Provides up-to-date information about each publisher's preferences and current editorial needs. Pubications are organized according to kind of magazine; and also included is information on best markets for first-time writers and for unpublished writers; as well breakdowns of market categories.

"Eiji Nizuma announces that if he can top the Weekly Shonen Jump survey results for ten straight weeks, he will have one of the manga series in the magazine canceled. But which series does Eiji want to cancel? And what will Ashirogi and the other manga creators do to stop him?!"--P. [4] of cover.

Comic book legend Stan Lee shares tips on writing comic books, from creating characters and plot development to getting published.

Big eyes: Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings. The brave one: New York radio...

"Offers an instructional plan for plagiarism education for middle school and high school students, allowing librarians to become a resource for students, teachers, and school administrators"--

This is the First Complete modern edition of The Female Marine, a fictional cross-dressing trilogy originally published between 1815 and 1818. Enormously popular among the New England readers, the tale in various versions appeared in no fewer than nineteen editions over that brief four-year span. This new edition appends three other contemporary accounts of cross-dressing and urban vice which, together with The Female Marine, provide a unique portrayal...

Autobiography of author Peter Kuper's alter ego, Walter Kurtz in a "coming-of-middle-age" novel. Illustrator, cartoonist, educator and lecturer; Kurtz helped redefine the medium of comics and usher in the explosion of interest in the graphic novel.

Presents interviews with fifteen well-known children's writers, including Judy Blume, Karen Cushman, Russell Freedman, James Howe, Lois Lowry, Gary Paulsen, and Laurence Yep.