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"This manual offers the independent, grass-roots author an easy, quick-reference guide to creating, publishing and marketing a commercially viable book in today's competitive marketplace. With today's publishing technology...

The samples and templates of proposals, query letters, cover letters, and press kits will help you launch your proposed book idea in the media long before you find a publisher.

Use excerpts from your own book proposal's sample chapters as features, fillers, and columns for publications. Share experiences in carefully researched and crafted book proposals and query or cover letters.

Use these templates and samples to...

A university press is a curious institution, dedicated to the dissemination of learning yet apart from the academic structure; a publishing firm that is in business, but not to make money; an arm of the university that is frequently misunderstood and occasionally attacked by faculty and administration. Max Hall here chronicles the early stages and first sixty years of Harvard University Press in a rich and entertaining book that is at once Harvard history, publishing history, printing history, business history, and intellectual history.

The tale begins in 1638 when the first printing...

Directed specifically to the needs of academic authors, this realistic handbook is a guide to publishing success for both beginning and seasoned scholars. Robin Derricourt uses an immensely readable series of informal letters to provide a fund of practical advice: an up-to-date manual on how to plan and prepare a book, approach a publisher, secure a contract, and build a reliable author-publisher relationship that will last throughout the process of publication and marketing. Informed by rare common sense, and a sense of humor, the book speaks clearly about the most recent developments in...

It all began atop a drugstore in Princeton, New Jersey, in November 1905. From its modest beginnings, Princeton University Press was to become one of the world's most important scholarly publishers, embracing a wealth of disciplines that have enriched our cultural, academic, and scientific landscape.

Both as a tribute to our authors and to celebrate our centenary, Princeton University Press here presents A Century in Books. This beautifully designed volume highlights 100 of the nearly 8,000 books we have published. Necessarily winnowed from a much larger list, these...

A complete guide to breaking into the world of print poetry, How to Publish Your Poetry presents market resources for locating appropriate publishers, explains how to define your audience, and shows how to write a persuasive submissions package. It also reveals a proven system for submitting your package a system designed to maximize results and help you realize your publication dreams. When acceptance letters roll in, the author guides you in selecting the publications that will help you meet your goals.

For every writer who hopes to break into print, getting that first article published is essential. How do you get your story idea looked at, let alone accepted? Where do you start? Now, freelance article writer Shirley Kawa- Jump has written an exceptional book designed to answer all the novice writer's common questions about getting articles into magazines, journals, newspapers, and newsletters.
How to Publish Your Articles is divided into three parts. Part One covers the basics of the world of print publication. Part Two provides a complete system of article...

Getting Your Book Published For Dummies is your complete guide to realizing whatever gem...