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Get up to speed on the latest features and enhancements to InDesign CS5 As the industry standard in professional layout and design, InDesign delivers powerful publishing solutions for magazine, newspaper, and other publishing fields. This introductory book is an easy-to-understand reference...

This book contains all the ins and outs of the writing and publishing industry. It was written for writers, poets, publishers, ghostwriters, editors, proofreaders, typesetters, copywriters, freelancers, syndicated columnists and other aspiring authors who are ready to get their names in print.Every...

How to Write a Nonfiction Book: From planning to promotion in 6 simple steps ... Seventh Edition takes the mystery out of the book writing process! Here’s what you need to know: • What it takes to be an author • How to write a proposal • What, when, & how to write • Who can help you • What...

In college and graduate school, Jewell Parker Rhodes never encountered a single reading assignment or exercise that featured a person of color. Now she has made it her mission to rectify the situation, gathering advice and inspiring tips tailored for African Americans seeking to express their life...

It's hard enough for a writer just to get published. But even harder is—Staying Alive. This book is an indispensable guide to economic and psychological survival as a writer, with insights into how the publishing industry works and how to get and stay published. "No one knows the ins...

This is a practical and step by step Microsoft Word manual that guides you in learning and perfecting your Microsoft Word skills in type setting and formatting your document. It also contains a complete process of how to professionally format and prepare your book manuscript for publishing as an eBook. What...

A seasoned audiobook narrator and author offer the first "how-to" eBook to help authors navigate new technology and find greater profits by self-publishing audiobooks.

If you've ever wanted to retain more of your royalties or try publishing e-books but didn't know where to start, this book is for you! Recently e-books have exploded onto the publishing scene, making it easier than ever for writers to break into the market. But many people who read e-books...

It’s all the rage! Now, more than at any other time in publishing history, the public at large are free to publish their own work without the use of agents, publishing houses and brick-and-mortar stores.The whole world has gone digital. Now you and anyone else with the knowledge can publish...

The Practical Guide to Self-publishing deliberately sets out with the intention of covering the subject somewhat differently. It makes the assumption that the desire to self-publish is not necessarily to make money, or even to publish a physical book at all. It may simply be to produce a keepsake...

Teaches the newcomer to self--publishing about free and paid editing, grammar tools, formatting your book text for both eBooks and print books. Fonts, size, style of text, indents and paragraphing. A look inside the process of making a print book. Introduction to Copyrights. Sample of how a simple...

Every week, agents and publishers in this country receive hundreds of manuscripts from would-be authors. Of these, fewer than one per cent will make it into print. David Armstrong was one of the one per-centers, his first crime novel plucked from the slush pile at a major publisher and published to...

"The Forest for the Trees should become a permanent part of any writer's or editor's personal library." -The Seattle Times Quickly established as an essential and enduring companion for aspiring writers when it was first published, Betsy Lerner's sharp, funny, and insightful guide...

Time was when we knew exactly how many words fit on a page and exactly how many pages comprised a novel. Now this is not so clear. eBooks have changed everything about the world of publishing, from number of words to actual category definitions. What is the definition of a novel?...