publishers and publishing

Tips for teachers or writers wanting to get published. Covers magazines, books and journals. Includes media and market lists.

Describes the stages in making a book, starting with the writing of the manuscript and the drawing of the pictures, and explaining all the technical processes leading to printed and bound copies.

Hugh Person, a young publisher sent to interview Mr. R. in Switzerland, falls in love with Armande, whom he steals from a Scandinavian and brings back to New York, and eight years later, after a murder and period of insanity, Hugh returns to Switzerland to figure out his past.

A biography of DeWitt and Lila Wallace, founders of "Reader's Digest" and philanthropists who donated the majority of their vast fortune to worthy causes.

After the untimely death of Charles Dickens, his American publisher, Fields & Osgood, sends a trusted clerk to recover the manuscript of Dicken's last unfinished novel, but when the clerk is found dead on the docks without the manuscript, James Osgood decides to make the voyage to England, with the clerk's older sister Rebecca in tow, only to pick up the trail of a murderer.

Rival newspaper printers in Crackle Creek are brought together by an emergency.

Chronicles the life of the madcap founder of the popular humor magazine which featured the motto "What? Me worry?" and a character named Alfred E. Neuman.

Presents the life and accomplishments of the black entrepreneur who started "Ebony" magazine.

An autobiography of "Washington Post" owner Katharine Graham in which she recounts the inside story of her family, discusses the history of the newspaper, and tells about some of the important people she encountered and exciting events she weathered as head of the newspaper, including the publishing of Pentagon Papers and Watergate.

Lists hundreds of children's book and magazine publishers and agents for writers and illustrators, each with contact information and details on submissions; and includes related articles and interviews, as well as publishing tips.