This indispensable guide for writers provides details of hundreds of literary agents, book publishers, and magazines; including contact details, types of material accepted, and how to approach them!    Subject indexes for each area provide easy access to the markets you need, with specific lists for everything from romance publishers, to poetry magazines, to literary agents interested in thrillers.   It also provides unparalleled access to international markets. The internet has made the publishing industry more global than ever, with markets increasingly accepting submissions by email (some no longer accept postal submissions at all). Other directories have failed to respond to this, continuing to focus on one single country, but this directory provides you with that all-important access to overseas opportunities that are now just an email away.   And by focusing exclusively on what’s important to writers – contact details for literary agents, publishers, and magazines – this directory is able to provide more listings at a lower price. There are no adverts, no advertorials, and no unnecessary articles or obscure listings padding out hundreds of pages. Two established alternative directories both run to over 800 pages, yet one has only 204 pages of publisher, agent, and magazine listings, and the other has only 10 pages devoted to literary agent listings! This book does better on both counts, and yet remains substantially cheaper than either alternative.   The book also allows you to create a subscription to the firstwriter.com website for free until 2015. This means you can get free access to the firstwriter.com website, where you can find even more listings, and also benefit from other features such as advanced searches, daily email updates, feedback from users about the markets featured, saved searches, competitions listings, searchable personal notes, and more.

The firstwriter.com Writers' Handbook 2014

Reference

Dyson, J. Paul

Catalogs & Directories

JP&A Dyson

This indispensable directory is a must-have for anyone wanting to make it in the music industry! It gives you:  • Contact details for hundreds of record labels • Hundreds of music managers • Indexes by genre, so you can quickly find all the right listings • Access to overseas markets  It also provides free access to the entire current databases online, including over 1,300 record labels, and over 800 managers, with dozens of new and updated listings every month. Your free subscription can be taken out at any time until 2015, and comes packed with all the following features:   Advanced search features   • Save searches and save time – set up to 15 search parameters specific to your work, save them, and then access the search results with a single click whenever you log in. You can even save multiple different searches if you have different types of work you are looking to place.   • Add personal notes to listings, visible only to you and fully searchable – helping you to organise your actions.   • Set reminders on listings to notify you when to submit your work, when to follow up, when to expect a reply, or any other custom action.   • Track which listings you’ve viewed and when, to help you organise your search – any listings which have changed since you last viewed them will be highlighted for your attention!    Daily email updates     As a subscriber you will be able to take advantage of our email alert service, meaning you can specify your particular interests and we’ll send you automatic email updates when we change or add a listing that matches them. So if you’re interested in labels dealing in hard rock in the United States you can have us send you emails with the latest updates about them – keeping you up to date without even having to log in.    User feedback     Our databases include a user feedback feature that allows our subscribers to leave feedback on each listing – giving you not only the chance to have your say about the markets you contact, but giving a unique artist’s perspective on the listings.    Save on copyright protection fees     If you’re sending your work away to record labels and managers you should first consider protecting your copyright. As a subscriber to MusicSocket you can do this through our site and save 10% on the copyright registration fees normally payable for protecting your work internationally through the Intellectual Property Rights Office (http://www.CopyrightRegistrationService.com).

The MusicSocket.com Music Industry Directory 2014

Business & Money

Industries

This indispensable directory is a must-have for anyone wanting to make it in the music industry! It gives you:• Hundreds of record labels• Hundreds of music managers• Indexes by genre, so you can quickly find all the right listings• Access to overseas marketsIt also provides free access to the entire current databases online, including over 1,400 record labels, and over 900 managers, with dozens of new and updated listings every month. Your free subscription can be taken out at any time until 2016, and comes packed with all the following features:Advanced search features•Save searches and save time – set up to 15 search parameters specific to your work, save them, and then access the search results with a single click whenever you log in. You can even save multiple different searches if you have different types of work you are looking to place.•Add personal notes to listings, visible only to you and fully searchable – helping you to organise your actions.•Set reminders on listings to notify you when to submit your work, when to follow up, when to expect a reply, or any other custom action.•Track which listings you’ve viewed and when, to help you organise your search – any listings which have changed since you last viewed them will be highlighted for your attention! Daily email updates As a subscriber you will be able to take advantage of our email alert service, meaning you can specify your particular interests and we’ll send you automatic email updates when we change or add a listing that matches them. So if you’re interested in labels dealing in hard rock in the United States you can have us send you emails with the latest updates about them – keeping you up to date without even having to log in. User feedback Our databases include a user feedback feature that allows our subscribers to leave feedback on each listing – giving you not only the chance to have your say about the markets you contact, but giving a unique artist’s perspective on the listings. Save on copyright protection fees If you’re sending your work away to record labels and managers you should first consider protecting your copyright. As a subscriber to MusicSocket you can do this through our site and save 10% on the copyright registration fees normally payable for protecting your work internationally through the Intellectual Property Rights Office (http://www.CopyrightRegistrationService.com).

