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Story consultant and author Jordan Smith has taken a powerful technique used by professional Hollywood screenwriters to sell their scripts and made it accessible to everyone with Finding the Core of Your Story. It's called a logline--and once you know about it, you'll want to create one for every story you write. Whether you write novels, movies, comic books, songs, or even operas, this book is for you.

In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amaranth Borsuk considers the history of the book, the future of the book, and the idea of the book. Tracing the interrelationship of form and content in the book's development, she bridges book history, book arts, and electronic literature to expand our definition of an object we thought we knew intimately. Contrary to the many reports of its death (which has been blamed at various times on newspapers, television, and e-readers), the book is alive.

Learn how to write a book fast, even within 24 hours - and start selling it online! If you are dreaming of creating an additional income writing and selling your own books, this audiobook is perfect for you! How to Write a Book for Beginners shows you how to outline your book, write it as fast as humanly possible, and then publish it for passive income. You'll learn to feel focused and relaxed as you achieve this goal.

How to Write Everything is the ultimate writer's handbook. It tells you about every aspect of writing, from having an idea to getting the idea out into the world and getting paid for it, too. It covers everything from journalism to screenwriting, from speeches to sketches, from sitcoms to novels. With thirty years' experience as an award-winning scriptwriter, journalist, author, and broadcaster, David Quantick is ideally suited, as a writer, to write this definitive writer's guide to writing...everything.

The face of publishing has changed drastically in recent years, and the 21st century promises to bring the most dramatic alterations to the publishing paradigm to date, calling for an overall revision of the structures and attitudes with which authors set up shop. By following the way of The Entrepreneurial Author, new and seasoned authors alike will discover that achieving and maintaining a professionally and personally balanced life is the way to achieve emotional and financial success, now and in the 21st century.

Horace Everett Hooper - a volatile, self-assured, impulsive, and optimistic American, an autodidact and natural-born salesman - got into the book business at age 16, moved to the Western frontier and on to Chicago, and became hugely successful. With a brilliant adman named Henry Haxton as his partner, he went about buying publishing rights to the Encyclopedia Britannica, a work incredibly distinguished by entries from Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus, Sir Walter Scott, and more.

Until recently, McClelland and Stewart had been known as 'The Canadian Publisher', the country's longest-lived and best independent press. Its dynamic leader, Jack McClelland, worked with successive provincial and federal governments to help draft policies in the 1960s and '70s which ensured that Canadian stories would, for the first time in the nation's history, be told and published by Canadians. M&S introduced Canadians to themselves while championing the nation's literature.

Al Silverman, a noted figure in American publishing, has written a wonderful chronicle of book publishing for all who cherish books. The Time of Their Lives is not only a love song to the industry's golden age, an era that began after World War II and lasted for three-plus decades, but it is also a reflection of the tastes and cultural appetites of the American public.

Don't wait! Publishing insider Brent Sampson reveals revolutionary advice guaranteed to increase your book sales on Amazon. Learn the powerful secrets used by successful Amazon authors every day. This informative and practical "how-to" guide shares new techniques that are proven to work. 

Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. In What Editors Do, Peter Ginna gathers essays from 27 leading figures in book publishing about their work. Representing both large houses and small, and encompassing trade, textbook, academic, and children's publishing, the contributors make the case for why editing remains a vital function to writers - and readers - everywhere.

APE's thesis is powerful yet simple: filling the roles of Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur yields results that rival traditional publishing. We call this "artisanal publishing" - that is, when writers who love their craft control the publishing process and produce high-quality books. APE is 411 minutes of step-by-step, tactical advice and practical inspiration.

If you want to learn how to self-publish, then get How to Self Publish guide written by a real-life author and self-publisher Jennifer-Crystal Johnson.

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.

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.

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.