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Market Guides:

Bentley, Chantelle, ed. 2003 Poets' Market. Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books, 2002.
Henderson, Kathy. The Market Guide for Young Writers, 5th Edition. Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books
Holm, Kirsten C., ed. 2003 Writers' Market. Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books, 2002.
Horton, Tara A., ed. 2003 Songwriters' Market. Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books, 2002.
Kuroff, Barbara, ed. 2003 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market. Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books, 2002.
Pope, Alice, ed. 2003 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market. Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books, 2002.
Stuart, Sally E., Christian Writers' Market Guide 2003. Wheaton: Harold Shaw Publishers, 2003.

The Writing Business:

Leal, Carmen. You Can Market Your Book. Eugene, OR: ACW Press, 2003.
Stuart, Sally E. Sally Stuart's Guide to Getting Published. Wheaton: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1999.
Writers Digest Editors. Writers Digest Handbook of Making Money Freelance Writing, Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books, 1997.

The Writing Process & Skills:

Judd, Karen. Copy Editing: A Practical Guide. Menlo Park, CA: Crisp Publications, 1990
Noble, William. The 28 Biggest Writing Blunders (and How to Avoid Them), Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books. 1992.
Plotnik, Arthur. The Elements of Editing. New York: Macmillan. 1982.
Provost, Gary. Make Every Word Count.
Shertzer, Margaret. The Elements of Grammar. New York: Collier Books, Macmillan, 1986
Strunk, William, Jr., and White, E. B. The Elements of Style, Third Edition with Index. New York: Macmillan, 1979.

Reference:

University of Chicago Press. The Chicago Manual of Style. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

The English Language, Grammar, Usage:

Bryson, Bill. Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words. New York: Broadway Books, 2002.
Burchfield, R. W., ed. Fowler's Modern English Usage (3rd Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Chantrell, Glynnis, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Gordon, Karen Elizabeth. The Deluxe Transitive Vampire. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
Gordon, Karen Elizabeth. The New Well-Tempered Sentence. New York: Tichnor & Fields, 1993.

Christian Writing:

Aycock, Don M. and Goss, Leonard G., The Christian Writer's Book‹A Practical Guide to Writing. North Brunswick, NJ: Bridge-Logos Publishers, 1996.
Bagnull, Marlene. Write His Answer‹A Bible Study for Christian Writers. Eugene, OR: ACW Press.
Klug, Ron. How to Keep a Spiritual Journal

Genres:

Bintliff, Russell. Police Procedural. Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books, 1993.
Boertlein, John, ed. Howdunit: How Crimes Are Committed and Solved. Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books. 2001.

Writing and the Imternet:

Leal, Carmen. writerspeaker.com. Colorado Springs: Shaw, Waterbrook Press, 2000