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The Business of Writing: Professional Advice on Proposals, Publishers, Contracts, and More for the Aspiring Writer
Author(s): Jennifer Lyons (Editor), Oscar Hijuelos (Foreword)
- Publisher: Allworth Press
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 158115917X
- ISBN-13: 9781581159172
Book Description
This enjoyable guide brings Jennifer’s in-depth tutorials to the broader public, balancing accessible, bulleted information for writers on the critical stages of acquiring and maintaining representation with interviews with professionals in the field. Interviewees include a
Harper’s magazine editor, a contracts manager, and other publishing professionals that you can expect to encounter as you advance in your career. Covering everything from how to write the perfect query letter to deconstructing the terminology of a publishing contract, this indispensable handbook to the writer’s trade will give you a thorough introduction to the nuts and bolts of publishing.Editorial Reviews
Review
Writer, you hold in your hands a book that earns the adjective invaluable. Information, reassurance, support, and inspiration are to be found here. New writers will be enlightened, and seasoned writers will find in this book strategies for navigating the twenty-first century s changes to the writer s life. –Laura Kasischke, National Book Critics Award winner for Space, In Chains
You think you know what you are doing as a writer? You don’t until you read Jennifer Lyons’s book The Business of Writing. It’s all changed, kiddo, and the center ain’t holding. Read this book or go into the used clothing business. –Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming
You think you know what you are doing as a writer? You don’t until you read Jennifer Lyons’s book The Business of Writing. It’s all changed, kiddo, and the center ain’t holding. Read this book or go into the used clothing business.
–Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming
