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1,818 Ways to Write Better & Get Publishedby Scott EdelsteinISBN 0898797780 (0-89879-778-0)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '1,818 Ways to Write Better & Get Published'Book summary:You've set up your work space. Check. You've outlined your plot. Check. You've researched the markets fo rthe writing you do. Check. [via]
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2006 Writers Marketby Katie Brogan, Robert Lee Brewer, Joanna MastersonISBN 1582973946 (1-58297-394-6)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '2006 Writers Market'Book summary:Providing writers with instant access to up-to-date contact information, Writer's Market Deluxe Edition is the most cutting-edge resource available. Along with the invaluable information found in Writer's Market, this deluxe edition: Includes a one-year subscription to WritersMarket.com Provides access to over 1,000 additional markets online Features access to interactive tools like the Submission Tracker, which allows writers to stay on top of their submissions With all the information that's made Writer's Market a success, the deluxe edition takes it to the online level - making it truly an essential tool. [via]
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Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Futureby Jason EpsteinISBN 0393322343 (0-393-32234-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future'Book summary:As editor-publisher to some of the 20th-century's greatest writers (Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, Jane Jacobs) as well as the virtual inventor of the trade paperback (meaning the "quality" type, as opposed to the drugstore mass-market), Jason Epstein is one of those rare publishing-world types who is as invested in the editorial creation of a good book as in its marketing and sales. It is that dual perspective that has guided his half-century-long publishing career and that makes this compact yet expansive professional memoir such a lively, illuminating read for anyone curious how current trade publishing--basically popular general-interest fiction and nonfiction--became obsessed with a narrow pool of quickie bestsellers to the neglect of the far greater mass of slow-burners (known in the biz as "midlist") or of the perennial sellers from years past ("backlist"). But, Epstein follows up with great enthusiasm, the time is not long before the book biz will morph into a new cyberversion of the quirky, intimate "cottage industry" that it was in its precorporate era.
It was in that era that Epstein came of age as a publisher, first at Doubleday in the 1950s, where he founded the successful Anchor Books, the first line of high-quality paperback reissues of classics. The four succeeding decades he spent at Random House, which in that time grew from a family-type shop into one of the largest and most profitable trade publishing houses in the U.S. (currently owned by the German media titan Bertelsmann). Epstein's chronicle of New York publishing jumps around nimbly in time--at one point, all the way back to the 19th century--but it is in recounting the heady, culturally efflorescent postwar years that he waxes most tender, regaling us with vignettes of Ralph Ellison, Mary McCarthy, John O'Hara, Frank O'Hara, W.H. Auden, Chester Kallman, and John Ashbery. Throughout, his entrepreneurial spirit in the service of good books is evident--first in the founding (along with, among others, his wife Barbara) of the still-extant New York Review of Books, then in the thorny 30-year process of publishing the classics imprint Library of America, and in the launching of The Reader's Catalog, a mail-order service from which customers could choose from what nearly every book on the planet in print--and which deservedly has been called the hard-copy precursor to the very site you're browsing right now.
Like The Business of Books, the recent memoir from former Pantheon Books head Andre Schiffrin (Epstein's longtime colleague within Random House), Epstein's book decries the extent to which superstores like Barnes & Noble have forced the high-stakes (and seldom fruitful) corporatization of book publishing. But Epstein prefers to look past the current situation to an imminent day when writers will sell directly to readers over the Internet, a format that will still demand the services of editors, publicists, and marketers but will cut out the costly middlemen of publishing companies, distributors, and superstores (though not small booksellers, he assures us, which nurture bonds among booklovers that even the Web can't sever). Yes, there's money to be made in trade books, Epstein asserts, but not necessarily overnight. And in this brisk, affable, and forward-looking volume, Epstein's own broad-ranging experience in the book biz seems to bear out his recurring theme: do it for love, not money, and the money (if not necessarily the millions) will eventually follow. --Timothy Murphy [via]
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Booksby Howard GreenfeldISBN 0517568411 (0-517-56841-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took over Publishing and Changed the Way We Readby Andre SchiffrinISBN 1859847633 (1-85984-763-3)
Hardcover, Verso Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Business of Books : How the International Conglomerates Took over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read'Book summary:A riveting chronicle of the rise and fall of the American reader. Village Voice
Post-war American publishing has been ruthlessly transformed since Andre Schiffrin joined its ranks in 1956. Gone is a plethora of small but prestigious houses that often put ideas before profit in their publishing decisions, sometimes even deliberately. Now six behemoths share 80% of the market and profit margin is all.
