Writing and Publishing Your Book: A Guide for Experts in Every Field

Are you ready to write your book? Partner with an experienced publisher, writing coach, and author and find out how to turn your research and scholarship into a book. This book is the next-best-thing to a personal writing coach. Drawing upon her own extensive experience as an author and publisher, Melody Herr guides the reader through every step of the writing and publishing process: constructing a table of contents, preparing a proposal, finding a publisher, negotiating a contract, drafting the manuscript, and marketing the finished product. Throughout, she offers proven strategies for producing a book that highlights its author's authoritative knowledge and writing skills. Unique among writing guides, Writing and Publishing Your Book: A Guide for Experts in Every Field acknowledges the reader's own expertise; speaks to researchers and scholars across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities; and provides information and guidance that will benefit junior authors as well as their more senior colleagues. By following these practical, step-by-step instructions, new authors will more easily liberate their own creativity while avoiding the many pitfalls that mire new writers, thereby maintaining momentum for a successful publication. Breaks into clear, actionable steps the complex process of producing a logically organized, accessible, and useful book that has strong market potential Explains how to determine when a book is the appropriate publication venue for a specific project Describes how to form a mutually beneficial and collaborative partnership with a publisher Provides clear guidance for navigating peer review and interpreting a publishing contract Identifies effective strategies for overcoming the common struggles of every writer-advice that comes from someone who has faced all of these challenges as a writer herself