This is the last in my series of posts about how I got a non-fiction book published as a first-time author. If you haven’t seen the previous posts, here is where I stand in the timeline. [...]
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September 7th, 2009 | Tags: amanda, author, book, editor, encyclopedia, non-fiction, patten, published, publisher, schuster, simon, tattoo, with, working, write, writer, Writing | Category: Non-Fiction | Leave a comment
As I awaited word from the editor at Simon & Schuster regarding my mighty tome, I decided to create what is today called an online platform, but at the time was just a web site, when blogs didn’t exist. It wasn’t something I was doing just for fun, although I did enjoy it. Creating a web site was one of things that I had said I would do in my proposal as part of my promotion and marketing plan. [...] September 6th, 2009 | Tags: agent, author, book, code, create, design, images, non-fiction, online, platform, publisher, schuster, simon, site, web, writer, Writing | Category: Non-Fiction, Nuts and Bolts | Leave a comment
From the outset, my query letter met with some amount of success. I’ll take some credit for having written a solid query, but it was also the right topic at the right time. The popularity of tattoos was soaring, many of the books that had been published about tattoos were older, and the tattoo book glut had yet to begin in earnest. [...] You may have noticed in my last post about how I wrote my non-fiction book proposal that the class that I took was ten weeks long but it only took nine to write it. That’s because the last week of the class was devoted to writing a query letter. Why write a book proposal if you’re not going to actually try to get a book published? [...] August 31st, 2009 | Tags: agent, author, book, first, industry, letter, literary, non-fiction, proposal, publisher, publishing, query, time, write, Writing | Category: Non-Fiction | Leave a comment
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