Andre Schiffrin can write about these changes with authority because he witnessed them from inside a conglomerate, as head of Pantheon, co-founded by his father, bought (and sold) by Random House. And he can write about them with candor because he is no longer on the inside, having quit corporate publishing in disgust to set up a flourishing independent house, The New Press. Schiffrin's evident affection for his authors sparkles throughout a story woven around publishing the work of those such as Studs Terkel, Noam Chomsky, Gunnar Myrdal, George Kennan, Juliet Mitchell, R. D. Laing, Eric Hobsbawm and E.P.Thompson.
Part-memoir, part-history, here is an account of the collapsing standards of contemporary publishing that is irascible, acute and passionate. An engaging counterpoint to recent, celebratory memoirs of the industry written by those with more stock options and fewer scruples than Schiffrin, The Business of Books warns of the danger to adventurous, intelligent publishing in the bullring of today's marketplace. [via]More editions of The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read:
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The Chicago Manual of StyleISBN 0226104036 (0-226-10403-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This BookBook summary:What can we say? This weighty tome is the essential reference for all who work with words--writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, publishers, and students. Discover who Ibid is, how to deftly avoid the split infinitive, and how to format your manuscripts to impress any professor or editor (no, putting it in a blue plastic folder is just not enough). [via]
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The Chicago Manual of Style: For Authors, Editors, and Copywritersby University of ChicagoISBN 0226103900 (0-226-10390-0)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chicago Manual of Style: For Authors, Editors, and Copywriters'Book summary:Writers Style Manual Grammar Check Guide- For English Majors and Wordsmith's this book is the magic spell put on an author's works. Here's your Charm- it weighs only 3lbs. [via]
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The Complete Guide to Self-Publishingby Tom Ross, Marilyn Heimberg RossISBN 1582970912 (1-58297-091-2)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing'Book summary:"Self-publishing," say authors Tom and Marilyn Ross, "is a perfect example of the American dream." The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing, then, is an aspiring self-publisher's dream. "This isn't a book of fancy theory," as the authors put it; "it's a practical handbook of state-of-the-art specifics." In 521 pages, it lays out everything you need to know to publish your own books, from start-up considerations to the possibility of selling to a big publisher: how to choose a name for your press, how to get an ISBN, what cover designs cost, how to find a reliable printer, how to price your book, where to find lighter-weight shipping envelopes, how to generate working capital. The authors' encyclopedic grasp of the ins and outs of self-publishing is matched by their natural good sense about self-promotion. Turn your signings into events, they recommend; get your books into a variety of venues; use the books as fundraisers for organizations; get online and get reviewed online. The price of this book is negligible considering the cost of proper self-publishing (between $12,000 and $25,000), and, oh, the headaches it will spare you! --Jane Steinberg [via]
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The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing: Everything You Need to Know to Write, Publish, Promote, and Sell Your Own Bookby Tom Ross, Marilyn Heimberg RossISBN 0898791677 (0-89879-167-7)
Hardcover, Writer's Digest Books
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Magazine Articlesby Sheree Bykofsky, Jennifer Basye Sander, Lynne RomingerISBN 0028638352 (0-02-863835-2)
Softcover, Alpha Books
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The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing And Corporate Communicationsby Amy EinsohnISBN 0520246888 (0-520-24688-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing And Corporate Communications'Book summary:The Copyeditor's Handbook is a lively, practical manual for newcomers to publishing and for experienced editors who want to fine-tune their skills or broaden their understanding of the craft. Addressed to copyeditors in book publishing and corporate communications, this thoughtful handbook explains what copyeditors do, what they look for when they edit a manuscript, and how they develop the editorial judgment needed to make sound decisions.[via]
This revised edition reflects the most recent editions of The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.), the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.), and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.).More editions of The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing And Corporate Communications:
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The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications With Exercises and Answer Keysby Amy EinsohnISBN 0520218353 (0-520-21835-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications With Exercises and Answer Keys'Book summary:The Copyeditor's Handbook is a lively, practical manual for newcomers to publishing and for experienced editors who want to fine-tune their skills or broaden their understanding of the craft. Addressed to copyeditors in book publishing and corporate communications, this thoughtful handbook explains what copyeditors do, what they look for when they edit a manuscript, and how they develop the editorial judgment needed to make sound decisions.[via]
This book may be used for self-instruction or as a textbook in copyediting classes. The fifteen practice exercises--ranging from sets of sentences to 900-word articles--are accompanied by answer keys and detailed line-by-line explanations. Readers will also welcome the glossary of copyediting jargon, glossary of grammar terms, and a checklist for analyzing the idiosyncrasies of a publisher's "house style." All editors will want to keep this handy reference right next to their copy of The Chicago Manual of Style, Words into Type, or the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.More editions of The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications With Exercises and Answer Keys:
