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FREE LANCING FOR FORTY MAGAZINES

By Edward Mott Woolley

The author of a thousand published articles and stories lifts the curtain on the career of writing for publication.

A FEW OF THE CHAPTER SUBJECTS INCLUDE

THE URGE TO WRITE

EARLY BUFFETING IN CHICAGO

BREAKING INTO FICTION

I START TO WRITE MY WAY AROUND THE WORLD

CUB REPORTING IN SAN FRANCISCO

PACIFIC COAST EPISODES

NEWS REPORTING ON THE "HERALD"

REPORTING CRIME

CRIMINAL COURTS AND FICTION

WRITING FEATURES

PLUNGING IN FICTION

CHAOS AND BIG PLANS

SNARING EDITORS IN NEW YORK

BREAKING INTO "THE SATURDAY EVENING POST"

WRITING FOR "THE SATURDAY EVENING POST"

WRITING FOR FORTY MAGAZINES

BY-PRODUCTS AND CHANGING FASHIONS IN WRITING
METHODS IN WRITING AND MARKETING

A FEW EPISODES OF BOOK WRITING
LETTERS TO AND FROM EDITORS
ETHICS OF AUTHORS AND EDITORS

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OUR NEW DEPARTMENT
OF PROSE CRITICISM

will begin in the November issue

This new department is in charge of Mr. William M. Tanner, who is widely known through his courses in advanced writing in Boston University, and as editor of "Essays and Essay Writing" and "Modern Familiar Essays." Mr. Tanner will criticise various types of short prose articles, such as the brief familiar essay, book review, editorial, satire, or résumé biography. Any subscriber to THE WRITER desiring to submit articles (not exceeding one thousand words) for criticism may send them to Mr. Tanner in care of THE WRITER. Authors' names will not be mentioned in any article.

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The works of authors such as these show the Midas Touch.

That's why their stories appear

in the Golden Book.

WISTER

HARDY

CHEKHOV

CONRAD

THEOCRITUS

MONTAIGNE DU MAURIER BIERCE

EMERSON

DAUDET

STEVENSON
BALZAC

WILLA CATHER
O. HENRY
TOLSTOY

LEVER

MARK TWAIN

WHEN The trout ceased to be a

WHEN King Midas picked up his breakfast trout by

succulent fish, and became instead a museum piece, its gills and fins and shining skin of purest gold.

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That was the Golden Touch.

The Golden Touch of Midas has not vanished from the world. No author is great unless he possesses it. He must preserve his tiptoe moods; he must find the rainbow gold of his experience in the eternal gold of literature.

The Golden Book is the work of authors with the Midas Touch. To read the Golden Book is to catch the golden glimmer of life. It brings you a world transmuted by the mysterious alchemy of genius into everlasting beauty.

The GOLDEN BOOK MAGAZINE

contains the stories, plays, poems, essays, humour, philosophy and epigrams that are best worth reading and re-reading. The "Immortals" are there: the accepted masters, from Montaigne to Thackeray, will be found there. And the men of more recent times (Stevenson, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Owen Wister, O. Henry, and the like) whose work gives promise of permanence. A monthly feast of the things one ought to read and wants to read

With such material to choose from, the magazine could not help being truly entertaining. The Golden Book provides a range of entertainment attempted by no other magazine.

The Golden Book is performing a real service, just as great museums and universities do, in rescuing and preserving the things worth while for people who appreciate them. There is this difference: The Golden Book brings them to your home fresh and full of thrills each month, just when you are jaded with trivial movies, dramas and current fiction produced by the yard.

And, while being entertained, the reader of the Golden Book is constantly adding to his knowledge of literature and to his general culture by his contact with the beautiful and the fine. Unquestionably, The Golden Book educates while it entertains.

THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS CORPORATION, 55 Fifth Avenue, New York Please send the GOLDEN BOOK MAGAZINE for 5 months to the following. Inclosed find check for $1.00.

Name..

Address

City and State.

THE WRITER'S DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS (Continued)

exceeding 2,000 words, and technical articles, not exceeding 3,000 words. Buys photographs, and pays, at an average rate of three-fourths of a cent a word, on publication.

BATTERY MAN (M), Terre Haute, Ind. $1.00; 10c. M. A. Denny, editor.

Devoted to the automotive electrical and storage battery trade. Uses articles on these subjects, short stories, and serials. Sets length limit at 3,000 words, buys photographs, and pays, at a minimum rate of four dollars a page, on the fifteenth of the month.

BOSTONIAN (M), 24 T Wharf, Boston, Mass. $1.00; 10c. Katharine Crosby, editor.

Uses short, local, general articles, very short poetry, humorous verse, and jokes, but no fiction. Desires short, modern, brisk articles or essays on phases of Boston life, which may be critical or satirical, but which must not be ill-natured. Constructive material is preferred. Sets length limit at 1,200 words, does not buy photographs, and does not pay for manuscripts.

BRITISH AMERICAN (W), 542 South Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. $2.00; 5c. James C. McNally, editor.