The MusicSocket.com Music Industry Directory 2015

Arts & Photography

Music

This indispensable directory is a must-have for anyone wanting to make it in the music industry. It gives you:  • Hundreds of record labels • Hundreds of music managers • Indexes by genre, so you can quickly find all the right listings • Access to overseas markets  It also provides free access to the entire current databases online, including over 1,400 record labels, and over 900 managers, with dozens of new and updated listings every month. Your free subscription comes packed with all the following features: Advanced search features • Save searches and save time – set up to 15 search parameters specific to your work, save them, and then access the search results with a single click whenever you log in. You can even save multiple different searches if you have different types of work you are looking to place. • Add personal notes to listings, visible only to you and fully searchable – helping you to organise your actions. • Set reminders on listings to notify you when to submit your work, when to follow up, when to expect a reply, or any other custom action. • Track which listings you’ve viewed and when, to help you organise your search – any listings which have changed since you last viewed them will be highlighted for your attention.  Daily email updates   As a subscriber you will be able to take advantage of our email alert service, meaning you can specify your particular interests and we’ll send you automatic email updates when we change or add a listing that matches them. So if you’re interested in labels dealing in hard rock in the United States you can have us send you emails with the latest updates about them – keeping you up to date without even having to log in.  User feedback   Our databases include a user feedback feature that allows our subscribers to leave feedback on each listing – giving you not only the chance to have your say about the markets you contact, but giving a unique artist’s perspective on the listings.  Save on copyright protection fees   If you’re sending your work away to record labels and managers you should first consider protecting your copyright. As a subscriber to MusicSocket you can do this through our site and save 10% on the copyright registration fees normally payable for protecting your work internationally through the Intellectual Property Rights Office (http://www.Copyright RegistrationService.com).

The MusicSocket.com Music Industry Directory 2016

This indispensable directory is a must-have for anyone wanting to make it in the music industry. It gives you: • Hundreds of record labels • Hundreds of music managers • Indexes by genre, so you can quickly find all the right listings • Access to overseas markets It also provides free access to the entire current databases online, including over 1,500 record labels, and over 1,000 managers, with dozens of new and updated listings every month. Your free subscription can be taken out at any time until 2018, and comes packed with all the following features: Advanced search features • Save searches and save time – set up to 15 search parameters specific to your work, save them, and then access the search results with a single click whenever you log in. You can even save multiple different searches if you have different types of work you are looking to place. • Add personal notes to listings, visible only to you and fully searchable – helping you to organise your actions. • Set reminders on listings to notify you when to submit your work, when to follow up, when to expect a reply, or any other custom action. • Track which listings you’ve viewed and when, to help you organise your search – any listings which have changed since you last viewed them will be highlighted for your attention. Daily email updates As a subscriber you will be able to take advantage of our email alert service, meaning you can specify your particular interests and we’ll send you automatic email updates when we change or add a listing that matches them. So if you’re interested in labels dealing in hard rock in the United States you can have us send you emails with the latest updates about them – keeping you up to date without even having to log in. User feedback Our databases include a user feedback feature that allows our subscribers to leave feedback on each listing – giving you not only the chance to have your say about the markets you contact, but giving a unique artist’s perspective on the listings. Save on copyright protection fees If you’re sending your work away to record labels and managers you should first consider protecting your copyright. As a subscriber to MusicSocket you can do this through our site and save 10% on the copyright registration fees normally payable for protecting your work internationally through the Intellectual Property Rights Office (https://www.CopyrightRegistrationService.com).

