This Handbook offers insight and practical advice for your writing and publishing journey, whether you're just getting started or are ready to take the next step, including comprehensive and up-to-date contacts and listings. Would you like to know what a commissioning editor looks for, or how to start reviewing for newspapers? Maybe you'd like to understand just how the Irish publishing process works. Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, illustrate books for young people or are an emerging poet or dramatist, this book will be your reliable guide along the way. Featuring advice from Una Mannion, Kevin Power, Donal Ryan, Deirdre Nolan, Kit de Waal, Ivan O'Brien, Patrick O'Sullivan, Nuala O'Connor, Vanessa O'Loughlin, Brian Langan, Jan Carson, Claire Hennessy, Madeleine Keane, Yan Ge, David Butler and many more.