The forest for the trees
Subtitle: an editor's advice to writers
By: Betsy Lerner.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Authorship; Authors and publishers
Description: "The shelves are crowded with books on how to write. But as Lerner says, she doesn't plan to Strunk you over the head about style. Instead, on the basis of her close work with writers, she attempts to describe the writer's psyche. Here are stories about those writers who typically help or hurt their own cause as they seek publication. In the first half of the book, she identifies six classic personality types and their attendant behaviors.

Lerner understands the anxieties and concerns of writers just getting started as well as those stalled mid-career. In the second half of the book, she takes readers through the publishing process from first contact to first contract to first glowing or gutting review."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-284).