The MusicSocket.com Music Industry Directory 2017

This indispensable directory is a must-have for anyone wanting to make it in the music industry. It gives you:• Hundreds of record labels• Hundreds of music managers• Indexes by genre, so you can quickly find all the right listings• Access to overseas marketsIt also provides free access to the entire current databases online, including over 1,700 record labels, and over 1,100 managers, with dozens of new and updated listings every month. Your free subscription can be taken out at any time until 2019, and comes packed with all the following features:Advanced search features•Save searches and save time – set up to 15 search parameters specific to your work, save them, and then access the search results with a single click whenever you log in. You can even save multiple different searches if you have different types of work you are looking to place.•Add personal notes to listings, visible only to you and fully searchable – helping you to organise your actions.•Set reminders on listings to notify you when to submit your work, when to follow up, when to expect a reply, or any other custom action.•Track which listings you’ve viewed and when, to help you organise your search – any listings which have changed since you last viewed them will be highlighted for your attention. Daily email updates As a subscriber you will be able to take advantage of our email alert service, meaning you can specify your particular interests and we’ll send you automatic email updates when we change or add a listing that matches them. So if you’re interested in labels dealing in hard rock in the United States you can have us send you emails with the latest updates about them – keeping you up to date without even having to log in. User feedback Our databases include a user feedback feature that allows our subscribers to leave feedback on each listing – giving you not only the chance to have your say about the markets you contact, but giving a unique artist’s perspective on the listings. Save on copyright protection fees If you’re sending your work away to record labels and managers you should first consider protecting your copyright. As a subscriber to MusicSocket you can do this through our site and save 10% on the copyright registration fees normally payable for protecting your work internationally through the Intellectual Property Rights Office (https://www.CopyrightRegistrationService.com).

The MusicSocket.com Music Industry Directory 2018

The 2020 edition of firstwriter.com’s bestselling directory for writers is the perfect book for anyone searching for literary agents, book publishers, or magazines. It contains over 1,300 listings, including revised and updated listings from the 2019 edition, and over 400 brand new entries. • 80 pages of literary agent listings – that’s nearly as much as the Writer’s Market (53 pages) and the Writers’ &amp; Artists’ Yearbook (39 pages) combined! • 100 pages of book publisher listings, compared to just 91 pages in the Writers’ &amp; Artists’ Yearbook. • 88 pages of magazine listings – over 35% more than the 63 pages in the Writers’ &amp; Artists’ Yearbook. All in a book that is 40% cheaper than the Writer’s Market ($29.99 RRP), and more than 50% cheaper than the Writers’ &amp; Artists’ Yearbook (£25.00 RRP). Subject indexes for each area provide easy access to the markets you need, with specific lists for everything from romance publishers, to poetry magazines, to literary agents interested in thrillers. International markets become more accessible than ever, with listings that cover both the main publishing centres of New York and London, as well as markets in other English speaking countries. With more and more agents, publishers, and magazines accepting submissions online, this international outlook is now more important than ever. There are no adverts, no advertorials, and no obscure listings padding out hundreds of pages. By including only what’s important to writers – contact details for literary agents, publishers, and magazines – this directory is able to provide more listings than its competitors, at a substantially lower price. The book also allows you to create a subscription to the firstwriter.com website for free until 2021. This means you can get free access to the firstwriter.com website, where you can find even more listings, and also benefit from other features such as advanced searches, daily email updates, feedback from users about the markets featured, saved searches, competitions listings, searchable personal notes, and more. “I know firsthand how lonely and dispiriting trying to find an agent and publisher can be. So it's great to find a resource like firstwriter.com that provides contacts, advice and encouragement to aspiring writers. I've been recommending it for years now!”~ Robin Wade; literary agent at the Wade &amp; Doherty Literary Agency Ltd, and long-term firstwriter.com subscriber

