Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published write by Susan Rabiner. This book was released on 2010-09-27. Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Distilled wisdom from two publishing pros for every serious nonfiction author in search of big commercial success. Over 50,000 books are published in America each year, the vast majority nonfiction. Even so, many writers are stymied in getting their books published, never mind gaining significant attention for their ideas—and substantial sales. This is the book editors have been recommending to would-be authors. Filled with trade secrets, Thinking Like Your Editor explains: • why every proposal should ask and answer five key questions; • how to tailor academic writing to a general reader, without losing ideas or dumbing down your work; • how to write a proposal that editors cannot ignore; • why the most important chapter is your introduction; • why "simple structure, complex ideas" is the mantra for creating serious nonfiction; • why smart nonfiction editors regularly reject great writing but find new arguments irresistible. Whatever the topic, from history to business, science to philosophy, law, or gender studies, this book is vital to every serious nonfiction writer.
Thinking Like a Writer
Thinking Like a Writer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thinking Like a Writer write by Stephen V. Armstrong. This book was released on 2021. Thinking Like a Writer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
What Editors Do
What Editors Do - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Editors Do write by Peter Ginna. This book was released on 2017-10-06. What Editors Do available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays from twenty-seven leading book editors: “Honest and unflinching accounts from publishing insiders . . . a valuable primer on the field.” —Publishers Weekly Editing is an invisible art in which the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand the range of roles they inhabit while shepherding a project from concept to publication. What Editors Do gathers essays from twenty-seven leading figures in book publishing about their work. Representing both large houses and small, and encompassing trade, textbook, academic, and children’s publishing, the contributors make the case for why editing remains a vital function to writers—and readers—everywhere. Ironically for an industry built on words, there has been a scarcity of written guidance on how to approach the work of editing. Serving as a compendium of professional advice and a portrait of what goes on behind the scenes, this book sheds light on how editors acquire books, what constitutes a strong author-editor relationship, and the editor’s vital role at each stage of the publishing process—a role that extends far beyond marking up the author’s text. This collection treats editing as both art and craft, and also as a career. It explores how editors balance passion against the economic realities of publishing—and shows why, in the face of a rapidly changing publishing landscape, editors are more important than ever. “Authoritative, entertaining, and informative.” —Copyediting
How to Write a Novel
How to Write a Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Write a Novel write by Nathan Bransford. This book was released on 2019-10-15. How to Write a Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Author and former literary agent Nathan Bransford shares his secrets for creating killer plots, fleshing out your first ideas, crafting compelling characters, and staying sane in the process. Read the guide that New York Times bestselling author Ransom Riggs called "The best how-to-write-a-novel book I've read."
Getting It Published
Getting It Published - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Getting It Published write by William P. Germano. This book was released on 2010-10-21. Getting It Published available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since 2001 William Germano's Getting It Published has helped thousands of scholars develop a compelling book proposal, find the right academic publisher, evaluate a contract, handle the review process, and, finally, emerge as published authors. But a lot has changed in the past seven years. With the publishing world both more competitive and mor...