- The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications With Exercises and Answer Keys: ISBN 0520218345 (0-520-21834-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr - The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications With Exercises and Answer Keys: ISBN 0520218353 (0-520-21835-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
- The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications With Exercises and Answer Keys: ISBN 0520218345 (0-520-21834-5)
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Dan Poynter's Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, And Sell Your Own Bookby Dan PoynterISBN 1568601344 (1-56860-134-4)
Softcover, Para Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dan Poynter's Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, And Sell Your Own Book'Book summary:The bible on self-publishing. Highly recommended by virtually everyone in the industry -- even other authors of books on the subject (many of whom probably followed the advice in Poynter's previous 11 editions). [via]
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Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Doby Gerald GrossISBN 0802132634 (0-8021-3263-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do'Book summary:An indispensable guide for editors, would-be editors, and especially writers who want to understand the publishing process. In this classic handbook, top professionals write about the special demands and skills necessary for particular areas of expertise--mass market, romance, special markets, and more.[via]More editions of Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do:
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The Elements of Styleby William Strunk, E. B. White, Maira KalmanISBN 1594200696 (1-59420-069-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Style'Book summary:This classic reference is a must-have for any student or writer. In this brief handbook, Strunk identifies the principal requirements of proper American English style and concentrates on the most often violated rules of composition. Authoritative and engagingly written, this is simply the greatest book of its kind.[via] -
The Elements of Style: A Style Guide for Writersby William StrunkISBN 097522980X (0-9752298-0-X)
Softcover, Kt Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Style: A Style Guide for Writers'Book summary:Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. [via]
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The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writersby Betsy LernerISBN 1573228575 (1-57322-857-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers'Book summary:One feels for Betsy Lerner's writers. Oh, sure, Lerner must be a fabulous agent. But too bad for them: In gaining her as an agent, they lost her as an editor. How rare and wonderful it must have been to have such an advocate, advisor, and, yes, admirer so firmly ensconced in publisher territory (at various times, Houghton Mifflin, Ballantine, Simon & Schuster, and Doubleday). In The Forest for the Trees, Lerner reflects on writing and publishing from an editor's point of view. There are so many books by writers and agents promising to disclose what editors really want; here, finally, is one straight from the source. Like all experienced editors, Lerner has seen writers at their best, and at their worst. "Like shrinks," she says, editors "have a privileged and exclusive view into a writer's psyche, from the ecstasy of acquisition to the agony of the remainder table."
To writers, particularly unpublished ones, editors can seem imposing figures determined to thwart their success. They won't take calls, they don't offer feedback--sometimes they don't respond to queries at all. Guess what: Editors don't lug home hundreds of pounds of manuscripts to read each year because they aren't looking for good writing. "An editor gets off," says Lerner, "on the thrill of discovering a new writer." Editors crave "succinct, well-written cover letters," inspiration that comes from within (as opposed to from the bestseller list), and "catchy, clearly targeted title[s]." They detest unsolicited phone calls, "query letters that sound as if they were penned by Crazy Eddie," and writers who offer to "write it however I want it" (it's "like saying I'll be straight or gay; you tell me, I have no preference"). Lerner is aware of how excruciating it is for a writer to wait for feedback on his or her work. But she also lets writers in on a little secret of her own. "I'm always anxious about the author's response," she confides. "Will he or she take to my editing?" --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious About Serious Booksby William GermanoISBN 0226288447 (0-226-28844-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious About Serious Books'Book summary:Writers and publishers depend on one another, but it often seems as if they speak two different languages. Getting It Published is a lively, insider's guide to academic publishing--a book that will tell you not only how publishing works, but how you can make it work for you. Written by a veteran editor with experience in both the university press and commercial worlds, the book fields the big questions in a scholar's life. Why do editors choose some books and decline others? How does a writer decide where to submit a project? How does the review process work, and why is it necessary? What can an author expect from a publishing house--before, during, and after publication? William Germano answers these questions and more, and along the way, offers encouragement, tips, and warnings.[via]
This savvy guide unravels the mysteries of publishing and walks you through the process from start to finish. You'll learn how to think about your book before you submit it and what you need to know about your contract. With wit and humor, Germano also addresses some of the finer points of publishing etiquette, including how--and how not--to approach a busy editor and how to work with other publishing professionals on matters of design, marketing, and publicity. Graduate students, recent Ph.D.'s, and experienced authors alike will appreciate the chapters on "Quotations, Pictures, and Other Headaches" and on compiling and editing collections and anthologies.
