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Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business. The reality is, those who want to make a full- or part-time job out of writing are going to have a more positive and productive career if they understand the basic business principles underlying the industry.

Bill Gladstone’s Power of Publishing will help you decide when, how, and why to write your book and how to give it the best chance of success! Super agent and publishing legend Bill Gladstone will share more knowledge and empowering strategies for writing, producing, and publishing your book than you’ll find anywhere else! If you have a book within you - something to teach, a way of seeing the world, a story to tell - learn from the successes and mistakes of other authors and give your dream its wings.

The definitive source of information, insight, and advice for creative writers, from the nation’s largest and most trusted organization for writers, Poets & Writers. For half a century, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers...

If you're an entrepreneur with a message and you want to reach your best clients, raise your credibility as an expert and become an authority in your industry, then writing your book and getting it published is vital. Now it's easier than ever to get published, it's even more important that the book you write is not just good, but exceptional. "How To Write Your Book Without The Fuss" will show you exactly how to write for maximum impact, influence and income, so that you will have a book that brings business.

The Guide to Publishing Audiobooks has everything you need to know to acquire rights, produce, publish and distribute audiobooks to expand your audience for both fiction and nonfiction, and how you can increase your bottom line in the process. Multiple Grammy Award-winning audiobook producer, director, and attorney Jessica Kaye shares invaluable knowledge. You’ll learn how to evaluate a potential audiobook project, obtain the rights for audio publishing, or self-publish your own audiobook.

If you love to write, one of the best ways to earn money online is through writing articles. This bundle will teach you different techniques and tips on how you can successfully write in different styles of writing as well as different platforms. You will discover how to be an accomplished freelance writer and where and how to find writing gigs. You will learn all the methods and strategies on how to write online articles that would do well in search engines You will get expert advice on how to become a winning author.

The traditional way of publishing your book is a long process. This is the reason why more and more authors have taken the self-publishing route. But you must have a plan or a publishing strategy. Studies show that 90 percent of self-publishing success came from authors taking ample time to plan and strategize how they would produce and market their book. This audiobook will provide a comprehensive guide on the different ways you can self-publish your book. You will learn the viability of each option as well their advantages and disadvantages.

In this second edition, Saller adds new chapters, on the dangers of allegiance to outdated grammar and style rules and on ways to stay current in language and technology. She expands her advice for writers on formatting manuscripts for publication, on self-editing, and on how not to be “difficult”. Saller’s own gaffes provide firsthand (and sometimes humorous) examples of exactly what not to do. The revised content reflects today’s publishing practices while retaining the self-deprecating tone and sharp humor that helped make the first edition so popular.

David Morrell, best-selling author of First Blood, The Brotherhood of the Rose and The Fifth Profession, distills four decades of writing and publishing experience into this single masterwork of advice and instruction for fiction writers looking to make it big in the publishing world. With advice proven to create successful novels,

Today, nearly one million books are published each year. But is the era of the book as we know it - a codex of bound pages - coming to an end? And if it is, should we celebrate its demise and the creation of a democratic digital future, or mourn an irreplaceable loss?

Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account is nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of innovation from Edison's recitation of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" for his tinfoil phonograph in 1877 to the first novel-length talking books made for blinded World War I veterans to today's billion-dollar audiobook industry.

This dramatic story of two men's efforts to save a small Wisconsin daily from obliteration at the hands of the nation's largest newspaper chain brings together startling case histories of the dubious tactics practiced by Gannett and unsparing insights into the newspaper industry.

When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million small, lightweight paperbacks for troops to carry in their pockets and their rucksacks in every theater of war.

The first biography in over thirty years of Condé Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst. Written with the cooperation of his family on both sides of the Atlantic and a dedicated team at Condé Nast Publications, critically acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the life of an extraordinary American success story.

The Organised Writer is a practical, no-nonsense system that allows you to write without worrying about administration, business affairs, or scheduling. This straight-talking guide will help you become more productive, cope with multiple projects and make time within your life to write - while also dealing with non-writing tasks more efficiently.

What to call your book? It’s a dilemma that has many novelists, nonfiction authors and writers of children’s books gnashing their teeth. Others give their book title little thought, only to discover later that they’ve made a massive error. Brainstorming a Better Book Title gives you an effective titlefinding process to follow. More than 150 analyzed examples make the stakes of this search very real. Discover how to avoid titles that could cause problems for your book and learn how to identify and select your best options.

There's nothing like a book. For thousands of years, we have revered authors. From Homer to the writers of today, we reserve a special place in our hearts for those who have accomplished what few ever will. Books themselves have a mystique about them, for they are the age-old receptacles of our collective wisdom. There is power in a book!

How to Write Sales Copy is the guide you need! We will teach you how to write sales copy in seven easy steps. This guide is designed to provide you with all the tools you need in a concise, easy-to-understand format that will answer all your burning questions and get you on your way to successful copywriting. To be a successful copywriter, you must define your audience, what moves them to act, and how to make them feel important and valued. You must know how to structure your copy in a way that will keep readers on task, interested, and feeling satisfied.

After a thirty-year career as a writer, instructor, and editor, Mark Rennella has crafted a battle-tested method to help students and young professionals who want to improve their writing: the One-Idea Rule, anchored on the assertion that every component of a successful piece of writing should express only one idea. With The One-Idea Rule, writers embarking on their adult lives and professional journeys will have a reliable methodology they can easily remember and count on for all of their writing tasks.

As a twelve-time number-one best-selling and top 100 business book author, Gundi knows a thing or two about writing and publishing best sellers. All her books reached number one within just a few days of publishing, and over time, she developed a proven step-by step and easy-to-follow system that helped many first-time authors around the world reach number one within weeks.