2004 Novel and Short Story Writer's Market

The 2004 edition of this long-running Writer's Digest reference packed more than 2,000 updated market listings — literary magazines, book publishers, online opportunities — with submission guidelines, editorial preferences, and payment details for each, plus craft interviews with Janet Evanovich, Alice Sebold, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, and editors from The Atlantic Monthly and The Missouri Review. For an aspiring fiction writer in 2004, this was exactly what it needed to be: comprehensive, indexed, and actionable. The honest caveat is simply the calendar: a 2004 edition has no practical value for current market research — contact details, payment rates, and many listed publications have changed or closed. Worth it as a historical snapshot of the fiction market or for the author interviews; for active querying, you need a current edition.