Thinking like your editor :
Rabiner, Susan.
Thinking like your editor : how to write great serious nonfiction-- and get it published / Susan Rabiner and Alfred Fortunato. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2002. - 284 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Thinking Like an Editor: Audience, -- Audience, Audience -- Part One: The Submission Package -- Chapter 2: How to Write a Proposal -- Chapter 3: Wrapping Up the Submission Package: -- The Table of Contents, the Sample -- Chapter, and Supporting Materials -- Chapter 4: PlacingYour Manuscript with a Publisher: -- To Agent or Not to Agent, and Other -- Questions about the Publishing Acquisition -- Process -- Chapter 5: A Question of Fairness and Other Limits -- of Argument in Serious Nonfiction 141 -- Chapter 6: Using Narrative Tension 177 -- Chapter 7: From Introduction to Epilogue: Writing -- Your Book Chapter by Chapter-and -- What to Do WhenYou Get into Trouble 196 -- Part Three: From Editing to Marketing to Publi cation -- Chapter 8: How to Be Published Well 223 -- Appendix: A Sample Proposal and Writing Sample 239 -- Acknowledgments 269 -- Index 271.
0393038920 9780393038927
2001044551
Authorship--Marketing.
Book proposals.
PN161 / .R28 2002
Thinking like your editor : how to write great serious nonfiction-- and get it published / Susan Rabiner and Alfred Fortunato. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2002. - 284 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Thinking Like an Editor: Audience, -- Audience, Audience -- Part One: The Submission Package -- Chapter 2: How to Write a Proposal -- Chapter 3: Wrapping Up the Submission Package: -- The Table of Contents, the Sample -- Chapter, and Supporting Materials -- Chapter 4: PlacingYour Manuscript with a Publisher: -- To Agent or Not to Agent, and Other -- Questions about the Publishing Acquisition -- Process -- Chapter 5: A Question of Fairness and Other Limits -- of Argument in Serious Nonfiction 141 -- Chapter 6: Using Narrative Tension 177 -- Chapter 7: From Introduction to Epilogue: Writing -- Your Book Chapter by Chapter-and -- What to Do WhenYou Get into Trouble 196 -- Part Three: From Editing to Marketing to Publi cation -- Chapter 8: How to Be Published Well 223 -- Appendix: A Sample Proposal and Writing Sample 239 -- Acknowledgments 269 -- Index 271.
0393038920 9780393038927
2001044551
Authorship--Marketing.
Book proposals.
PN161 / .R28 2002