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Based on the author's study of 1,500 adult students, Self-Help for Writers: Winners Show You How demonstrates how the application of fifteen principles can launch a successful literary career. The book contains a wealth of easy to use ideas and advice not available elsewhere. Case histories and the author's own example guide readers to find unique opportunities. Anyone who wants to be consistently published will take away practical help, inspiration and motivation from the book's positive tone. Novices, blocked writers, and freelancers in need of sales can benefit from the success methods described in this book. Students of all ages, re-entry women, retirees and people struggling with the English language will see themselves in the book's diverse examples. Self-Help for Writers is the result of the author's twenty-five years of teaching journalism and creative writing in the San Jose Metropolitan Adult Education Program. All along, she wondered why some writers succeeded where others failed. What had the winners going for themselves? What defeated the losers? Observing students' attitudes, methods, short cuts and clever little tricks, as well as a variety of self-defeating behavior, she identified fifteen factors that can make or break a writer's career. The book contains pitfalls tripping up unsuspecting writers and shows how to avoid common blunders. Of value to neophytes and professionals alike. A master teacher and widely published writer, the author is uniquely qualified to write this book. Besides classroom lectures, she has given seminars, addressed writers' gatherings, and helped hundreds of students into print. Her mission is to help writers succeed.