"Scholarly publishing is a big, noisy, conversation about the ideas that shape our world," Germano writes, "Here's how to make your book part of that conversation."More editions of Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious About Serious Books:
How to Get Happily Publishedby Judith AppelbaumISBN 0062735098 (0-06-273509-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Hardcover, Harper & Row - How to Get Happily Published: ISBN 0062715445 (0-06-271544-5)
Hardcover, HarperPerennial - How to Get Happily Published: ISBN 0452263077 (0-452-26307-7)
Hardcover, Plume - How to Get Happily Published: ISBN 0801647967 (0-8016-4796-7)
Hardcover, Mosby - How to Get Happily Published: ISBN 0062735098 (0-06-273509-8)
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How to Get Happily Published/a Complete and Candid Guideby Judith ApplebaumISBN 0062731335 (0-06-273133-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Get Happily Published/a Complete and Candid Guide'Book summary:Judith Appelbaum has analyzed publishing as a columnist and reviewer for The New York Times Book Review and as managing editor of Publishers Weekly and now directs a book marketing firm that evolved out of this book. Includes practical and informative chapters on queries, options, agents, major changes in the publishing industry, and reviews of hundreds of writer's resources for fiction and non-fiction writers alike. [via]
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How to Start and Run a Small Book Publishing Company: A Small Business Guide to Self-Publishing and Independent Publishingby Peter I. HupaloISBN 0967162432 (0-9671624-3-2)
Softcover, H C M Pub
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How to Write a Book Proposalby Michael LarsenISBN 1582972516 (1-58297-251-6)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Write a Book Proposal'Book summary:The Source for Book Proposals Success!How to Write a Book Proposal is THE resource for getting your work published. This newly revised edition of the Writer's Digest Books classic outlines how to create an effective, nonfiction book proposal in a clear, step-by-step manner. You'll learn the keys to a successful book proposal and how to:Test-market the potential of a book idea and effectively communicate that potential in a proposalChoose the best agents and editors for a particular proposalCreate a professional-looking proposal packagePredispose publishers to make their best offerNotes agent and author Michael Larsen also provides insider insights into the publishing industry as well as a plethora of newly updated information including:Recent changes in the publishing industryUpdated trend informationNew sample proposalsExpanded instructions for creating outlinesRecent changes in the publishing industryUpdated trend informationNew sample proposalsExpanded instructions for creating outlinesYou'll also find complete guidelines to becoming an effective self-promoter. How to Write a Book Proposal is a must-have for every writer! [via]
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- How to Write a Book Proposal: ISBN 0898794196 (0-89879-419-6)
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Softcover, F & W Pubns - How to Write a Book Proposal: ISBN 0898791715 (0-89879-171-5)
Hardcover, F & W Pubns - How to Write a Book Proposal: ISBN 1582972516 (1-58297-251-6)
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- How to Write a Book Proposal: ISBN 0898794196 (0-89879-419-6)
Jump Start Your Book Sales: A Money-Making Guide for Authors, Independent Publishers and Small Pressesby Tom Ross, Marilyn Heimberg RossISBN 0918880416 (0-918880-41-6)
Softcover, Communication Creativity
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Kirsch's Handbook Of Publishing Law: For Authors, Publishers, Editors And Agentsby Jonathan KirschISBN 0918226333 (0-918226-33-3)
Softcover, Acrobat Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kirsch's Handbook Of Publishing Law: For Authors, Publishers, Editors And Agents'Book summary:Kirsch, a prominent intellectual property attorney and Los Angeles Times columnist, has created a clear, comprehensive, up-to-date guide to publishing law in this handbook, which follows the path of a publishing project. From protection of the original idea, coauthorship, agents, and packaging, through a clause-by-clause consideration of a typical book publishing contract, to legal aspects of manuscript preparation, copyright registration, electronic and subsidiary rights, remaindering, and reversion, this manual is as lively as it is useful. Sidebars provide anecdotes, tips, publishing 'war stories', and interesting illustrations of key points. [via]
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Looking Good in Printby Roger C. ParkerISBN 193309706X (1-933097-06-X)
Softcover, Manning Publications Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Good in Print'Book summary:There is an argument for including a guide to good layout with every DTP application sold. Would you attempt to drive a car, or fly a plane for the first time, having read only the owner's handbook? While the consequences of poor layout may be less catastrophic than a road accident the results can nonetheless be ugly and unpleasant.
