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Theres never been a better time to be an author!
Books like the Harry Potter series create a media phenomenon, with people lining up and camping outside bookstores to purchase newly released titles. Yet book sales overall not just those of mega-sellers are on the rise, as more and more people seek knowledge and entertainment through reading. The Library of Congress currently registers about 60,000 new titles for copyright each year. 60,000 books by 60,000 authors. Imagine yourself as one.

Getting Your Book Published For Dummies is your complete guide to realizing whatever gem of an idea youve been carrying with you. If youve ever thought, this would make a really good book, be it the next great American novel or a guide to naming babies, heres your chance to put pen to paper and find out! Written from both sides of the editors 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 todays writers freeing up precious time for you to refine your manuscript. Youll 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 dont need to be a celebrity. You dont need to be some kind of publishing insider. All you need to do is write.

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    Getting Your Book Published For Dummies

    by Sarah Parsons Zackheim with Adrian Zackheim

    Foreword by Nelson DeMille

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    Getting Your Book Published For Dummies

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    Copyright 2000 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

    Published simultaneously in Canada

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

    Library of Congress Control Number.: 00-103366

    ISBN: 978-0-7645-5257-1

    Manufactured in the United States of America

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    About the Authors

    Sarah Parsons Zackheim worked in book publishing for nearly a decade before becoming a widely published freelance writer. Her tenure at several New York publishing firms, including Doubleday, New York Times Books, and William Morrow, provided invaluable insights as to exactly what publishers look for in submission materials. Ms. Zackheim has written four books as well as numerous articles for such magazines as Family Fun, Family Life, and Fairfield County. Acting as her own literary agent, she placed her third book with Three Rivers Press/Clarkson Potter for a six-figure advance.

    Adrian Zackheim is currently Associate Publisher of the General Books Group at HarperCollins Publishers and Editor in Chief of HarperInformation. He began his publishing career in the promotion department at G.P. Putnams Sons in 1975 and since then has worked as an editor of fiction and nonfiction at St. Martins Press, Doubleday, William Morrow, and HarperCollins. Getting Your Book Published For Dummies is his first book.

    The Zackheims live in Westport, Connecticut, with their two sons.

    Dedication

    To Alex Zackheim and David Parsons Zackheim two extraordinarily wise and talented young men. Their amazing resilience inspires me to keep writing, keep submitting, and keep getting published.

    Thanks, guys! This ones for you.

    Authors Acknowledgments

    The creation of a book takes more than just one person, and Id like to thank all of the people who had a part in bringing this book to life: Susan Halligan for the initial recommendation, IMG agent Mark Reiter whose persistence paid off, acquiring editor Tami Booth, project editor extraordinaire Kelly Ewing, acquisitions editor Karen Young, and the talented Betsy Lerner who has faithfully read the entire book for accuracy. Last, but far from least, my partner in more than just the creation of this book, Adrian Zackheim, who has weathered many long days and nights at my side.

    While to outsiders the world of book publishing may seem like an insular club of insensitive intellectuals who think nothing of firing off rejection letters, I can assure you that notion couldnt be farther from the truth. From the moment I stepped into my first publishing job as an assistant in the promotion department at Doubleday & Company, I have had the good fortune to work with, meet socially, and get to know some of the kindest, smartest, most interesting people imaginable and all of them love books! Thank you, all of you!

    Nicholas Latimer, Lisa Drew, Alex Hoyt, Susan Knopf, David and Nancy Gernert, Bill Barry, Shaye Arehart, Nancy Tuckerman, Kate Medina, Sally Arteseros, Sam Vaughan, Ken Lang, Hugh and Betsy Howard, John and Judy Coyne, Jack and Karen McKeown, Vicky Bijur and Ed Levine, John Sargeant Jr., Kathleen Maloney and Dominick Abel, Elisabeth Scharlatt, Jonathon Segal, Ruth Fecych, Larry Hughes, Juris Jurjevics, Pam Altschul, Adrienne Ingram, Jody Hotchkiss, Joni Evans, Wayne Kabak, Merrilee Heifetz and Brian DeFiore, Laureen Rowland, Liza Dawson, Roger Cooper, Sandy Dijkstra, Molly Friedrich, Joy Harris, Paul Bresnick, Carol Mann, Jim Fitzgerald, Helen Rees, Rafe Sagalyn, Larry Norton, Kim Witherspoon, Diane Reverand, Frank Albanese, Larry Ashmead, Jim Fox, Richard Cariello, Beverly Crilley, Lisa Herling, Dan Halpern, Cathy Hemming, Jane Friedman, Mark Gompertz, Dan Farley, Roger Scholl, Steve Ross, Jacques de Spoelberch, Pam Krauss, Lorraine Shanley, Connie Sayer, Mary Ellen Curley, Edwin Tan, Lisa Berkowitz, Steven Sorrentino, Susan Weinberg, Marjorie Braman, Janet Dery, Kirsten Sandburg, Michael Morrison, David Steinberger, Megan Will, and my favorite Italian publisher (and dear friend) Marcella Marini.

    Publishers Acknowledgments

    Were proud of this book; please send us your comments through our online registration form located at www.dummies.com/register

    Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following:

    Acquisitions, Editorial, and Media Development

    Project Editor: Kelly Ewing

    Associate Acquisitions Editor: Karen S. Young

    Acquisitions Coordinator: Lisa Roule

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