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Getting Your Book Published for Dummies
by Sarah Parsons Zackheim, Adrian Zackheim
Product Group: Book
Publisher: For Dummies (2000-07-31)
ISBN: 0764552570
EAN: 9780764552571
UPC: 785555030206
Dewey Decimal #: 808.02
Binding/Media: Paperback - 384 pages
SKU: 102009-2488
Condition: New
Comments: 0764552570 New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
There’s never been a better time to be an author. Books like the Harry Potter series create a media phenomenon, with people lining up and camping outside bookstores to purchase newly released titles. Yet book sales overall – not just those of mega-sellers – are on the rise, as more and more people seek knowledge and entertainment through reading. The Library of Congress currently registers about 60,000 new titles for copyright each year. 60,000 books by 60,000 authors. Imagine yourself as one. Getting Your Book Published For Dummies is your complete guide to realizing whatever gem of an idea you’ve been carrying with you. If you’ve ever thought, “this would make a really good book,” be it the next great American novel or a guide to naming babies, here’s your chance to put pen to paper and find out! Written from both sides of the editor’s desk – by a widely published writer and a HarperCollins veteran publisher – this guide puts in your hand the advice you need to: - Pick an idea
- Approach the publisher
- Craft proposals and queries
- Work with agents, or act as your own
- Self-publish
- Negotiate a contract
- Create the actual book
- Sell your published book
Full of examples, proposals, query letters, and war stories drawn from the authors’ extensive experience, Getting Your Book Published For Dummies shows you how to clear all the hurdles faced by today’s writers – freeing up precious time for you to refine your manuscript. You’ll get the inside scoop on: - Titling your book
- Major publishers, smaller houses, niche publishers, university presses, and spiritual and religious publishers
- The 12 elements of a successful nonfiction proposal
- How editors read queries
- Submitting fiction
- Publishing outside the box
- And much more
Getting Your Book Published For Dummies is the clear, A-Z handbook that makes the entire process plain and practicable. You don’t need to be a celebrity. You don’t need to be some kind of publishing insider. All you need to do is write.
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Customer Reviews
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Getting Your Book Published for Dummies
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-05-03
This was an excellent buy. It was received in a timely manner and was in excellent condition. They took the time to thoroughly bubble wrap the book so it wouldn't be damaged in the mail.
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Resourceful books about Publishing a new book
Rating  (4)
Date: 2009-11-20
This book provides a lot of useful information about how to deal with editors, prepare your query letters and proposals. It also explains what you can expect from a book contract so you can get yourself prepared in the negotiation process. The only drawback about this book is the fact that it says little about digital publishing and it does not say much about how to effectively prepare your proposal and strategy about communicating with your editor or publisher in the digital format. It would be even better if this book can list out the email address of major contact, such as chief editors. Overall it is a good book with a lot of useful information one needs to know before he/she seals a book deal!!
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Get Your Book Published for Dummies - It worked for me.
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-06-10
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I've been trying to sell my manuscripts for years... I followed all the rules and ended up with nothing but a stack of rejection notices. I bought "Get Your Book Published for Dummies" and followed just one of the author's suggestions. Within weeks I had heard from a publisher and my book has already been published. If you have yet to sell your first manuscript, I suggest that you purchase this book and follow the author's recommendations. I did... and it worked for me.
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Lots of information and ideas
Rating (4)
Date: 2007-10-05
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
For those of us who have never published this is an excellent place to start. I suggest reading it cover to cover, even if you already have a book ready for publishing, because it is so full of ideas for discovering your next publication and how to improve any you already have.
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A handy manual
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-05-14
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
The major virtue of this book is its compendium approach to the problem its title states. For those who know absolutely nothing about getting published, it is a helpful manual. The major flaw of the book is that its content boils down to a Catch-22---i.e., to be published you must have X. But X cannot be gained without Y and to do Y, you must have X.
I don't know whether the author's ideas have been repeated by the many who write on the same subject or whether the information in the book is so generalized that everyone in the industry knows it. In any case, the book brings together in one volume most of the things a writer trying to get published should know. And it does suggest the cause of the difficulty of getting published. That in itself is worth the price of the book.
However, the book is lightweight. One continues to wonder how to get published without having to do the kind of social commingling the author, and so many others, recommends.
The book was published in 2000. It has not to my knowledge been updated. So, some of the information is out of date. As the author notes: "editors move around a lot."
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