Whatever your view, if such a style guide were mandatory, Looking Good in Print would be an excellent candidate. Roger Parker and Patrick Berry have achieved the difficult task of covering all the important design fundamentals in a book probably no bigger than the manual that came with your DTP application, and certainly a lot more readable.
The emphasis throughout is on providing you with the information you need to design better-looking, and therefore more successful publications. If you read only the first two chapters you will be at least as well acquainted with the basic principles of page layout as most magazine designers appear to be.
Probably the best advice--not to go anywhere near your computer until you have sketched out a few ideas with pencil and paper--comes right at the start. Every aspect of theory and practice discussed is illustrated with clear examples which occupy at least half the available space. This means you can learn quickly--by seeing how it should be done, rather than reading about it.
The authors rightly recognise that good design, especially for beginners, is more often a case of not getting it wrong, than getting it right. So, for the crash course, once you've read the first two chapters, skip to the last two--Common Design Pitfalls and Redesign, which display in graphic detail all the ugly layout accidents just waiting to befall you and how to avoid them. --Ken McMahon [via]
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Looking Good in Print: A Guide to Basic Design for Desktop Publishingby Roger C. ParkerISBN 1566040477 (1-56604-047-7)
Softcover, Ventana Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Good in Print: A Guide to Basic Design for Desktop Publishing'Book summary:There is an argument for including a guide to good layout with every DTP application sold. Would you attempt to drive a car, or fly a plane for the first time, having read only the owner's handbook? While the consequences of poor layout may be less catastrophic than a road accident the results can nonetheless be ugly and unpleasant.
Whatever your view, if such a style guide were mandatory, Looking Good in Print would be an excellent candidate. Roger Parker and Patrick Berry have achieved the difficult task of covering all the important design fundamentals in a book probably no bigger than the manual that came with your DTP application, and certainly a lot more readable.
The emphasis throughout is on providing you with the information you need to design better-looking, and therefore more successful publications. If you read only the first two chapters you will be at least as well acquainted with the basic principles of page layout as most magazine designers appear to be.
Probably the best advice--not to go anywhere near your computer until you have sketched out a few ideas with pencil and paper--comes right at the start. Every aspect of theory and practice discussed is illustrated with clear examples which occupy at least half the available space. This means you can learn quickly--by seeing how it should be done, rather than reading about it.
The authors rightly recognise that good design, especially for beginners, is more often a case of not getting it wrong, than getting it right. So, for the crash course, once you've read the first two chapters, skip to the last two--Common Design Pitfalls and Redesign, which display in graphic detail all the ugly layout accidents just waiting to befall you and how to avoid them. --Ken McMahon [via]
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- Looking Good in Print: A Guide to Basic Design for Desktop Publishing: ISBN 0940087057 (0-940087-05-7)
Softcover, Ventana Press - Looking Good in Print: A Guide to Basic Design for Desktop Publishing: ISBN 0940087324 (0-940087-32-4)
Hardcover, Ventana Press - Looking Good in Print: A Guide to Basic Design for Desktop Publishing: ISBN 1566040477 (1-56604-047-7)
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- Looking Good in Print: A Guide to Basic Design for Desktop Publishing: ISBN 0940087057 (0-940087-05-7)
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Making Bookby Teresa Nielsen HaydenISBN 0915368552 (0-915368-55-2)
Softcover, Nesfa Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Book'Book summary:Trade paperback collection of the author's non-fiction writing. [via]
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The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Noviceby Robin WilliamsISBN 1566091594 (1-56609-159-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice'Book summary:Subtitled Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice, this book is for anyone who has to design a newsletter, job ad, flyer, business card, memo, report or whatever, but has no idea what separates good design from bad. Except, of course, that the first looks clear, professional, sophisticated and right, and the second is an ugly, unreadable mess.
