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This Aladdin/Beyond Words edition May 2012
Copyright © 2001, 2012 by Vicki Hambleton and Cathleen Greenwood
“About Wishing” Copyright © 2001 by Matthew Stepanek
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hambleton, Vicki.
So, you want to be a writer? : how to write, get published, and maybe even make
it big! / Vicki Hambleton, Cathleen Greenwood.
p cm.
Rev. ed. of: So, you wanna be a writer?
1. Authorship—Juvenile literature. 2. Authorship—Marketing—Juvenile literature.
3. Authorship—Vocational guidance—Juvenile literature. I. Greenwood,
Cathleen. II. Hambleton, Vicki. III. Title. So, you wanna be a writer?
PN159.H28 2012
808.02—dc23
2011046252
ISBN 978-1-58270-353-4 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-58270-359-6 (hc)
ISBN 978-1-4424-5291-6 (eBook)