title: Penguin Pocket Writers Handbook (Penguin Pocket Books)
author:  Stephen Curtis 
description: Martin Manser is a professional reference-book editor who has worked on more than one hundred reference books including: The Penguin Wordmaster Dictionary, The Bloomsbury Good Word Guide, Chambers' Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms, The Macmillan Student's Dictionary and The New Penguin Thesaurus. Stephen Curtis was an English lecturer for ten years and since 1988 has worked as a freelance lexicographer, translator and writer. He has recently contributed to: The Encarta World English Dictionary, The New Penguin English Dictionary. He is author of Increase Your Word Power and (also with Martin Manser) The Wordsworth Crossword Companion.
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  This one is for Katie.  
  Forever.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are
  products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events or locales or persons living or dead is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
    
  
  
  An _Original_ Publication of POCKET BOOKS
  
  
    
  
  
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  Copyright © 2002 by Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
  
  
    
  
  
  Visit us on the World Wide Web:
  
  
  
  
  
  <http://www.SimonSays.com/st>
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  <http://www.startrek.com>
  
  
  
  
  
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  This book is published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
  under exclusive license from Paramount Pictures.
  
  
    
  
  
  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions
  thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Pocket Books, 1230
  Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
  
  
    
  
  
  ISBN: 0-7434-4846-4
  
  
    
  
  
  POCKET and colophon 