Michael Legat

Michael Legat (24 March 1923 in London, England – 15 August 2011 in Sussex, England) was a British writer of writers' guides and romance novels. He was an associate vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association.^[1] He worked as Editorial Director of Corgi Books and later of Cassell during 35 years, in 1978 he decided to turn to writing full time.^[2]

Bibliography

Harcourt Saga

1. The Silk Maker (1985)
2. The Cast Iron Man (1987)

Novels

• Mario's Vineyard (1980)
• The Silver Fountain (1982)
• The Shapiro Diamond (1984)
• We Beheld His Glory (1988)
• The Retiring Highwayman (1998)
• Two's a Crowd (2001)
• The Prison Within (2001)
• The Pure in Heart (2001)

Non Fiction

• Dear Author: Letters from a Working Publisher to Authors, Prospective and Practiced (1972)
• An Author's Guide to Publishing (1982)
• Putting on a Play (1984)
• Writing for Pleasure and Profit (1986)
• The Illustrated Dictionary of Western Literature (1987)
• The Nuts and Bolts of Writing (1989)
• How to Write Historical Novels (1990)
• Plotting the Novel (1992)
• Understanding Publishers' Contracts (1992)
• Non-fiction Books: A Writer's Guide (1993)
• The Writer's Rights (1995)
• An Author's Guide to Literary Agents (1995)
• Revision: An Author's Guide (1998)
• Michael Legat Writer's Guides (1999)
• Writing Your Life Story (1999)
• Rehearsal (1999)
• They Read Books and Go to Cocktail Parties (2000)
• Writing for a Living (2000)
• The Ultimate Simple Writer's Guide (2004)

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