Uses general articles of British-American interest, poetry, humorous verse, and jokes, but no fiction. Articles should be crisp and informative, advocating closer relations of English-speaking nations. Buys few photographs, and does not pay for manuscripts at present.

EAGLE SCOUT MAGAZINE (M), 779 Twelfth ave.,
San Francisco, Calif. $1.00; 10c. William F.
White, editor.

First number not yet issued. To be published in the interests of Eagle Scouts. Wants general articles dealing with subjects of interest to normal boys between the ages of fifteen and twenty, preferring those with an Eagle Scouting or boy achievement interest. Uses general articles, poetry, and humorous verse, but no fiction, and no jokes. Sets length limit at 1,500 words, does not buy photographs, and does not pay for manuscripts at present.

FRENCH HUMOR (W), 230 Fifth ave., New York. $4.00; 10c. Hugo Gernsack, editor.

All material, except contests, is imported from France.

LEATHERNECK (M), Marine Barracks, Washing

ton, D. C. $3.00; 25c.
editor.

Lt. Carl Gardner,

Devoted chiefly to war stories and humorous matter. Prints short stories, serials, and jokes, but no general articles, novelettes, plays, or verse. Sets length limit at 5,000 words, does not buy photographs, and pays on acceptance.

MISSIONARY (M), Apostolic Mission House,
Brookland, Washington, D. C. $3.00; 25c.
Rev. Lewis J. O'Hern, C. S. P., editor.

A Roman Catholic monthly, interested in unusual stories of conversions, and other stories with a Catholic tone, edifying in content, but not resting on this as their only excellence. Uses short stories, serials, and general articles, but no poetry, jokes, or juvenile matter. Sets length limit at from 1,500 to 2,500 words, does not buy photographs, and pays, at a uniform rate of one and one-half cents a word, on acceptance.

PIONEER (M), 113 Tradd st., Statesville, N. C. $1.00; 10c. Mrs. Sarah A. Heinzerling, editor.

Uses short stories, poetry, humorous verse, and little stories for children. Fiction should be light and entertaining, with a happy ending; nothing "mushy," gruesome, or "dirty" will be accepted. Sets length limit for adult fiction at 1,500 words; for children, at 750 words. Does not buy photographs, and pays on acceptance. Verse is paid for only by subscriptions to the magazine, and through prize contests.

PROGRESSIVE BAKER (M), 334 Pacific Building, San Francisco, Calif. $1.00; 15c. Debra Appelson, editor.

Use general articles on the bakery industry, and jokes, but no fiction, and no verse. Does not buy photographs, and does not pay for manuscripts.

WORLD UNITY (M), 4 East 12th st., New York. $3.50; 35c. John Herman Randall, editor; Horace Holley, managing editor.

Vol. I., No. 1-October, 1927. "A monthly magazine interpreting the spirit of the new age." Does not solicit articles of any description, but the editors will give their best attention to correspondence from any sources whatsoever representing articles and suggestions suitable for use in the magazine. The greater portion of the magazine's material is arranged in advance, the present staff of contributing editors being thirty-six.

The third printing of this Directory was begun in THE WRITER for March, 1927. Back numbers can be supplied. A set of the numbers from January, 1921, to December, 1926, giving the Directory complete, with additions and changes bringing everything up to date, and much other valuable matter, will be sent for five dollars; with a year's subscription added for eight dollars.

YOUR OPPORTUNITIES IN WRITING
First complete survey in book form
The

Free-Lance Writer's Handbook

If you are a well-established professional writer, you need the accurate, full and up-to-date, directory of the literary markets which this book offers you. You should be able to clear out many of your unsold manuscripts and find inspiration for work better suited to the changing tastes of the reading public. You will find indicated here revolutionary changes in writing and publishing, such as those brought about by new developments like radio and the screen.

If you are meeting only partial success through the occasional sale of manuscripts you will find it no less a boon. As you begin to show ability you have the right to expect advancement. Many writers lack only a good working knowledge of markets. Some very wisely are spending a year or so in some great publishing center like New York just to hear the "shop talk" of the authors' clubs and the editorial offices. But this method of education is expensive-and now there is less need for it. For it was precisely the purpose of the research which resulted in the publication of this book-to bring this hitherto unpublished information to light.

To writers of all types this book should be worth far more than its cost. The sale of a single manuscript will repay many times the outlay. The most blasè author recalls with a real thrill his first check, even if it was only for a small amount. This book will be responsible for many a first acceptance and many a promotion into the better-paying media.

Among the thirty-six contributors of chapters to this book, seven are editors, or managing editors, of general periodicals and special magazines of the writing craft and publishing trade, including the editors of The Bookman, The Writer, The Saturday Review of Literature, Life, and The Publisher's Weekly. Fourteen are successful shortstory writers; five are well-known novelists. Included also are the dean of American playwright-producers, the best known, publicity counsel, two college teachers of creative writing, a well-known war correspondent, advertising copy-writers and free-lance journalists, a radio broadcaster, an interviewer, a photographer, a specialist in juveniles, a scenario-writer, and experts in every conceivable special type of writing.

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