This book serves as a guide to the basic tools of magazine article writing: knowing the marketplace, brainstorming, researching, querying editors, and writing to get published.

Using a nuts-and-bolts approach, this text presents a step-by-step methodology to writing for magazines that includes significant coverage of trade, professional, and Web magazines. Students learn to master the basics of magazine article writing through hands-on exercises and commentary from current and successful magazine writers and editors.