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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810209103321

Autore

Brown Paul B

Titolo

Publishing confidential : the insider's guide to what it really takes to land a nonfiction book deal / / Paul B. Brown ; with illustrations by Britton Payne and snide editorial comments by Ellen Kadin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : American Management Association, c2004

ISBN

0-8144-2773-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

070.5/2

Soggetti

Authorship - Marketing

Book proposals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. An introduction of sorts -- 2. "What do you have; why should I care?" Ask your potential publisher -- 3. Making contact -- 4. Market test : the second best answer is no -- 5. Creating the proposal -- 6. Trying to hold on to control -- 7. You've finished the manuscript-- Now what? -- 8. Helping your publisher to help you -- 9. Going your own way-- nontraditional approaches to being published, or "Publisher? We don't need no stinkin' publisher."