The Author's HandbookUniv of Wisconsin Press, 2006. gada 8. febr. - 228 lappuses Providing essential guidance for both aspiring and experienced authors, the second edition of The Author’s Handbook is a valuable resource for writers of all levels. Extensively updated and expanded to account for significant changes in the publishing industry, The Author’s Handbook outlines effective techniques to develop marketable book ideas, research those ideas, and write a manuscript—either fiction or nonfiction—for publication. The authors provide many tips on topics that include choosing a publisher, negotiating contracts, understanding legal matters, and promoting your work. With this guide, the reader will gain insight into virtually every aspect of publishing. |
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... reading this book ) we can do for you what we did for Mike and tried to do for Phil . We can tell you what the publishing industry is really like and how you can tell what it won't publish . We can tell you how to present a book idea so ...
... reading public . A great many universities also sponsor publishing houses . Most university presses , subsidized by their parent schools , are mandated to publish works of im- portant scholarship ( especially those written by the ...
... reading public may get interested in next year , and from those guesses they generate ideas of their own . Once in a while they seek out authors or author's agents whose reputations or previous books they know and ask them to convert ...
... readers to be interested in this topic or that plot line that long from now? You must consider one other aspect of timelessness: Of the three million books in print, well under 5 percent were released as new titles within the past How ...