Publishing confidential : the insider's guide to what it really takes to land a nonfiction book deal /

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Author / Creator:Brown, Paul B.
Imprint:New York : American Management Association, ©2004.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11128530
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ISBN:0814427731
9780814427736
9780814472262
0814472265
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes index.
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Other form:Print version: Brown, Paul B. Publishing confidential. New York : American Management Association, ©2004 0814472265
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Chapter 1. An Introduction of Sorts
  • Chapter 2. "What Do You Have; Why Should I Care?" Asks Your Potential Publisher
  • Chapter 3. Making Contact
  • Chapter 4. Market Test: The Second-Best Answer Is No
  • Chapter 5. Creating the Proposal
  • Chapter 6. Trying to Hold on to Control
  • Chapter 7. You've Finished the Manuscript--Now What?
  • Chapter 8. Helping Your Publisher to Help You (Or Why You Must Be an Integral Part of Your Publisher's Marketing/P.R./Sales Process, Even if You Hate the Idea and Couldn't Sell a Box of Girl Scout Cookies to Your Mother if Your Life Depended on It)
  • Chapter 9. Going Your Own Way--Nontraditional Approaches to Being Published, or "Publisher? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Publisher"
  • Appendix. Does This Describe You?
  • Index
  • About the Author, Illustrator, and Editor