How to Write and Sell Your First Nonfiction Book

by Frances Spatz Leighton and Oscar Collier

Book Overview

Each year, over 40,000 new nonfiction books on every conceivable topic, from biography and politics to gardening, how-to, and sports, are published in the United States. This guide, written by a prominent literary agent, offers an essential resource for the first-time writer hoping to launch a career.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312038461
• ISBN13: 9780312038465
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

This book tells you how the process works.

How to Write and Sell Your First Nonfiction Book by Oscar Collier, Frances Spatz Leighton is an excellent how-to book on writing. Note: I have written and published over two dozen magazine and trade journal articles in over a dozen different publications. This gives me insight on how the free-lance business works. Most want to be authors know little to nothing on how to write and sell their first book. This book tells you how the process works. It covers the various types of books. It gives step by step guidance. It shows you how to pitch an idea instead writing a book on speculation. If you are even thinking of being an author, it is worth reading. My advice is to get and read this book.

Every " want to be author" should read this book

Most first time authors know ZERO on how to write and sell their first book. This book tells you how. If you are even thinking of being an author- get this book!Rick Frishman Pres. Planned TV Arts (NYC) Co-author GUERRILLA PUBLICITY & GUERRILLA MARKETING FOR WRITERS

A great book

I loved this book it was so great I can't even explain how great it was!

?How to write and sell your First Nonfiction?

I have had an idea for a book for several months but I couldn't get it off my mind. I didn't know how to go about preparing the manuscript or submitting it to a publisher.Oscar Collier and Frances Spatz Leighton's `How to write and sell your First Nonfiction' book made a lot of difference for me, and took the pains to carry the reader step by step through all the phases. I would never have stepped out into the print world without the common sense guidance I was able to take advantage of from this book. I highly recommend this delightful book - its so positive and encouraging as well as giving you all the tools you need to actually publish your first book! Its fun reading and the absolute best 'how to' book I have ever read.