Publishing confidential : the insider's guide to what it really takes to land a nonfiction book deal /
Saved in:
Author / Creator: | Brown, Paul B. |
---|---|
Imprint: | New York : American Management Association, ©2004. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Subject: | |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11128530 |
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