Sharlene Martin - Publish Your Nonfiction Book: Strategies for Learning the Industry, Selling Your Book, and Building a Successful Career

Publish Your Nonfiction Book is a useful, accessible, and timely resource that provides excellent guidance and insider advice for prospective authors. Perhaps most importantly, it demystifies the often mazelike publishing process, making it possible for writers with talent and ambition to get their work into print.

Jason Prince, Vice President, Publisher, Sterling Publishing

Publish Your Nonfiction Book is practical, straight-forward, helpful, and tells the truth about publishing! This is the perfect guide to go from dream to reality on your publishing journey. Highly recommended.

Joel Fotinos, Publisher, Tarcher/Penguin

If getting published is your plan, take note of a few things: Mere talent isn't enough. Neither is tenacity. You need tools. In this insiders' guide, Martin and Flacco open up their specialty kit of wrenches, calipers, and pneumatic nail guns. You'll find all you need here to get started with building your literary career.

Joel Miller, Vice President of Editorial & Acquisitions, Thomas Nelson

Martin and Flacco's book is your insider's guide to getting published in the turbulent world of a book business in transition. It's filled with good tips and techniques, but, best of all, it never minimizes the hard work, discipline, and perseverance that it takes to be a good writer.

Alan Rinzler, Executive Editor, Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons

Having been in book publishing for almost forty years, I've always been surprised at the dearth of thoughtful, insightful, and informative books on the integral things a writer needs to know about publishing a nonfiction book. Well, now I've found what I think is the best book of its kind, and one that can make a tremendous difference in the lives of writers and writers-to-be. In Publish Your Non-fiction Book, Martin and Flacco use their years of experience and their insiders' understanding to provide an easy-to-follow path to building a successful career in a volatile and competitive marketplace. It will become an invaluable classic on any writer's bookshelf.

Roger Cooper, Vice President, Publisher, Vanguard Press

When I see a submission from Sharlene Martin and Martin Literary Management, I sit at attention. From pitch to proposal to finished project, Sharlene always hits the mark. She and Anthony, both at the top of their game, consistently deliver commercial, well-positioned, riveting work. So whether you are just getting started or facing your hundredth rejection, this book will help you experience the inside track and professional wisdom that can take you one step closer to publishing success.

Michele Matrisciani, Editorial Director, HCI Books

For every aspiring writer even for authors with a book under their belt Publish Your Nonfiction Book will prove an essential guide through the entire publishing process. Sharlene Martin and Anthony Flacco cover all the bases sizing up today's media landscape; how to write and submit the best queries; and dissecting book proposals that publishers have acquired. I have published many books on books, and this is one of the most useful handbooks I've ever seen. I will recommend it to all my authors.

Philip Turner, Philip Turner Book Productions

Anyone who has ever dreamed of writing a book must read this one first. A rare blend of publishing wisdom and psychotherapeutic sensitivity, it leads you through today's realities without bursting your bubble. It's as essential as a dictionary for everyone, from the wanna-be writer to the best-selling author!

Carole Lieberman, M.D., Media Psychiatrist and Best-Selling Author

Publish Your Nonfiction Book is sure to become essential reading for aspiring writers. Clear, concise, and well written, the book's enjoyable step-by-step approach is as accessible as it is appealing. Martin and Flacco have written a useful reference for newcomers to the world of publishing.

Airie Stuart, Senior Vice President, Publisher, Palgrave MacMillan

Sharlene Martin and Anthony Flacco have used their considerable experience as a successful literary agent and widely published writer, respectively, to demystify the publishing process for nonfiction books in a way that any writer will find to be informative and enlightening. Publish Your Nonfiction Book clearly explains the process unlike any other book that I know about. I'll be recommending it to writers that I work with.

William Shinker, President, Publisher, Gotham and Avery Books