Robin Williams has an easily readable style and manages to communicate sometimes complex and sophisticated concepts simply and directly. She rightly assumes that, though most people can recognise bad design when they see it, they don't know why it's bad and are therefore powerless to fix the same problems in their own work.
The bulk of the book is given over to explaining how, by sticking to four basic design principles--contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity--you can eliminate design gremlins from your work. In searching for a memorable and appropriate acronym for this principled approach, Williams admits she was only semi-successful.
The second half of the book deals with how to use type. Once again the approach is to explain simply, directly and with illustrated examples how the relationship between typefaces is defined.
As a college teacher, Williams can't resist the temptation to dot little quizzes, tests and mini-projects throughout the text. These are mostly good fun and reinforce what you've read, though even if you decide to ignore them they won't spoil your enjoyment of the book.
The Non-Designer's Design Book is the kind of book you could read in your lunch break. Its attitude is more "sketch in the margin with a pencil", than "complete the projects on the CD". It would be an ideal primer for anyone starting a design course, as well as those who want to improve the look of their memos. --Ken McMahon [via]
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Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write: How to Get a Contract and Advance Before Writing Your Bookby Elizabeth LyonISBN 0936085312 (0-936085-31-2)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Novel & Short Story Writers Market 2006by Lauren Mosko, Michael SchweerISBN 1582973970 (1-58297-397-0)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novel & Short Story Writers Market 2006'Book summary:For twenty-five years, this has been the only reference book on the market published expressly to help fiction writers find the best homes for their work 2006 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market includes: Over 1,500 fiction publishing opportunities in the US and Elsewhere with specific contact information, submission guidelines, and editorial needs More than 100 pages of instruction and inspiration, so readers can learn the basics of the craft and the business New interviews with top names in the field, including Jonathan Lethem, Margot Livesey, and Anne Perry 2006 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market offers readers the insight and advice needed to give their manuscripts the edge over others in the slush pile. [via]
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The Novel Writer's Toolkitby Bob MayerISBN 1582973202 (1-58297-320-2)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Novel Writer's Toolkit'Book summary:Here's the book writers have been waiting for! Covering every aspect of the creative journey, Living the Writing Life shows readers how to:
*Develop salable ideas
*Turn ideas into stories
*Set a writing schedule and stick to it
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*Dissect best-sellers in order to discover what makes them work
*Develop compelling characters and plot
*Write dialogue that sounds real and engaging
*Find an agent or an editor who will help publish your work
*Put their ideas into story form
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*Stay alive and inspired through it allAdvice is given in a straightforward and usable manner, laying out and examining all of the tools available to writers, from imagination to technology. [via]
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craftby Stephen KingISBN 1416549862 (1-4165-4986-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Writing'Book summary:Short and snappy as it is, Stephen King's On Writing really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is terrific stuff, a vivid description of how a writer grew out of a misbehaving kid. You're right there with the young author as he's tormented by poison ivy, gas-passing babysitters, uptight schoolmarms, and a laundry job nastier than Jack London's. It's a ripping yarn that casts a sharp light on his fiction. This was a child who dug Yvette Vickers from Attack of the Giant Leeches, not Sandra Dee. "I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash." But massive reading on all literary levels was a craving just as crucial, and soon King was the published author of "I Was a Teen-Age Graverobber." As a young adult raising a family in a trailer, King started a story inspired by his stint as a janitor cleaning a high-school girls locker room. He crumpled it up, but his writer wife retrieved it from the trash, and using her advice about the girl milieu and his own memories of two reviled teenage classmates who died young, he came up with Carrie. King gives us lots of revelations about his life and work. The kidnapper character in Misery, the mind-possessing monsters in The Tommyknockers, and the haunting of the blocked writer in The Shining symbolized his cocaine and booze addiction (overcome thanks to his wife's intervention, which he describes). "There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing."
