How to Write and Get it Published - Softcover

Akens, David Strode

 
9780873979962: How to Write and Get it Published

Synopsis

This practical guide to strengthening writing skills and getting noticed in the cut-throat publishing industry will benefit aspiring authors, struggling authors, or anyone with an unpublished manuscript. Among the topics covered are how to read intelligently and carefully; understanding setting and characterisation; how to write character biographies and characteristics lists; plotting, drafting, and writing; reasons why manuscripts are rejected; finding agents, publishers, and printers; and marketing and sales strategies. This complete set of start-to-finish tools puts the emphasis back on good writing as the surest means of getting published for profit.

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