How to Get Happily Published: A Complete and Candid Guide - Softcover

Appelbaum, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062735098 ISBN 13: 9780062735096

Publisher: Collins Reference, 2018

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 1998 Pages: 400 in Publisher: Harper Collins The classic bestselling guide to getting published In the 20 years since it first appeared. Hundreds of Light Rail Transit Feeder of writers'professionals as well as beginners - have read. Followed and benefited from How to Get Happily Published. This new edition adds material on making deals with publishers (and what's important). working with small publishers (and when that's preferable). capitalizing on contacts (and where to make them). deciding whether to self-publish (and how much that costs). using new electronic media (to publish; to get information. publicity. promotion and sales; and to connect with enthusiastic readers). and making your work sell better (whoever the publisher is). Plus hundreds of new resources - books. magazines. newspapers. newsletters. groups. experts and Internet sites covering ...

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"No other book offers such practical, common-sense guidance on the step-by-step process of getting a book successfully published. Must reading for everyone who wants to do it right."-- Elizabeth Geiser, University of Denver Publishing Institute"Invaluable . . . Explains in detail the steps authors can take to drum up excitement, interest, and an audience for their books."-- Terry McMillan, author of "Waiting to Exhale"Most helpful to me when I needed to understand the publishing business."-- M. Scott Peck, author of "The Road Less Traveled"Among the many books of advice, the best is "How to Get Happily Published."-- "Money"Helped me write 20 books for publishers large and small and start my own publishing company!"-- Lisa Rogak Shaw, Williams Hill Publishing"I recommend this industry classic to writers all the time for its practical, common-sense guidance."-- William Shinker, President and Publisher, Broadway Books/Bantam Doubleday Dell"I love "How to Get Happily Published." I keep it near me as my bible/companion/positive reinforcement, and I'm getting my stories published."-- Richard C. Nacy, bookstore chain community relations coordinator

From the Author:

New Reviews of the Publishing Industry Classic
Now starting on its second half-million in sales, How to GetHappily Published continues to win praise from writers and publishing pros.

"The phenomenal Resources section would be worth the price of the book all by itself," Elizabeth A. Geiser, Director, The Publishing Institute.

Now that you're done toiling over that manuscript, you can tackle the hard part -- getting it published. Fortunately, Judith Appelbaum has been helping writers turn their dreams into reality for 20 years with this classic. In addition to telling you how to find and work with agents and editors, the fifth edition features more on how to negotiate contracts, use electronic media to get publicity, and where to find resources. With this guide tucked under your arm, book signings are just around the corner (not to mention a possible appearance in the QPB Review; but be warned -- your friends will get jealous). - Quality Paperback Book Review

JUDITH APPELBAUM, author of the classic How to Get Happily Published, just out in a fifth edition, has been a columnist and reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, an editor of Harper's and the managing editor of Publishers Weekly.

Winner of the Publishers Marketing Association Benjamin Franklin Award for Lifetime Achievement, she chairs the Book Industry Systems Advisory Committee's royalty group and is a leader in industry efforts to improve royalty statements for the benefit of authors and publishers alike.

A member of the board of the Book Industry Study Group, the advisory committee of The Small Press Center and the faculty of The Publishing Institute at the University of Denver, Judith Appelbaum often gives talks and workshops on publishing and getting published.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins Reference
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0062735098
• ISBN 13: 9780062735096
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 400