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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How Novels Get Sold | |
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| Eight Ways to Sell Your Novel | |
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| The Ninth Way | |
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| The Challenge of Sales | |
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| Breakthrough: "Investing in People" | |
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| Beginning your Marketing Tool Kit | |
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| Overview of Publishers | |
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| Product Lines | |
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| The Jobs of Literary Agent, Editor, and Writer | |
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| Coping With Trends | |
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| Money Matters | |
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| A Foot in the Door: "Getting an Agent; Firing an Agent" | |
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| Ready to Market? | |
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| First--Finish | |
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| Diagnostic Checklists | |
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| Writer's Critique Groups | |
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| Professional Editors | |
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| Categorize your Novel | |
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| Sixteen Ways to Describe your Novel | |
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| Tempting Titles | |
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| Breakthrough: "Long Deserved; Long Overdue" | |
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| Dissecting the Synopsis | |
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| Content | |
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| A Model Synopsis | |
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| Style | |
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| A Foot in the Door: "Learning Through Critique" | |
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| Studying the Synopsis | |
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| Nine Synopsis Applications | |
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| Medical Thriller | |
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| Historical Mainstream | |
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| Horror | |
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| Generation-X (off-beat mainstream) | |
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| A Foot in the Door: "Running the Writer's Iditarod" | |
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| Dissecting the Query | |
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| Queries Defined | |
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| Lead | |
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| Model Query Letter | |
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| Body | |
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| Closing | |
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| Style | |
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| Types and Uses | |
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| A Foot in the Door: "Overcoming Marketing Block" | |
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| Successful Queries | |
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| Literary--Contemporary | |
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| Literary--Generation-X, Magical Realism | |
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| Mainstream--Historical & Biographical | |
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| Mainstream--Historical | |
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| Mainstream--Historical Epic | |
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| Mainstream--Contemporary Christian | |
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| Mainstream--Contemporary, Adventure | |
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| Mainstream--Contemporary, Gay/Bisexual | |
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| Mystery | |
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| Suspense | |
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| Speculative Fiction | |
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| Fantasy | |
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| Romance--Regency | |
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| Romance--Western Historical | |
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| Children's 9-12 | |
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| Breakthrough: "Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do." | |
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| The Sample Chapter Tells All | |
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| Which Sample Chapters? | |
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| First Chapters--Expectations | |
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| First Pages--Expectations | |
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| To Prologue or Not to Prologue | |
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| Mechanics of Format and Submission | |
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| Breakthrough: "Every Minute Counts" | |
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| Researching Publishers and Agents | |
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| Setting Up Your Own File | |
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| Publishers' Specifications | |
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| Directories | |
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| Trade Journals | |
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| Classification of Literary Agents | |
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| Databases, Acknowledgments, & Word-of-Mouth Opinions | |
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| Breakthrough: "Bring the Body and the Mind Will Follow" | |
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| Systematic Marketing | |
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| Your Marketing Target | |
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| Executing Your Plan | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Breakthrough: "The Power of Persistence" | |
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| Goodbye Rejection: Hello Re-direction | |
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| The Re-direction Process Defined | |
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| Consciousness Raising 101 | |
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| Dreamcrushers | |
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| Four Types of Rejection Letters | |
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| Personal Re-direction | |
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| Breakthrough: "The Ideal Writer-Agent Partnership" | |
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| Choosing the Right Agent for You | |
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| 30 Questions to Ask the Agent You May Hire | |
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| Red Flags in the Author-Agent Relationship | |
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| Breakthrough: Writing from Soul" | |
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| The First Sale and Beyond | |
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| Negotiating Your Own Book Contract | |
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| Agent or Lawyer for Hire | |
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| Agent-represented Negotiations | |
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| Shaping Your Career | |
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| Second-book Queries | |
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| Managing Success | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Sample Author/Agent Contract | |
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| Resource Directory | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |