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Getting Your Book Published For Dummies is your complete guide to realizing whatever gem of an idea you’ve been carrying with you. If you’ve ever thought, “this would make a really good book,” be it the next great American novel or a guide to naming babies, here’s your chance to put pen to paper and find out! Written from both sides of the editor’s desk – by a widely published writer and a HarperCollins veteran publisher – this guide puts in your hand the advice you need to:
- Pick an idea
- Approach the publisher
- Craft proposals and queries
- Work with agents, or act as your own
- Self-publish
- Negotiate a contract
- Create the actual book
- Sell your published book
Full of examples, proposals, query letters, and war stories drawn from the authors’ extensive experience, Getting Your Book Published For Dummies shows you how to clear all the hurdles faced by today’s writers – freeing up precious time for you to refine your manuscript. You’ll get the inside scoop on:
- Titling your book
- Major publishers, smaller houses, niche publishers, university presses, and spiritual and religious publishers
- The 12 elements of a successful nonfiction proposal
- How editors read queries
- Submitting fiction
- Publishing outside the box
- And much more
Getting Your Book Published For Dummies is the clear, A-Z handbook that makes the entire process plain and practicable. You don’t need to be a celebrity. You don’t need to be some kind of publishing insider. All you need to do is write.
From the Publisher
Choose a book idea
Get inspired to write
Find a market for your work
Choose a publisher
Act as your own agent
Negotiate your contract
Self-publish your book on the Web
There's never been a better time to be an author. Read the first page
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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3.0 out of 5 stars
This book made me look like an idiot...,
By Reds Fan (Cincinnati, OH United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Getting Your Book Published For Dummies (Paperback)
Earlier this year I had a book fall in my lap. A publishing company had an idea for a book, and I just happened to be the expert in the book's topic. I had a journalism background, so the publisher offered me the job. We set up a meeting to talk about the specifics of my duties and my contract a few days later.I ran out and sifted throught the limited section of books on publishing at my local bookstore. I chose this book and began to read through the chapters. Although the organization of the book is pretty good and there is some good information (probably more suited for the publishing market a few years ago), some really bad advice nearly cost me the job. The standard royalty rates weren't really put into context (for example, my specific situation was hard to apply to the text). I felt like all of the information was too general, and because of that, I looked like an idiot in front of my editor, marketing coordinator and the VP of acquisitions. I got a lot out of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published, The Self-Publishing Manual and a few other books. For the money, I got very little out of this title.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Getting your book published for those who already have,
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This review is from: Getting Your Book Published For Dummies (Paperback)
This book was a disappointment. The reviews below pretty much reflect my problems with the book. Another problem I had concerned promotion. The authors assume that every aspiring author already has extensive media contacts. The sample proposal they give is from 2 college professors who have already published 2 books and have been featured on national TV and raidio. Now come on, most people who buy this book have not been on national TV and have no idea where to begin a promotional campaign. That's why they buy this book in the first place! Instead of telling us how to establish media contacts to use in the proposal, the authors simply tell us to use all our media contacts in the proposal. If I already had media contacts I wouldn't have needed the book.In sum, if you havn't already published a few books and havn't been on national TV, this book will leave you with many lingering questions.
2.0 out of 5 stars
They Could Have Done Better ...,
By Michael A. Banks (Oxford, OH USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Getting Your Book Published For Dummies (Paperback)
Alas! The estimable Stephanie Dray has written most the review of this book that I wanted to write. As does Ms. Dray, I feel that some of the content is trite.Otherwise: One really good thing this book has going for it was far too brief. That is the initial "Getting Started" section. The authors provided much good info therein, but there is a lot more to be said about evaluating and developing ideas, as well as on the subject of how things work (and don't work) in the world of freelancing. (New writers--and that is the category into which most of the buyers of this book fall--need more direction in those areas.) The title makes me wonder what the marketing and editorial people weren't thinking when they agreed on it. The publisher deals exclusively with nonfiction books, and I think this led to editorial and marketing thinking in terms of nonfiction books only--not taking into account the fact that novels are books, too! Thus it may be that the title misled novelists into thinking the book was for them. On the paw, "Getting Your Nonfiction Book Published for Dummies" would have been a bit unweildy. But the cover copy or a subtitle would have sufficed to alert the reader. (Details, details ...) I applaud the line's parent, IDG, for moving into the writing how-to field. But they could have done better.
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