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For all authors out there, aspiring or otherwise..

Advantages: Packed full of useful information
Disadvantages: None at all

As there is no heading for The Writer’s Handbook 2002, I have placed it under 2000; surely it will be updated at some point. The Writer’s Handbook 2002 is a complete reference guide for writers, journalists, publishers, editors, screenwriters and broad ...

Kes30 03.03.2002 · Read full review
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Stand back...this thing is big

Advantages: There isn't anything creative that this book does not cover
Disadvantages: It is a big one and can be a little daunting.

Everybody has a book in them, it’s a well-known saying, but what about if you have a poem, or a short story, or a magazine article, or even an encyclopaedia, what do you do then? Well my recommendation would be that you run along to your nearest boo ...

Lizzii 09.02.2001 · Read full review
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the write stuff

Advantages: Very Comprehensive
Disadvantages: spoilt for choice

...As a writer I need to know where to target the things I write and consequently I need a reference book to guide me to those targets. Enter Writers Handbook 2001 stage left. A comprehensive tome which not only lists all the relevant contacts a writer w ...

w1ldrover 27.02.2001 · Read full review
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A must for all writers

Advantages: full of useful information
Disadvantages: none really

...This is an opinion of the new 2001 edition of the Writers Handbook. If you are a writer or would like to be a writer, then this is book is a pretty good starting point. It is a reference book that every kind of writer, Fiction,Non fiction, screenwriter ...

bottles 19.11.2000 · Read full review
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Writer's Handbook "Best of Breed"

Advantages: The best of its kind
Disadvantages: None

The book costs £13.99 but can be bought for less at Amazon. This review is on the current edition of this book. To borrow a phrase form the world of dog shows, The writer's Handbook is indeed the 'best of breed.' There are other books that contain s ...

Martinscholes 11.09.2005 · Read full review
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