WRITE & PUBLISH A TEXTBOOK: A GUIDE FOR THE TEACHER/AUTHOR Stanley Skinner Scarborough (Ont.), Centennial College Press, 1992. 118pp, paper, $15.00 ISBN 0-919852-30-0. CIP Professional Reviewed by Philip K. Harber. Volume 20 Number 4 1992 September There are many books on how to write and publish a book, but this one will find its own niche. It is for Canadian teachers at all levels who want to write textbooks. The author has edited and written textbooks him­self, and has taught courses in publishing. In a short handbook, using the principles he advocates for textbook writers, he has summed up the practices arid processes of writing and publishing, drawing on his personal experience, at the risk of over­simplification. For example, there is a lot more to be said about word processing, book production, style manuals and teacher's manuals than is found here. Basically, he holds that you only learn by writing for publication, and that your work can only be properly judged by professionals, i.e., commercial publishers as well as teaching peers. Those of us who aim to start writing textbooks would do well to use the reading list and to seek out more information on the world of publishing before sending out MSS to the publishers listed in this little guide. Philip K. Harber is a French-language library consultant with the Board of Education for the City of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario.