Your Name in Print: A Teen's Guide to Publishing for Fun, Profit and Academic Success

Make Your Mark

Looking for a way to express yourself? Need some extra spending money? Do you want to beef up that college application package? Look no further than this book.
With advice on how to write newspaper and magazine features, Web blogs, music and movie reviews, novels, graphic novels, short stories, and more, the father-daughter team of Timothy and Elizabeth Harper shows that it's possible for anyone who writes well to get published.
Topics include:

- How to find subjects to write about
- Learning productive research and writing habits
- Identifying the best market for your work
- Managing your career
- And so much more

With practical information on every step of the writing process, writing samples, personal anecdotes, tips from the pros, profiles on young authors such as Christopher Paolini and Zoe Trope, and a resource section, Your Name in Print has all the tools and advice young writers need to break into the writing world.

Author: Timothy Harper, Elizabeth Harper
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 06/01/2005
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780312337599

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.2
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 103777 / Your Name in Print: A Teen's Guide to Publishing for Fun, Profit and Academic Success


Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 07/01/2005 pg. 34
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2005 pg. 245 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Booklist 09/01/2005 pg. 108
School Library Journal 11/01/2005 pg. 160

About the Author

Elizabeth Harper was an honors student and an editor of the award-winning school newspaper at Ridgewood High School in New Jersey. A former weekly columnist for the Ridgewood News, she has also had her work appear in The New York Times and The Record in Bergen County, New Jersey. She attends Oberlin College in Ohio.

Timothy Harper is a journalist, an editorial/publishing consultant, and the author of eleven previous books and hundreds of articles. An adjunct faculty member at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

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