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Save money, save time, protect your investment, and improve your marketing. Reference essential metadata details for ISBNs, barcodes, LCCNs, copyright. Avoid legal headaches, missed deadlines, and expensive fees. Learn how to look professional, not amateur-published. Protect your book’s hard-earned reader reviews. Ensure your freedom to use any book printer. Include your book in the directories used by major publishers. Keep your options open to use any book distributor.

"In Business with Clive" è l'inglese professionale spiegato in modo semplice ed efficace da Clive Griffihs, uno dei più famosi insegnanti d'inglese in Italia. È una collana di audiobook suddivisa per argomenti che insegna ad entrare e a destreggiarsi - con le giuste parole - nella realtà lavorativa mediante l'uso della lingua inglese.

Est-ce que le fait de préparer intensivement votre roman peut vous aider à écrire une meilleure histoire ? Les auteurs considèrent souvent les ébauches et la préparation avec peur et tremblements. Mais quand cette phase est bien comprise et correctement exécutée, elle devient une flèche redoutable dans votre carquois d'auteur.

La romance est un genre majeur de la fiction romanesque et probablement le genre préféré des lecteurs et des lectrices. Savoir comment écrire un livre en romance est donc un atout majeur pour votre carrière d'auteur. Écrire une romance est à la fois similaire et différent des autres genres.

Voudriez-vous gagner votre vie en écrivant ? Cet ouvrage vous expliquera comment le faire. J'ai passé 13 ans dans un open space dans le monde de l'entreprise. J'étais malheureuse dans mon boulot et ma créativité était écrasée par les tâches quotidiennes. Puis j'ai commencé à écrire des livres et à publier des blogs, en utilisant mes mots pour créer des produits et attirer des lecteurs. En septembre 2011, j'ai quitté mon activité salariée pour devenir auteur à plein temps et depuis j'ai fait grandir mon activité année après année.

Tienes una historia que contar. Y no sabes como llevarla al papel porque nadie te ha enseñado cómo hacerlo... hasta ahora. Me llamo Raimon Samsó, soy autor de 31 libros, y he conseguido 2 premios literarios y he vendido cientos de miles de ejemplares. Este libro te revelará las claves de mi éxito. He resumido lo que aprendí leyendo, hablando con escritores, y practicando lo que aprendía de ellos. Estudié una docena de manuales sobre cómo escribir bien. Me enseñaron muchos recursos prácticos que resumo ahora para ti.

Publishing is an incredibly rewarding yet endlessly complicated profession. This comprehensive and empowering book serves as a resource and reality check for anyone considering launching a press or publishing a single book. Author Joe Biel draws on 23 years of experience in all parts of operating a small publishing company to teach you the skills of the trade, from distribution, operations, inventory, scheduling, and accounting to development, sales, publicity, and marketing.

The business of book marketing has changed! The traditional rules longer apply, and a new era of marketing books is upon us - an approach in which authors are authentically engaging their audiences. But where do you start? Today's mega-success authors are not only writers but entrepreneurs who expertly work a strategy that leverages the power of social media, search engine optimization, advertising, speaking, bookstore signings, and a combination of other programs that are incredibly rewarding to the author.

My name is Drew Hayes, and for the past six years I've made my living as a writer. In that time, I've published 20 books, written hundreds of thousands of words, and made countless mistakes - most of which I like to think I've learned from. Underqualified Advice (and Other Amusing Diversions) is my attempt to compile those lessons and share them with others, as well as have some fun along the way. Half of the book is dedicated to detailing specifics about writing, maneuvering the industry, and keeping fiscally afloat in largely unstable waters.

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.

For 50 years, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers and its award-winning magazine for resources to foster their professional development, from writing prompts and tips on technique to informative interviews with published authors, literary agents, and editors. But never before has Poets & Writers marshalled its 50 years’ worth of knowledge to create an authoritative guide for writers that answers every imaginable question about craft and career - until now.

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.

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?

Many of us read books every day, either electronically or in print. We remember the books that shaped our ideas about the world as children, go back to favorite books year after year, give or lend books to loved ones and friends to share the stories we've loved especially, and discuss important books in book clubs and online communities. For all the ways books influence us, teach us, challenge us, and connect us, many of us remain in the dark as to where they come from and how the mysterious world of publishing truly works. How are books created and how do they get to readers?

With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to fulfill their writing goals. A finished book - or even steady journal articles - may seem like an impossible dream. But, as Joli Jensen proves, it really is possible to write happily and productively in academe. Jensen begins by busting the myth that universities are supportive writing environments. She points out that academia, an arena dedicated to scholarship, offers pressures that actually prevent scholarly writing.

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.