The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book

If you are still confused about the process of publishing, working with publishers and agents, organizing a nonfiction book, targeting your audience and developing a promotions plan, for example, this is the book you’ve been waiting for. The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book is a definitive guide to successful authorship. This book details critical information related to the publishing industry in frank terms. It includes numerous anecdotes to illustrate the processes involved in successful authorship. And it highlights the rewards and the ramifications of your publishing decisions. This book walks hopeful and experienced authors through the writing, publishing and book promotion process from start to finish and beyond. Herein, you’ll learn how to: edit your own manuscript, write with more clarity, choose the right editor to polish your finished product,locate the right publisher for your book and select the best agent for your project. This book will show you how to write query letters and book proposals, keep from making costly publishing mistakes, understand your responsibility as an author, successfully self-publish your book and tackle the business aspects of publishing. Do you want to know how to get your book into bookstores, get your book reviewed many times over, sell more books at book signings and festivals and develop a promotional plan for your book that works? Then this book is for you!! Patricia Fry has poured into this book the information and experience she has gleaned from over 30 years in this business. Not only was she involved in early publishing models, she stays up-to-date with the industry through her own current publishing projects, by guiding clients and students through the publishing maze and through the work she does on behalf of SPAWN (Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Network). Patricia frequently responds to authors’ questions through the SPAWN Web site and at writers/publishers conferences and workshops each year. She keeps her finger on the pulse of the industry by researching for and writing the monthly SPAWN Market Update—a meaty newsletter posted at the SPAWN Web site. Eight of her 24 books relate to writing/publishing and she contributes dozens of articles each year to writing/publishing magazines such as, Writer’s Digest, Authorship, PMA Independent, Absolute Write, Freelance Writer’s Report, Byline, SPAWNews, SPANnet, NAWW Newsletter and others.