Christian Writers’ Market Guide 2008 by Sally Stuart

This week, the

Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Christian Writers’ Market Guide 2008

WaterBrook Press (January 15, 2008)
by
Sally Stuart
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Sally Stuart has been writing for the last 40+ years, and has been putting out the annual “Christian Writers’ Market Guide” for the last 23 years. Her other writing includes several Christian education resources books, a children’s picture book, a basic writing text, writing resources, and a western novel–plus hundreds of articles and marketing columns. She writes marketing columns for the “Christian Communicator,” “Advanced Christian Writer,” and the Oregon Christian Writers’ Newsletter. She speaks and teaches at Christian Writers’ Conferences nationwide. Sally is the mother of 3 and grandmother of 8. She and her husband, Norm, spend their free time vacationing on the Oregon coast.Check out her blog!ABOUT THE BOOK:
The essential reference tool for the Christian writer, Sally Stuart’s Christian Writers’ Market Guide is now in its 23rd annual edition!

Check out the section on Blogging on page 69…the CFBA is listed!

Writers’ Conference listings, Book Publishers, Magazine Publishers, and a Bookstore filled with the resources you need to be successful in this business. Get a Book Contract or Manuscript Evaluation, and check out the Writer’s Resource links. This book has all you need to connect to all these valuable helps for the beginning, intermediate, or professional writer.

To keep you up to date with the latest marketing news, visit Sally Stuart’s new marketing blog, Christian Writers’ Marketplace, at http://www.stuartmarket.blogspot.com/.

A new, updated version of the Christian Writers’ Market Guide is available about January 15 each year.

My thoughts: As an aspiring writer, either writing fiction or freelance, I found Sally’s book extremely helpful. When i was thumbing through the book to get a feel for it I quickly became overwhelmed at the amount of information in it. However, when I started reading the introduction and how to use this book sections my anxiety quickly turned into peace and excitement. This book is an excellent resource for any Christian writer. It is one that I pick up and flip through just to look at all the publishers and editors and what genre they publish and so on. Sometimes I pick it up and read each individual entry in a section just to get a feel for what’s out there.

That said this book is a must have for any Christian writer who wants to be published or is already published. Thank you Sally Stuart for taking the time to research and organize the plethora of information and making it available to the rest of us.