Writers' Handbook 2020

The MusicSocket.com Music Industry Directory 2020

The 2021 edition of firstwriter.com’s bestselling directory for writers returns in a new, larger format, with more than twice as many listings of literary agents, literary agencies, book publishers, and magazines. It now contains over 3,000 listings, including revised and updated listings from the 2020 edition, and over 2,000 brand new entries. Finding the information you need is now quicker and easier than ever before, with new tables and an expanded index, and unique paragraph numbers to help you get to the listings you’re looking for. A variety of new tables help you navigate the listings in different ways, including a new Table of Authors, which lists over 3,000 authors and tells you who represents them, or who publishes them, or both. The number of genres in the index has exploded from under 100 in the last edition to over 500 in this one. So, for example, while there was only one option for “Romance” in the previous edition, you can now narrow this down to Historical Romance, Fantasy Romance, Supernatural / Paranormal Romance, Contemporary Romance, Diverse Romance, Erotic Romance, Feminist Romance, Christian Romance, or even Amish Romance. The new edition includes:• 128 pages of literary agent and literary agency listings – that’s more than the Writer’s Market (75 pages) and the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook (39 pages) combined! • 82 pages of book publisher listings, compared to 91 pages in the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook – but with a page size more than 70% larger this is like getting an extra 50 pages. • 64 pages of magazine listings compared to 63 pages in the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook. Thanks to the difference in page size, this is the equivalent of 40 extra pages. All in a book that is 30% cheaper than the Writer’s Market ($29.99 RRP), and 50% cheaper than the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook (£25.00 RRP).International markets become more accessible than ever, with listings that cover both the main publishing centres of New York and London, as well as markets in other English speaking countries. With more and more agents, publishers, and magazines accepting submissions online, this international outlook is now more important than ever. There are no adverts, no advertorials, and no obscure listings padding out hundreds of pages. By including only what’s important to writers – contact details for literary agents, publishers, and magazines – this directory is able to provide more listings than its competitors, at a substantially lower price. The book also allows you to create a subscription to the firstwriter.com website for free until 2022. This means you can get free access to the firstwriter.com website, where you can find even more listings, and also benefit from other features such as advanced searches, daily email updates, feedback from users about the markets featured, saved searches, competitions listings, searchable personal notes, and more. “I know firsthand how lonely and dispiriting trying to find an agent and publisher can be. So it's great to find a resource like firstwriter.com that provides contacts, advice and encouragement to aspiring writers. I've been recommending it for years now!”~ Robin Wade; literary agent at the Wade & Doherty Literary Agency Ltd, and long-term firstwriter.com subscriber

Writers' Handbook 2021

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

The 2022 edition of firstwriter.com’s bestselling directory for writers is the perfect book for anyone searching for literary agents, book publishers, or magazines. It contains over 2,500 listings, including revised and updated listings from the 2021 edition, and over 400 brand new entries.\nFinding the information you need is now quicker and easier than ever before, with multiple tables and a detailed index, and unique paragraph numbers to help you get to the listings you’re looking for.\nThe variety of tables helps you navigate the listings in different ways, and includes a Table of Authors, which lists over 3,000 authors and tells you who represents them, or who publishes them, or both.\nThe number of genres in the index has expanded to over 600. So, for example, while there was only one option for “Romance” in the previous edition, you can now narrow this down to Historical Romance, Fantasy Romance, Supernatural / Paranormal Romance, Contemporary Romance, Diverse Romance, Erotic Romance, Feminist Romance, Christian Romance, or even Amish Romance.\nAll this and more in a book that is 30% cheaper than the Writer’s Market ($30.00 RRP), and 50% cheaper than the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook (£27.50 RRP).\nInternational markets become more accessible than ever, with listings that cover both the main publishing centres of New York and London, as well as markets in other English speaking countries. With more and more agents, publishers, and magazines accepting submissions online, this international outlook is now more important than ever.\nThere are no adverts, no advertorials, and no obscure listings padding out hundreds of pages. By including only what’s important to writers – contact details for literary agents, publishers, and magazines – this directory is able to provide more listings than its competitors, at a substantially lower price.\nThe book also allows you to create a subscription to the firstwriter.com website for free until 2023. This means you can get free access to the firstwriter.com website, where you can find even more listings, and also benefit from other features such as advanced searches, daily email updates, feedback from users about the markets featured, saved searches, competitions listings, searchable personal notes, and more.\n“I know firsthand how lonely and dispiriting trying to find an agent and publisher can be. So it's great to find a resource like firstwriter.com that provides contacts, advice and encouragement to aspiring writers. I've been recommending it for years now!” 
~ Robin Wade; literary agent at the Wade & Doherty Literary Agency Ltd, and long-term firstwriter.com subscriber

Writers' Handbook 2022

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