Author: Sam Barry Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1440507104 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 240
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From the foreword by Maya Angelou: "[T]he joy they promise in their prose makes me glad that I and other writers have been willing to make good writing our aim, and even great writing our dream." "How do I get my book published?" Good question. Lucky for you, publishing insiders Sam Barry and Kathi Kamen Goldmark have laid out the blueprint for what you want - your book. From transforming an idea into a manuscript to finding an agent to working with an editor to marketing your book, BookPage's Author Enablers are here to assist you every step of the way. And they've brought some backup with original insight from literary superstars like Stephen King, Amy Tan, Rita Mae Brown, and more. It's everything you would ever want - and need - to know about the industry from the inside out.
Author: Anne Lamott Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307424987 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 274
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Anne Lamott is "a warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer’s world and its treacherous swamps" (Los Angeles Times). “Superb writing advice…. Hilarious, helpful, and provocative.” —The New York Times Book Review For a quarter century, more than a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father—also a writer—in the iconic passage that gives the book its title: “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’”
Author: Nathan Bransford Publisher: Nathan Bransford ISBN: 173414940X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 188
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Author and former literary agent Nathan Bransford shares his secrets for creating killer plots, fleshing out your first ideas, crafting compelling characters, and staying sane in the process. Read the guide that New York Times bestselling author Ransom Riggs called "The best how-to-write-a-novel book I've read."
Author: Gena Showalter Publisher: Author Talk Media LLC ISBN: 1734871806 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 444
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All Write Already is a daily how-to guide designed to help you write and edit a novel in a year at a manageable pace. With step-by-step instruction, two bestselling authors with over ninety published books will share how to craft your story, utilizing publishing tips and tricks they’ve learned along the way. Unique strategies for plotting your tale, creating a vibrant story world, and breathing life into the characters. Motivation and advice from over twenty-five bestselling authors. Preparing your manuscript for the next stage. Why not begin writing now?
Author: Ann Handley Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118232607 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 327
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The guide to creating engaging web content and building a loyal following, revised and updated Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other platforms are giving everyone a "voice," including organizations and their customers. So how do you create the stories, videos, and blog posts that cultivate fans, arouse passion for your products or services, and ignite your business? Content Rules equips you for online success as a one-stop source on the art and science of developing content that people care about. This coverage is interwoven with case studies of companies successfully spreading their ideas online—and using them to establish credibility and build a loyal customer base. Find an authentic "voice" and craft bold content that will resonate with prospects and buyers and encourage them to share it with others Leverage social media and social tools to get your content and ideas distributed as widely as possible Understand why you are generating content—getting to the meat of your message in practical, commonsense language, and defining the goals of your content strategy Write in a way that powerfully communicates your service, product, or message across various Web mediums Boost your online presence and engage with customers and prospects like never before with Content Rules.
Author: Matt Rudnitsky Publisher: ISBN: 9781732993976 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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98% of self-published books suck. But among the 2% are The Martian, 50 Shades of Grey, and - wait for it - A Christmas Carol.When Matt Rudnitsky's first self-published book earned $14,000 in profits and an offer from Simon & Schuster ... he was shocked. But Matt quickly realized "getting published" is a glorified scam, and you can reach the same audience (and earn ~5x the profits) by self-publishing.If you know what you're doing, that is.Matt insists that anyone can equal or surpass his success (and self-publish a true "classic") ... if they follow the steps in this book.This isn't your ordinary "book about writing books." It's real, no-BS advice from someone who's done it - and has learned from the dozens of successes and failures of himself and his clients - from self-help to memoir to business, and everything in between. It demystifies every single step of the book writing process, from ideation to validation to outlining to writing habits, publishing and marketing.
