* Doctorow, Cory, & Karl Schroeder The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction
(Alpha Books 0-02-863918-9, $16.95, 22+360pp, tpb, July 2000)
Guide to publishing (and writing) science fiction, with chapters on the varieties of SF, conventions, where writers get their ideas, the components of short stories and of novels, characters, submitting manuscripts, self-promotion, awards, agents, e-books and the Internet, taxes, and writer's associations; plus appendices with lists of agents, publishers, and model contracts. Foreword by Tor senior editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden [and that's a photo of a stack of Tor books on the cover]. Doctorow won this year's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer; Schroeder has a new novel, Ventus coming next month from Tor. (Tue 14 Nov 2000)

This page lists selected new nonfiction books -- pertaining directly to science fiction, fantasy, and horror, as well as books of associational interest -- seen published this month, mostly via bookstores sightings (though all books received for review will be listed). For a comprehensive listing of new books pertaining to SFFH published each month, see Locus Magazine. Its Books Received listings are accumulated as the online Locus Index. Key: * = first edition, + = first US edition. Date with publisher info is official publication month; date in parentheses at paragraph end is date seen or received.