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Writer’s Digest [May 1934]
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Writing for the Pulps · Joseph T. Shaw · ar

Writer’s Digest [October 1934]
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Writing for Ten Detective Aces · August Lenniger · ar

Writer’s Digest [March 1935]
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A Million Words a Month [Mort Weisinger] · Leo Margulies · iv

Writer’s Digest [v15 #5, April 1935] ed. Richard K. Abbott (Writer’s Digest Publishing Co., 20¢, 64pp+, digest)
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4 · [letter] · Fanny Ellsworth · lt
11 · [letter] · Erle Stanley Gardner · lt
13 · Advice to Novelists · Pearl S. Buck · ar
19 · Poor Proud Guys · Jack Byrne · ar
23 · New York Markets · Harriet A. Bradfield · cl
27 · A Young Man Breaks In · Jean Francis Webb · ar
30 · A Beginner Writes · Russell Tatum · ar
32 · A Fiction Trick Explained · Narleen Thornes · ar
34 · Adventures in Collaboration · Newman Levy · ar
38 · ...More Than Norman Blood · Fleming Healy · ar
53 · The Book Publishers · August Lenniger · cl

Writer’s Digest [May 1935]
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Mellow Drama · Richard Sale · ss

Writer’s Digest [January 1937]
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The Detective Fiction Market · Lurton Blassingame · ar

Writer’s Digest [June 1937]
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Quantity Production · Arthur J. Burks · ar

Writer’s Digest [June 1939]
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Dialogue · Joseph T. Shaw · ar

Writer’s Digest [August 1939]
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They Wanted “Horror” · Erle Stanley Gardner · ar
Two Cents a Word for All You Can Write! · Ralph Daigh · ar
Writer’s Market · Anon. · ms

Writer’s Digest [June 1940]
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Could a Pulp Sell for Five Cents? · James W. Egan · ar

Writer’s Digest [November 1940]
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Farewell to Bang! Bang! · J.-J. des Ormeaux · ar
The First Thousand Words · Nelson Bond · ar

Writer’s Digest [January 1941]
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Improving the Detective Novel · Frank Gruber · ar

Writer’s Digest [March 1941]
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A Million Words a Year for Ten Straight Years · Walter B. Gibson · ar

Writer’s Digest [May 1941]
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The Evolution of the Western · Rogers Terrill · ar

Writer’s Digest [August 1941]
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Who Killed Cock Robin? · Henry Kuttner · ar

Writer’s Digest [October 1942]
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Synopses Without Sorrow · Frederick C. Davis · ar

Writer’s Digest [May 1943]
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The Turn from the Trite · G. T. Fleming-Roberts · ar

Writer’s Digest [March 1961]
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"Sorry, But—" · Neal Barrett, Jr. · vi

Writer’s Digest [v98 #6, September 2018] ed. Tyler Moss
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46 · The WD Interview: Jacqueline Woodson · Jera Brown · iv

Writer’s Digest [v98 #7, October 2018] ed. Tyler Moss
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8 · State of Wonder [Jeff VanderMeer] · Tyler Moss · iv
42 · The WD Interview: Curtis Sittenfeld · Baihley Gentry · iv

Writer’s Digest [November/December 2018] ed. Tyler Moss
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18 · Language Arts (Christina Dalcher) · Baihley Gentry · iv
44 · The WD Interview: James Patterson · Bobbi Dempsey · iv

Writer’s Digest [January 2019] ed. Tyler Moss
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8 · Character Study [Walter Mosley] · Tyler Moss · iv

Writer’s Digest [February 2019] ed. Tyler Moss
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20 · Through the Looking Glass · Diana M. Pho · ar
34 · Changing the Face of Crime Fiction · David Corbett · iv
40 · The WD Interview: Cassandra Clare · Jess Zafarris · iv

Writer’s Digest [March/April 2019] ed. Tyler Moss
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42 · The WD Interview: Min Jin Lee · Amy Jones · iv

