| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
284 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Thinking Like an Editor: Audience, -- Audience, Audience -- Part One: The Submission Package -- Chapter 2: How to Write a Proposal -- Chapter 3: Wrapping Up the Submission Package: -- The Table of Contents, the Sample -- Chapter, and Supporting Materials -- Chapter 4: PlacingYour Manuscript with a Publisher: -- To Agent or Not to Agent, and Other -- Questions about the Publishing Acquisition -- Process -- Chapter 5: A Question of Fairness and Other Limits -- of Argument in Serious Nonfiction 141 -- Chapter 6: Using Narrative Tension 177 -- Chapter 7: From Introduction to Epilogue: Writing -- Your Book Chapter by Chapter-and -- What to Do WhenYou Get into Trouble 196 -- Part Three: From Editing to Marketing to Publi cation -- Chapter 8: How to Be Published Well 223 -- Appendix: A Sample Proposal and Writing Sample 239 -- Acknowledgments 269 -- Index 271. |
| Summary |
Filled with insider and trade secrets, explains how to tailor academic writing to a general readership without losing ideas and offers tips on how to get a book published. |
| Subject |
Authorship -- Marketing.
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Authorship -- Marketing. |
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Book proposals.
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Book proposals. |
| Added Author |
Fortunato, Alfred.
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| ISBN |
0393038920 |
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9780393038927 |
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