Combining how-to-write instruction with where-to-sell direction, this comprehensive guide is invaluable for science fiction and fantasy writers. Includes samples with editor's critiques and advice from established authors, more than 100 detailed market listings for magazines, dozens of listings for publishing houses, and information on related organizations, on-line services, and more.

Presents writing and marketing techniques, profiles of 84 mystery and crime booksellers, and literary agents, and in-depth market reports on 115 mystery book and magazine publishers.

Lists addresses and information on contacts, pay rates, and submission requirements, and includes essays on the craft of writing.

Contains a list of entries that provide potential markets for writers, covering magazines, publishers, syndicates, and contests, providing information on submission requirements, pay scale, freelance work, and listings of editors and agents.

Six novelists reveal their approaches to characterization in this guide, which comes with a questionnaire to help writers probe their characters' backgrounds, beliefs, and desires and a "thesaurus" of physical and psychological traits to aid in character development.