Writer’s Digest [May/June 2019] ed. Ericka McIntyre
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46 · The WD Interview: N.K. Jemisin · Jera Brown · iv

The Writer’s Monthly

The Writer’s Monthly [September 1926]
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The Purpose of Fiction · Vinton A. Holbrook · ar
An Interview with with AE · Katherine Edelman · iv
The Art of Safe-Breaking · John Missenden · ar
Sales Letters As a Side Line · Austin E. Burges · ar
Opinions Differ · Omer Henry · ar
Sense and Censorship · Margaret Wentworth · ar

Writer’s Year Book

Writer’s Year Book [1931] ed. Aron M. Mathieu (Writer’s Digest, 35¢, 64pp+, 8¼" x 11¼")
Full title is The Writer’s 1931 Year Book & Market Guide. Details supplied by John Locke.

5 · We Must Have New Writers · H. N. Swanson · ar; editor of College Humor.
6 · The Settin’ Down Job · Upton Sinclair · ar
7 · How to Write Book Length Mystery Stories · Harry Stephen Keeler · ar
8 · An Interview with Anne Douglas Sedgwick · Dale Warren · ar
9 · The Detective Story—How Not to Write It · Carolyn Wells · ar
11 · Are Sidelines Helpful? · Ellis Parker Butler · ar
13 · Manuscript Needs of Doubleday Doran Pulp Paper Magazines · Roy de S. Horn · lt
14 · The Editorial Requirements of Every Fiction Magazine · Anon. · ar
19 · A Story of the Newspaper · Dr. F. H. Vizetelly · ar
22 · On How to Write a Poem · Vachel Lindsay · pm
24 · Our Quality Magazines and What They Buy · Anon. · ar
24 · Carrie · McCready Huston · ss Harper’s Magazine Feb 1931
29 · The Bread and Wine of a Literary Career · Frances Parkinson Keyes · ar
31 · The Plot’s the Thing · Wallace Irwin · ar
33 · The Strange Art of Poet Writing · M. M. Conlon · ar; editor of Popular Poetry.
35 · What an Editor Really Thinks · Carson Mowre · ar; executive editor, Dell Publishing.
37 · Write with Simplicity · Albert Payson Terhune · ar
39 · My Writing Creed · Jim Tully · ar
41 · Turning the Corner · Erle Stanley Gardner · ar
44 · Get Out of Step · Jack Woodford · ar
47 · What’s Your Imagination For? · Eric Howard · ar
50 · Slanting · Anon. · ar
52 · What Value Is the Agent? · August Lenniger · ar

Writer’s Year Book [v1 #13, 1942] ed. Aron M. Mathieu (Writer’s Digest, 50¢, 112pp)
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4 · First Novel · Kenneth S. Davis · ar
12 · Chain Publishers - Their Titles · Harriet A. Bradfield · cl
17 · The 50 Best Markets · Anon. · ms
18 · Action Stuff! · E. Hoffmann Price · ar
23 · Writer’s Quiz · Robert Fleisher · ar
28 · The “Villians” Graveyard [Chuck Martin] · Don M. Paul · bg
32 · Crash the Comics · Abner Sundell · ar
38 · The Fundementals of Fiction Writing · Will Herman · ar
46 · The Juvenile Market List · Anon. · ms
48 · Kiddin’ on the Keys · Charles McCormack · ar
61 · The Editors of Collier’s Revise a Story · The Collier’s Editors · ar
62 · Teacher’s Pet · Jack Macmurragh · vi Collier’s Apr 5 1941
70 · My Last Million Readers · Emile Gauvreau · nv; condensed.
bc. · The Professor Takes His Shirt Off · Thomas H. Uzzell · ar

Writer’s Year Book [v1 #14, 1943] ed. Aron M. Mathieu (Writer’s Digest, 50¢, 112pp)
Details supplied by Tom Daniels.

