Michael Legat

Michael Legat (24 March 1923 – 15 August 2011) was a British writer of writers' guides and romance novels. He was Chairman of Swanwick writers' summer school [1] and an associate vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association.[2]

Michael Legat
Born(1923-03-24)24 March 1923
London, England, United Kingdom
Died15 August 2011(2011-08-15) (aged 88)
Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Pen nameMichael Legat
Occupationpublisher, novelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Period1972–2004
GenreRomance
Website
www.bookends.clara.net

Legat was born in London, England. 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.[3] He died in Sussex, aged 88.

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)
gollark: Out of all possible gods, the ones which pay particular to attention to humans are probably a very small subset, although I guess given that we exist the probability of any god, should one exist, being one of them, is higher.
gollark: The lower-dimensional geometry mostly generalizes perfectly.
gollark: But you can totally do that, if not visualize it.
gollark: Why would a god which you can't comprehend care about human life of all things?
gollark: A set containing infinitely many things *does not imply* that a set contains everything.

References
  1. Martin, Nancy (1983). Venture of Faith - A History of Swanwick. Worthing: H.E. Walter Ltd. ISBN 0 85479 066 7.
  2. RNA Officers, archived from the original on 2009-02-13, retrieved 2010-02-01
  3. Michael Legat Official Webpside, archived from the original on 2010-02-05
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