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How to Get Happily Published, Fifth Edition A Complete and Candid Guide

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ISBN-10: 0062735098

ISBN-13: 9780062735096

Edition: 5th 1998

Authors: Judith Appelbaum, Applebaum

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The classic, bestselling guide to getting published In the 20 years since it first appeared, hundreds of thousands of writers'professionals as well as beginners--have read, followed and benefited from How to Get Happily Published. This new edition adds material on making deals with publishers (and what's important), working with small publishers (and when that's preferable), capitalizing on contacts (and where to make them), deciding whether to self-publish (and how much that costs), using new electronic media (to publish; to get information, publicity, promotion and sales; and to connect with enthusiastic readers), and making your work sell better (whoever the publisher is). Plus hundreds…    
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Book details

List price: $15.99
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/8/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.07" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Judith Appelbaum--who's been a columnist and reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, an editor of Harper's and the managing editor of Publisher's Weekly --is managing director of Sensible Solutions, Inc., the New York book marketing firm. Winner of the Publishers Marketing Association Benjamin Franklin Award for Lifetime Achievement, she serves on of the faculty of the Publishing Institute at the University of Denver and is a leader in industry efforts to improve royalty payments for the benefit of authors and publishers alike.

Acknowledgments
Connections, or Welcome to the 20th-Anniversary Edition
Initiation
What the Pros Know
Buying Advice and Assistance
The Plain Truth About Agents
Who Do You Know?
Shaping Subject Matter
Openings, or Where to Submit Your Manuscript
Procedures, or How to Submit Your Manuscript
A Note on Improving Your Vision
Getting What's Coming to You
Editing, Copy-editing, Design, Production and Part-and-Parcel Advertising
Why and How to Be Your Own Best Sales Force
The Case for Doing It Yourself
Creation Processes: From Editing to Entity
Managing Sales
Finding Funding
Spin-offs
Righting the Scales of Success
A Comprehensive Roundup
Getting the Words Right Resources
A Foot in the Door Resources
The Sale and Its Sequels Resources
The Self-Publishing Option Resources
Money Resources
Index