Mastering the Business of Writing: A Leading Literary Agent Reveals the Secrets of Success

by Richard Curtis

This guide shows writers how they can approach various markets, negotiate successful contracts, benefit from agents and handle legalities. It also provides strategies and skills that will benefit... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880559552
• ISBN13: 9781880559550
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Allworth Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.0" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

not a how-to-write book

This is not a how-to-write book. It covers many facets of the business of publishing: how publishers operate and how a book gets published and into bookstores. It shows you the various people involved in the process, and a careful reader will come away with an understanding of the backstage activities of publishing. Unless you have worked in publishing you will probably not get such a perspective any other way. There is much here that writers should know.