Columnists Part of New Feature-Writing Book

By: E&P Staff Five of the 15 writers spotlighted in "FeatureWriting.Net" are current or former columnists, including Jill Darling, Eva Marie Everson, Terry Mattingly, Bill Newcott, and James Watkins.

"FeatureWriting.Net" is Michael Ray Smith's new how-to book on doing articles for newspapers and magazines.

Smith (www.featurewriting.net) chairs the mass communications department at Campbell University in North Carolina. He has written more than 3,000 articles for magazines and newspapers -- including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Sun of Baltimore, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. "FeatureWriting.Net" is his fourth book.