The book was originally published in 1982. It was criticized by a few Goodreads reviewers as "dated". I found it contained a lot of really good advice that was as currently relevant as books published this year.
Thirty-one years before Ms. Whitney wrote, "As a reviewer of children's books, I'd read the best of what was being published, and now I set out to discover what constituted a 'better book.' I found out: It was nearly always a book that said something worth saying. Said something. That was what made certain books stand out over so many others! Significance, meaning a message, not the obvious, not just the same cliches. . .
If you don't have this emotional involvement, throw the subject away. You can't fake conviction. Whatever you want to say in your fiction must come out of what you believe and feel."
I give the book 4 stars.
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