Writing and Publishing Your Book: A Guide for Experts in Every Field (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781440858758)

Are you ready to write your book? Partner with an experienced publisher, writing coach, and author and find out how to turn your research and scholarship into a book.

This book is the next-best-thing to a personal writing coach. Drawing upon her own extensive experience as an author and publisher, Melody Herr guides the reader through every step of the writing and publishing process: constructing a table of contents, preparing a proposal, finding a publisher, negotiating a contract, drafting the manuscript, and marketing the finished product. Throughout, she offers proven strategies for producing a book that highlights its author's authoritative knowledge and writing skills.

Unique among writing guides, Writing and Publishing Your Book: A Guide for Experts in Every Field acknowledges the reader's own expertise; speaks to researchers and scholars across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities; and provides information and guidance that will benefit junior authors as well as their more senior colleagues. By following these practical, step-by-step instructions, new authors will more easily liberate their own creativity while avoiding the many pitfalls that mire new writers, thereby maintaining momentum for a successful publication.

Author: Melody Herr Ph D.
ISBN-10: 1440858756
ISBN-13: 9781440858758
Publisher: Greenwood
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2017
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2018 pg. 94