Author: Matt Rudnitsky Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781537719191 Category : Languages : en Pages : 218
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If I told you "getting published" was easy, you'd think I was full of shit. So how did I write my first book as a 23-year old, unemployed Economics major? And how did it only take a month, and make $$10,376.13 in passive income (so far) ... despite doing zero marketing? Because anyone can professionally self-publish a book, if they know what they're doing. I don't mean some scammy "e-book." I mean a real, paperback book on Amazon that nobody would know was self-published unless you told them. Publishing the book is easy, as I'll explain. Writing the book is NOT easy, but anyone can do it, if they're willing to work. You don't have to be an "expert." I'm not an expert, yet here we are. In fact, your non-expertise is your advantage (explained in Ch. 22). If you've ever wanted to write a book "some day" but thought you were unqualified, read this book. You'll learn everything you need to know to write your first successful book, in 24 steps, including: - Why traditional publishers are dead - How to find a profitable idea ... even if you think you have nothing to say - How to get started ... even if you're lost and overwhelmed - How to cure writer's block - How to outline ... without stunting your creativity - How to make your book your own ... not some boring, rehashed bullshit - How to build a lifelong writing habit - How to guarantee sales ... without annoying marketing - How to make your book look professional and sexy - How to have fun, hold your book in your hands, and build a writing career and/or business Don't read this book if you aren't willing to work, or challenge the conventional belief that "getting published" by traditional publishers is the only path. Publishers are dead. They don't want you to self-publish your book. Fuck 'em. You are an author.
Author: Janet Fitch Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 0316510068 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 703
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A young Russian woman comes into her own in the midst of revolution and civil war in this "brilliant" novel set in "a world of furious beauty" (Los Angeles Review of Books). After the loves and betrayals of The Revolution of Marina M., young poet Marina Makarova finds herself alone amid the devastation of the Russian Civil War -- pregnant and adrift, forced to rely on her own resourcefulness to find a place to wait out the birth of her child and eventually make her way back to her native city, Petrograd. After two years of revolution, the city that was once St. Petersburg is almost unrecognizable, the haunted, half-emptied, starving Capital of Once Had Been, its streets teeming with homeless children. Moved by their plight, though hardly better off herself, she takes on the challenge of caring for these orphans, until they become the tool of tragedy from an unexpected direction. Shaped by her country's ordeals and her own trials -- betrayal and privation and inconceivable loss -- Marina evolves as a poet and a woman of sensibility and substance hardly imaginable at the beginning of her transformative odyssey. Chimes of a Lost Cathedral is the culmination of one woman's s journey through some of the most dramatic events of the last century -- the epic story of an artist who discovers her full power, passion, and creativity just as her revolution reveals its true direction for the future.
Author: Kate Zambreno Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 1635902096 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 321
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A manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than a decade. I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order—pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature. On the last day of December 2009, Kate Zambreno, then an unpublished writer, began a blog called "Frances Farmer Is My Sister," arising from her obsession with literary modernism and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her partner held a university job. Widely reposted, Zambreno's blog became an outlet for her highly informed and passionate rants and melancholy portraits of the fates of the modernist “wives and mistresses," reclaiming the traditionally pathologized biographies of Vivienne Eliot, Jane Bowles, Jean Rhys, and Zelda Fitzgerald: writers and artists themselves who served as male writers' muses only to end their lives silenced, erased, and institutionalized. Over the course of two years, Frances Farmer Is My Sister helped create a community of writers and devised a new feminist discourse of writing in the margins and developing an alternative canon. In Heroines, Zambreno extends the polemic begun on her blog into a dazzling, original work of literary scholarship. Combing theories that have dictated what literature should be and who is allowed to write it—she traces the genesis of a cultural template that consistently exiles feminine experience to the realm of the “minor,” and diagnoses women for transgressing social bounds. “ANXIETY: When she experiences it, it's pathological,” writes Zambreno. “When he does, it's existential.” With Heroines, Zambreno provided a model for a newly subjectivized criticism, prefiguring many group biographies and forms of autotheory and hybrid memoirs that were to come in the years to follow. A book that has become its own canon, Heroines was named one of the "50 Books that define the past 5 Years in Literature" by Flavorwire, an "Essential Feminist Manifesto" by Dazed, and one of the "50 Greatest Books by Women" in Buzzfeed.
Author: Brenda Ueland Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1627932011 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 192
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Brenda Ueland was a journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing. In If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit she shares her philosophies on writing and life in general. Ueland firmly believed that anyone can write, that everyone is talented, original, and has something important to say. In this book she explains how find that spark that will make you a great writer. Carl Sandburg called this book the best book ever written about how to write. Join the millions of others who've found inspiration and unlocked their own talent.
Author: Sam Barry
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