The Writer
is a monthly magazine to interest and help all literary workers. It was started in 1887, and is now (1894) in its seventh volume. The Writer is unique—the only magazine in the world devoted solely to explaining the practical details of literary work. Its remarkable success shows that such a periodical was needed, and that The Writer exactly supplies the need.
The Writer aims:—
To be helpful, interesting, and instructive to all literary workers.
To give plain and practical hints, helps, and suggestions about preparing and editing manuscript.
To collect and publish the experiences, experiments, and observations of literary people, for the benefit of all writers.
To note improved methods and labor-saving devices for literary workers.
To discuss in a practical way interesting questions of etymology, grammar, rhetoric, or verse-making.
To print entertaining personal articles by and about noted literary people.
To record the important news of the literary world.
To aid young writers in reaching the public, by advising them how to make their copy salable.
To be of value to the writers of sermons, lectures, letters; to the student of language; to the lover of literature; to all, in brief, who write for the newspaper, the magazine, or the book-publisher.
Beginners and expert writers alike will find The Writer valuable. For beginners each number of the magazine is a practical guide and help, teaching them how to make their work better and more profitable, and even the most skilful writer can learn something from the experiences of other writers related in its pages. Such an interesting and useful series of articles about the details of literary production as the six bound volumes of the magazine contain has never been printed elsewhere.
The price of The Writer is ten cents a number, or one dollar a year. A sample copy will be mailed for ten cents; no sample copies will be sent free. The subscriptions of all who write or who are interested in literary work are respectfully solicited. Address:—
THE WRITER PUBLISHING CO.,
282 Washington st. (Rooms 9 and 10),
P. O. Box 1905. Boston, Mass.
IF YOU WRITE, USE
"Goodrich" Penholders
The very best for prose and poetry, and quite satisfactory for acknowledging receipt of publishers' checks.
Bear in mind the name, GOODRICH, Akron, Ohio.
LITERARY FOLKS SHOULD USE
"Goodrich" Erasers
AND
Rubber Bands.
Always satisfactory and very conducive to choice gems of thought.
ALL DEALERS KEEP THEM.
Don't forget the name,
GOODRICH, Akron, Ohio.
THE WRITER'S
LITERARY BUREAU
(Established in 1887)
gives frank and honest advice to writers of MSS. on any subject, sells MSS. on commission, revises MSS., makes typewritten copies if desired, and directs MSS. into their proper channels—fulfils, in short, every function required between author and editor or publisher. The Writer's Literary Bureau and its work are known in every publication office in the country. In the seven years of its existence the Bureau has acquired an enviable reputation for ability, honesty, promptness, painstaking, and trustworthy judgment. It refers to editors everywhere.
The number of writers who know where to find the best market for their productions is exceedingly limited. Such a knowledge implies a long and familiar acquaintance with periodical literature.
A manuscript, to be acceptable, must fit the publication to which it is offered as a glove to the hand. If it does not, the editor will decline it as "unsuitable," usually adding that "this does not necessarily imply lack of merit."
It occasionally happens that an article, otherwise acceptable, is refused because at one or two points it fails to meet requirements.
The editor seldom cares to make necessary explanations in such cases, and therefore simply "begs leave to decline with thanks."
It was with a view to rendering much-needed assistance to authors in marketing their manuscripts that The Writer's Literary Bureau was organized in September, 1887, under the management of a gentleman who for many years had been connected with one of our largest publishing houses. The enterprise has prospered and developed, until now the Bureau is prepared, and offers, to undertake every sort of work between author and publisher.