Publishing confidential
Subtitle: the insider's guide to what it really takes to land a nonfiction book deal
By: Paul B. Brown ; with illustrations by Britton Payne and snide editorial comments by Ellen Kadin.
Publisher: American Management Association
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Authorship -- Marketing.; Book proposals.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1. An introduction of sorts; title: 2. "What do you have; why should I care?" Ask your potential publisher; title: 3. Making contact; title: 4. Market test : the second best answer is no; title: 5. Creating the proposal; title: 6. Trying to hold on to control; title: 7. You've finished the manuscript; title: Now what?; title: 8. Helping your publisher to help you; title: 9. Going your own way; title: nontraditional approaches to being published, or "Publisher? We don't need no stinkin' publisher."