4 · War and the Escape Writer · Joel Townsley Rogers · ar
9 · Cartoon Markets · Charles McCormack · cl
14 · A Choice of Ten · James Hilton · ar
18 · To Writers with Love · Arthur Leo Zagat · ar
24 · Chain Publishers and Titles · Harriet A. Bradfield · cl
28 · Get in There and Love · Moses Schere · ar
33 · First Page Signals · Charles Strong · ar
38 · Sawing an Author in Two · Beth Brown · nv
52 · A Method of Blueprinting · Jane Littell · ar
57 · Slick Paper Demands · Albert Richard Wetjen · ar
60 · Typewriter! - Handle with Care · Andrew Cerruti · ar
61 · Sweat Makes the Writer · James Kjelgaard · ar
71 · The 100 Best Markets · Harriet A. Bradfield · cl
81 · The Editor Accepts · Earl Reed Silvers · nv
bc. · The Best Help at Lowest Cost · Thomas H. & Camelia W. Uzzell · ar

Writer’s Year Book [v1 #15, 1944] ed. Aron M. Mathieu (Writer’s Digest, 50¢, 120pp)
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4 · Dear Writers · Edward Aswell · ar
14 · Once Over Not So Lightly · Michael Tilden · ar
23 · Nomination for the Best Piece of Reporting of World War II · Anon. · ms
24 · How to Write Better Dialogue · Johnston McCulley · ar
30 · The 100 Best Paying Markets · Harriet A. Bradfield · cl
42 · Chain Publishers · Anon. · cl
48 · My Art Belongs to Dali · Charles McCormack · ar
54 · Country Cured · Homer Croy · n.
116 · It’s Easier to Tear Down a Barn · Howard Bloomfield · ar
bc. · Intellectual Curiosity · Thomas H. & Camelia W. Uzzell · ar

Writer’s Year Book [v1 #16, 1945] ed. Aron M. Mathieu (Writer’s Digest, 50¢, 116pp)
Details supplied by Tom Daniels.

4 · What Makes the Action Story Go · Lamont Buchanan · ar
10 · Road Map to a Novel · Pauline Brown · ar
14 · How to Plot · John Nanovie · ar
16 · The Carpentry of Writing · James H. S. Moynahan · ar
20 · Did I Really Write That! · Jean Francis Webb · ar
27 · From the Slush Deliver Me · Darrell Huff · ar
32 · The Chain Publishers and Their Titles · Anon. · cl
38 · The 100 Top Markets · Harriet A. Bradfield · cl
52 · All the Markets for Short-Short Stories · Anon. · ms
62 · Markets for Photographs · Anon. · ms
68 · Cartoon Markets · Charles McCormack · cl
80 · It’s Your Own Show · Tom Curry · bg
94 · What Every Young Character Should Know · Moses Schere · ar
96 · Ego Makes the Character Go · M. Scott Michel · ar
100 · How to Sell a Book · David Legerman · ar
108 · The Implacable Villain · Sgt. H. N. Oliphant · ss
bc. · Competent Criticism · Thomas H. & Camelia W. Uzzell · ar

Writer’s Year Book [v1 #18, June 1947] ed. Aron M. Mathieu (Writer’s Digest, 50¢, 152pp)
Details supplied by Tom Daniels.

4 · From Germ to Climax · Harold F. Cruickshank · ar
12 · Deductive Feature Writing · Emile C. Schurmacher · ar
15 · From Hook to Snapper · Alwyn W. Knight · ar
19 · How to Improve the Action Story · Allan K. Echols · ar
36 · The Technique of the Novel · Thomas H. Uzzell · ar
57 · Humor’s a Funny Thing · Anon. · ms
72 · The Chain Publishers and Their Titles · Anon. · cl
79 · How to Plot an Adventure Story · Louis L’Amour · ar
88 · Photo Markets · Anon. · ms
99 · Crime Does Not Pay—Enough · Lawrence Treat · ar
102 · Into the Looking Glass · Bernece Priddle · ss
116 · The Hundred Best Paying Magazine Markets · Anon. · ms
132 · 132 Reliable Short-Short Story Markets · Anon. · ms
140 · Writing and Selling Radio and Television Scripts · Helen Rowland · ar
148 · Radio and Television Markets · Anon. · ms
bc. · Critic or Agent? · Thomas H. & Camelia W. Uzzell · ar

Writer’s Year Book [v1 #19, May 1948] ed. Aron M. Mathieu (Writer’s Digest, 50¢, 152pp)
Details supplied by Tom Daniels.

