• Publication: The Report, September 1991, No. 4Publication Record # 106501 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editors: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Christina York, J. Steven York
• Date: 1991-09-00
• Catalog ID: 1-56146-441
• Publisher: Pulphouse Publishing
• Price:
  $2.95^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 70
• Format:
  digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Notes: Noted as being Vol. 2, No. 4, Whole No. 57. The outside spine of this perfect-bound large digest says it is a product of Writers Notebook Press; however, the masthead fine print lists the publisher as Pulphouse Publishing. Its publisher is listed as Dean Wesley Smith. The two-color cover art, and multiple interior artwork pieces, have no identifying artist name anywhere in the publication. The Report is subtitled A Magazine By and For Writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. The Godwin essay on page 11 is a reprint from MZB's Fantasy Magazine. The Report later shifted to a newsprint production format due to high demand, per a statement by Publisher Dean Wesley Smith.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • The Publisher Speaks (The Report, September 1991, No. 4) • essay by Dean Wesley Smith
• 6 • The Blue Pencil Strikes! It's Not the Water • essay by J. Steven York
• 11 • No Nice Way to Put It • essay by Parke Godwin
• 17 • More About Neighbors • essay by Paul Hellweg
• 19 • Never Say Die • essay by Charlotte Brown Hammond
• 21 • Getting Ahead of Yourself • essay by T. Jackson King
• 27 • Don't Be a Fool • essay by Alan Barclay (Canada) [as by Alan R. Barclay]
• 29 • 30 Strategies for Making Yourself Work • essay by Jerry Oltion
• 33 • The Basics • essay by William R. Shockley
• 34 • Survival Column: Read This! • essay by Jodi Kimbell
• 39 • Tales From the Quark Side: Looking Up, and Looking It Up • [Tales From the Quark Side] • essay by C. W. Johnson [as by Dr. C. W. Johnson]
• 43 • On Ideas • poem by James D. Welch
• 45 • Tools: Software Review, Write for a Living • essay by Kent Patterson
• 49 • Hey Folks, It Ain't Real • essay by Elton T. Elliott [as by Elton Elliott]
• 55 • Market Section • essay by K. D. Wentworth
• 61 •  Letters (The Report, September 1991, No. 4) • essay by various
• 65 • Contributors (The Report, September 1991, No. 4) • essay by Dean Wesley Smith
• 67 • Guidelines (The Report, September 1991, No. 4) • essay by Dean Wesley Smith