Thinking Like Your Editor How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction - and Get It Published

Name: Thinking Like Your Editor How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction - and Get It Published
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ISBN: 9780393038927

ISBN-10: 0393038920

ISBN-13: 9780393038927

Edition: 2002

Authors: Susan Rabiner, Alfred Fortunato

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Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 286
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.60" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



A Note to the Reader


Prologue: First, a little story ...


Introduction



Thinking Like an Editor: Audience, Audience, Audience



The Submission Package



How to Write a Proposal



Wrapping Up the Submission Package: The Table of Contents, the Sample Chapter, and Supporting Materials



Placing Your Manuscript with a Publisher: To Agent or Not to Agent, and Other Questions about the Publishing Acquisition Process



The Writing Process



A Question of Fairness and Other Limits of Argument in Serious Nonfiction



Using Narrative Tension



From Introduction to Epilogue: Writing Your Book Chapter by Chapter - and What to Do When You Get into Trouble



From Edition to Marketing to Publication



How to Be Published Well



Sample Proposal and Writing Sample


Acknowledgments


Index