4 · When the Bug Bites! · Frank Bennett · ar
12 · The Tiffany Touch · Maurice J. Phillips · ar
20 · 76 Lively Markets for Books · Pauline Bloom · ms
26 · The Slicks Change Their Tune · Rosamond du Jardin · ar
30 · A Skeleton Draped in Tulle · Mona Farnsworth · ar
35 · The Hundred Best Markets · Harriet A. Bradfield · ms
53 · The Chain Publishers and Their Titles · Anon. · cl
59 · Creating and Selling the Interview · Janice DeVine · ar
69 · Photo Markets · May Sullivan · ar
75 · Blueprint and Autobiography · Fannie Hurst · ar
78 · Diamonds in the Rough · Charles McCormack · ar
100 · Poet’s Road · Jessica North · ar
103 · Verse Markets · Anon. · ms
105 · Short-Short Story Markets · Ruth Jones · ar
117 · Paradise on $3.00 a Day · Anon. · ar
125 · Writing and Selling · Helen Rowland · ar
145 · Television Markets · Anon. · ms
bc. · Be a Writer and Make a Million · Thomas H. & Camelia W. Uzzell · ar

Writer’s Year Book [v1 #20, March 1949] ed. Aron M. Mathieu (Writer’s Digest, 50¢, 152pp)
Details supplied by Tom Daniels.

6 · In the Arms of the Muse · Fay Kenin · ar
8 · You Are Not Alone · Faith Baldwin · ar
12 · How to Become a Character · Louis L’Amour · ar
16 · The Hundred Best Markets · Harriet A. Bradfield · ms
38 · Dialect Is Dynamic · John W. Wilson · ar
40 · Lady, Your Sermon Is Showing · Will Herman · ar
47 · Markets for Juvenile Stories · Anon. · ms
53 · Murder with a Meaning · James Benét · ar
58 · Let’s Go to an Island · Will Lane, Carleton Mitchell, Ralph Ogden & Maria Eisner · ar
66 · My Personal Formula for the Magazine Article · Nat McKelvey · ar
70 · Markets for Articles · Anon. · ms
77 · 158 Short-Short Markets · Ruth Jones · ms
87 · Hitch It to a Horse · Robert W. Lowndes · ar
95 · The Chain Publishers · Harriet A. Bradfield · cl
102 · Flashback to Life · Merriam Modell · ar
106 · Radio & Television Marketing · Helen Rowland · ms
118 · Cartoons and Gags · Charles McCormack · ar

Writer’s Year Book [v1 #21, April 1950] ed. Aron M. Mathieu (Writer’s Digest, 50¢, 152pp)
Details supplied by Tom Daniels.

9 · Fleur Cowles · Mort Weisinger · ar
14 · Notes on Crime Writing · John Bartlow Martin · ar
20 · My Affair with Paris · Merwin Dembling · ss
30 · The 100 Best Markets · Harriet A. Bradfield · cl
52 · How to Write the Juvenile Book · Helen Diehl Olds · ar
63 · The Juvenile Book Publishers · Anon. · ms
66 · Try the Short-Short · Jake J. Ryan · ar
71 · 187 Short-Short Story Markets · Ruth Jones · ms
82 · Professionally Yours · John D. MacDonald · ar; given as by John B. MacDonald.
91 · Writing for TV · Max Ehrlich · ar
100 · The Chain Publishers and Their Titles · Harriet A. Bradfield · cl
108 · How to Write a Book · Emile Schurmacher · ar
113 · The Woodford Story [Jack Woodford] · Hy Kellick · bg
120 · What Kind of a Writer Are You? · Anon. · ms
125 · Where and How to Sell Cartoons · Charles McCormack · ar

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