Thank you very much for the reply. You started off really well with the personal exprience, but then went into the advice (which is appreciated). It would be more valuable to hear more about your writing career, at present, and over the past few years. One of my problems has been to somehow connect the advice to real life experience. One can save lots of time by putting things together that way. I do believe I bought or borrowed the Writer's Market book once. If my feeble memory serves, many of the leads listed were already out-of-date.