Writing and Publishing Your Book
A Guide for Experts in Every Field
Melody Herr Ph.D.
- 152 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Writing and Publishing Your Book
A Guide for Experts in Every Field
Melody Herr Ph.D.
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Introducing the Expert
- 1. Developing Your Project: The Criteria for a Book
- 2. Designing Your Book: The Initial Structure
- 3. Writing Your Proposal: The Expert’s Portfolio
- 4. Investigating Your Publishing Options: The Search for a Partner
- 5. Launching Your Charm Offensive: Proposal Submission and Peer Review
- 6. Understanding Your Publishing Contract: The Author–Publisher Partnership
- 7. Drafting Your Manuscript: Performance and Presentation
- 8. Presenting Your Evidence: Quotations, Images, Tables, and Graphs
- 9. Preparing Your Final Manuscript: The Components of a Book
- 10. Publishing and Marketing Your Book: A Member of the Team
- Conclusion: Giving Back
- References
- Index