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Brown, Paul B.

Publishing confidential the insider's guide to what it really takes to land a nonfiction book deal / [electronic resource] : Paul B. Brown ; with illustrations by Britton Payne and snide editorial comments by Ellen Kadin. - New York : American Management Association, c2004. - xii, 180 p. : ill.

Includes index.

1. An introduction of sorts -- 2. "What do you have; why should I care?" Ask your potential publisher -- 3. Making contact -- 4. Market test : the second best answer is no -- 5. Creating the proposal -- 6. Trying to hold on to control -- 7. You've finished the manuscript-- Now what? -- 8. Helping your publisher to help you -- 9. Going your own way-- nontraditional approaches to being published, or "Publisher? We don't need no stinkin' publisher."


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Authorship--Marketing.
Book proposals.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN161 / .B77 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 070.5/2