King also evokes his college days and his recovery from the van crash that nearly killed him, but the focus is always on what it all means to the craft. He gives you a whole writer's "tool kit": a reading list, writing assignments, a corrected story, and nuts-and-bolts advice on dollars and cents, plot and character, the basic building block of the paragraph, and literary models. He shows what you can learn from H.P. Lovecraft's arcane vocabulary, Hemingway's leanness, Grisham's authenticity, Richard Dooling's artful obscenity, Jonathan Kellerman's sentence fragments. He explains why Hart's War is a great story marred by a tin ear for dialogue, and how Elmore Leonard's Be Cool could be the antidote.
King isn't just a writer, he's a true teacher. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Other Side of the Storyby Marian KeyesISBN 1842231499 (1-84223-149-9)
Hardcover, Poolbeg
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Print-on-demand Book Publishing: A New Approach To Printing And Marketing Books For Publishers And Authorsby Morris RosenthalISBN 0972380132 (0-9723801-3-2)
Softcover, Foner Books
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological AssociationISBN 1557987912 (1-55798-791-2)
Softcover, Amer Psychological Assn
Find This BookBook summary:In addition to providing clear guidance on grammar, the mechanics of w riting, and APA style, the Publication Manual offers an authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system and comprehensive covera ge of the treatment of numbers, metrication, statistical and mathemati cal data, tables, and figures for use in writing, reports, or presenta tions. [via]
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Associationby American Psychological AssociationISBN 0912704578 (0-912704-57-8)
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Publicize Your Book!: An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book the Attention It Deservesby Jacqueline DevalISBN 0399528636 (0-399-52863-6)
Softcover, Perigee
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Publishing for Profit: Successful Bottom-line Management for Book Publishersby Jan NathanISBN 1556526172 (1-55652-617-2)
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Publishing for Profit: Successful Bottom-Line Management for Book Publishersby Thomas Woll, Jan NathanISBN 1556524625 (1-55652-462-5)
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Self-Publishing Manual - Large Printby Dan PoynterISBN 1568601158 (1-56860-115-8)
Softcover, Para Publishing
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Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Bookby Dan PoynterISBN 1568600038 (1-56860-003-8)
Softcover, Para Pub
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Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Bookby Susan PageISBN 0553061771 (0-553-06177-1)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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Simple Pineapple Crochetby Nihon Vogue StaffISBN 0870409514 (0-87040-951-4)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundanceby Gabriel Zaid, Natasha WimmerISBN 158988003X (1-58988-003-X)
Softcover, Paul Dry Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance'Book summary:[via]"Reading liberates the reader and transports him from his book to a reading of himself and all of life. It leads him to participate in conversations, and in some cases to arrange them . . . It could even be said that to publish a book is to insert it into the middle of a conversation." (from So Many Books)
Join the conversation! In So Many Books, Gabriel Zaid offers his observations on the literary condition: a highly original analysis of the predicament that readers, authors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, and teachers find themselves in today--when there are simply more books than any of us can contemplate."...Zaid traces the preoccupation with reading back through Dr. Johnson, Seneca, and even the Bible ('Of making many books there is no end'). He emerges as a playful celebrant of literary proliferation, noting that there is a new book published every thirty seconds, and optimistically points out that publishers who moan about low sales 'see as a failure what is actually a blessing: The book business, unlike newspapers, films, or television, is viable on a small scale.' Zaid, who claims to own more than ten thousand books, says he has sometimes thought that 'a chastity glove for authors who cant contain themselves' would be a good idea. Nonetheless, he cheerfully opines that 'the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.'"--The New Yorker
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Starting & Running a Successful Newsletter or Magazineby Cheryl WoodardISBN 1413300839 (1-4133-0083-9)
Softcover, Nolo
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Starting & Running a Successful Newsletter or Magazineby Woodard CherylISBN 1413305237 (1-4133-0523-7)
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Stet: A Memoirby Diana AthillISBN 1862073880 (1-86207-388-0)
Hardcover, Granta Books
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Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Serious Nonfiction--And Get It Publishedby Susan Rabiner, Alfred FortunatoISBN 0393324613 (0-393-32461-3)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Words into Typeby Marjorie E. Skillin, Robert Malcolm GayISBN 0139642625 (0-13-964262-5)
Hardcover, Pearson P T R
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