Writer's Online Marketplace
How and Where to Get Published Online
Compiled by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Writer's Digest Books, 2001
Paperback ISBN: 1582970165 Nonfiction
Reviewer Contact: HoJoReviews@aol.com
Publisher Link: www.writersdigestbooks.com
Explicit: None
Rating: 4 of 5

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Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of This is the Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered

Who Says Online Doesn't Pay?

Listen up, writers! 

Writer's Online Marketplace is a book you'll want on your desk. Enough of these willy-nilly submissions. This book will put you on track.

Debbie Ridpath Ohi has compiled a book of informative articles-sage advice from other writers--to go with a section of very complete"Market Listings," all paying!  It covers everything from the very basics to "Insider Views."  It even has a section that addresses "Online Promotion," my favorite subject.  Its strength, however, is that list of more than 300 sites that pay their authors and the advice it gives on how to trace down sites that have changed addresses.

Each entry in Online Marketplace is very complete; that is a boon to writers looking for new markets because it curtails the amount of research they must do for themselves. Because the entries are so detailed, the book would benefit from some easily spotted codes or icons at the beginning of each listing.  Perhaps we can look forward to that in the next edition.   I'm sure there will be one.  Authors will want to keep on top of this rapidly changing market in yearly editions.     

In the meantime, the author offers a bonus.  You can check out updates on these markets at www.electricpenguin.com/wom/

Copyright © 2003 Carolyn Howard-Johnson. All Rights Reserved.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards. Her newly released Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remember has won three. Paul St. John Fleming says, "Howard-Johnson is one hell of a writer." Learn more at: http://carolynhowardjohnson.com