Getting Your Book Published For Dummies

Getting Your Book Published For Dummies is your complete guide to realizing whatever gem of an idea you€ve been carrying with you. If you€ve ever thought, €œthis would make a really good book,€ be it the next great American novel or a guide to naming babies, here€s your chance to put pen to paper and find out! Written from both sides of the editor€s desk €“ by a widely published writer and a HarperCollins veteran publisher €“ this guide puts in your hand the advice you need to:

• Pick an idea
• Approach the publisher
• Craft proposals and queries
• Work with agents, or act as your own
• Self-publish
• Negotiate a contract
• Create the actual book
• Sell your published book

Full of examples, proposals, query letters, and war stories drawn from the authors€ extensive experience, Getting Your Book Published For Dummies shows you how to clear all the hurdles faced by today€s writers €“ freeing up precious time for you to refine your manuscript. You€ll get the inside scoop on:

• Titling your book
• Major publishers, smaller houses, niche publishers, university presses, and spiritual and religious publishers
• The 12 elements of a successful nonfiction proposal
• How editors read queries
• Submitting fiction
• Publishing outside the box
• And much more

Getting Your Book Published For Dummies is the clear, A-Z handbook that makes the entire process  plain and practicable. You don€t need to be a celebrity. You don€t need to be some kind of publishing insider. All you need to do is write.