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Writing for Pleasure and Profit

Writing for Pleasure and Profit( )
Author: Legat, Michael
Foreword by: James, P. D.
ISBN:978-0-7090-5261-6
Publication Date:Jul 1993
Publisher:The Crowood Press
Imprint:Robert Hale
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $13.99
Book Description:

Brimming with useful advice and tips, this guide to writing warns against common pitfalls and teaches you how to adopt a professional attitude towards your work. Chapters cover such aspects of writing as the novel, short stories, non-fiction, articles, poetry, plays, radio and television scripts--even children's books. A detailed look at how to prepare a typescript, where and how to submit it and a discussion on the rewards of writing conclude this invaluable book....
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Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Authorship
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.3 x 8.4 x 0.7 Inches
Book Weight:0.63 Pounds
Author Biography
Legat, Michael (Author)
P. D. James, pseudonym of Phyllis Dorothy James White, was born on August 3, 1920 in Oxford, England. During World War II, she served as a Red Cross nurse. She worked in administration for 19 years with the National Health Service. After the death of her husband in 1964, she took a Civil Service examination and became an administrator in the forensic science and criminal law divisions of the Department of Home Affairs. She spent 30 years in British Civil Service. She became Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991.

Her first novel, Cover Her Face, was published in 1962. She wrote approximately 20 books during her lifetime including the Adam Dalgliesh Mystery series, the Cordelia Gray Mystery series, and Death Comes to Pemberley. She became a full-time writer in 1979. Three titles in the Adam Dalgliesh Mystery series received the Silver Dagger award--Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and A Taste for Death. In 2000, she published her autobiography, Time to Be in Earnest. Her dystopian novel, The Children of Men, was adapted into a movie in 2006. She received the Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement. She died on November 27, 2014 at the age of 94.

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