Writing Successful Self-Help and How-To Books Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition
by Jean Marie Stine
Mastering the craft and understanding the mechanics of writing self-help and how-to books is the key to getting publishers to take notice of your work. Jean Stine offers an insider's view of this growing genre. Her easy-to-follow program takes readers step-by-step through the complete writing process.
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""If you follow only a third of Jean's advice, you'll have a successful book."" --Jeremy Tarcher, Publisher Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc.
""After Jean reworked my first draft, paperback rights sold for $137,000."" --Timmen Cermak, M.D., author of A Time to Heal: "The Road to Recovery for Adult Children of Alcoholics"
Mastering the craft and understanding the mechanics of writing self-help and how-to books is the key to getting publishers to take notice of your work. Now, in the first guide to writing self-help and how-to books, Jean Stine offers an insider's view of this growing genre. Her easy-to-follow program takes you step-by-step through the complete writing process. You'll learn the importance of: Structure and Style Clear, easy-to-understand exercises Creating catchy and compelling titles, subtitles, and chapter headings Using lists, charts, and graphs to maximum effect Checklists and other interactive elements Writing a proposal that sells Negotiating permissions for quotations, photos, and illustrations Preparing your manuscript for presentation to a publisherDetails
- Title Writing Successful Self-Help and How-To Books
- Author Jean Marie Stine
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley, New York
- Date 1997-02-01
- ISBN 9780471037392 / 0471037397
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 9.01 x 6.01 x 0.59 in (22.89 x 15.27 x 1.50 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Authorship
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96026886
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.02
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