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The Subversive Copy Editorby Carol Fisher Saller
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 13.00Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online . Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor standoff, wherein both parties refuse to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling: "This author is giving me a fit." "I wish that I could just DEMAND the use of the serial comma at all times." "My author wants his preface to come at the end of the book. This just seems ridiculous to me. I mean, it’s not a post -face." In The Subversive Copy Editor , Saller casts aside this adversarial view and suggests new strategies... more...
Piracyby Adrian Johns
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 18.00Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood. Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over... more...
Marketing in Publishingby Patrick Forsyth; Robin Birn
Routledge 1997; US$ 43.95Offers a wealth of practical information on creative strategies to increase book sales in a competitive and rapidly changing marketplace and gives expert guidance on different elements of the marketing process. more...
Language of Magazinesby Linda McLoughlin
Routledge 2000; US$ 26.95Offers students a hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on magazines. It combines practical activities with texts, followed by commentaries and suggestions for further reading. more...
Magazines Handbookby Jenny McKay
Routledge 2000; US$ 39.95The Magazines Handbook is a comprehensive introduction to the magazine industry. Tracing the development of magazine publishing, Jenny McKay explores the business of magazines and the role of the magazine journalist. more...
Managing Your Academic Careerby D. Royce Sadler
Allen & Unwin 1999; US$ 21.78This text provides advice and information for academics across disciplines, including: how to establish networks; how to assess your prospects for promotion; how to climb out of a teaching rut; how to develop a theme for your journal publication; and how to convert your thesis into a book. more...
Mastering the Business of Writingby Richard Curtis
eReads 1999; US$ 9.99One of the most comprehensive guides currently on the market, Mastering the Business of Writing is an insider's guide to the business of being a professional writer. All aspects of the publishing industry are explained, both for the aspiring author and the established writer wishing to jumpstart a professional career. This guide includes everything you need to know about publishers, agents, and the track to success. more...
Write for Childrenby Andrew Melrose
RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 35.95This short guide to creative writing for children is based on the author's own successful writing course. Andrew Melrose provides guidance on every aspect of the process of writing for children. more...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books, 2nd Editionby Harold D. Underdown; Lynne Rominge
Alpha Books 2001; US$ 13.99Children's book publishing is one of the most difficult fields of publishing for new authors to get into. "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books" gives potential authors tips, inside information, and detailed instructions for everything from how to prepare a proposal to how to get an agent. Detailing the differences between picture books, juvenile fiction, and the young adult novel, the book also covers branding, series, and licensing, discusses writing styles and character development, and explains forming illustrator partnerships. more...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published, 2Eby Sheree Bykofsky; Jennifer Basye Sande
Alpha Books 2000; US$ 9.99Getting a novel or other work published remains one of the most mysterious processes in business today. For writers, the mystery of getting published resides in unanswered questions. Do I have to have an agent? What will an agent do for me? How does publishing work? How much do I get paid? How do I protect my work? And most importantly, what happens in those mysterious agent/author lunches? Using the comprehensive and easy-to-read format of the Complete Idiot's Guide series, the Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published, 2E, gives new and experienced authors alike tips, advice and practical step-by-step instructions for writing book proposals and query letters, pitching ideas to agents and editors and writing outlines and sample chapters.... more...