HARRISON: HOW WRITE FOR MAGAZINES_p1

by Charles H. Harrison

This book serves as a practical guide to the basic tools of magazine article knowing the marketplace, brainstorming, researching, querying editors, and writing to get published. Offers readers a step-by-step methodology to writing for magazines, including significant coverage of trade, professional, and Web magazines. Readers will learn to master the basics of magazine article writing through hands-on exercises and commentary from current and successful magazine writers and editors. Unique Trade and professional magazine coverage provides readers with information on this large and important segment of the industry that is often ignored in other books. Readers also receive important insights into the "dos" and "don'ts" of writing from editors who work with staff and freelance writers everyday. Anyone interested in a career in professional writing, with emphasis on Professional and Trade Magazines.

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2001

Reviews

[Brent Barnhart]

Read this for a magazine writing class. Despite the fact that it's a bit aged, Harrison really sems to acknowledge the idea that people need to learn to freelance and that getting a fancy magazine editorship is basically a pipe dream. Expensive, but a pretty good look into journalism and how to shape your articles towards specific sorts of publication. Also has some important bits about cover letters which is something that seems to draw a lot of conflicting opinions among writers.