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How to Be Your Own Literary Agent: An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published

How to Be Your Own Literary Agent: An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published

Curtis, Richard

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CareersBusiness of WritingGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0618380418
ISBN13: 9780618380411
Publisher: Harper Business
Published: Nov 17 2003
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.53 Depth: 8.29
Language: English
How to Be Your Own Literary Agent takes the mystery out of book publishing for any writer, published or not. Richard Curtis -- a top literary agent for more than thirty years -- provides a comprehensive practical overview of the publishing process, from submissions to contract negotiations to subsidiary rights to marketing, publicity, and beyond. He also gives away trade secrets and invaluable wisdom -- candid advice that can be found nowhere else. Now completely revised and expanded, How to Be Your Own Literary Agent is essential reading for all writers.

* Big publishers, small publishers, self-publishers, e-publishers: how to keep up in a rapidly changing business * The new breed of busy literary editors: how to find them and know what they're looking for * What the electronic revolution means to you, and how to take advantage of it * How to know your publishing rights and negotiate effectively * How to have a say in your book's design, jacket, and promotion * How book chains and superstores have altered publishing -- and what that means for you

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