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Playing the short game: how to market and sell short fiction / by Smith, Douglas,author.(CARDINAL)161331;
Introduction -- About this Book (And How to Use It) -- Section I: Setting a Foundation: The Fundamentals -- 1. Why Are You Writing? -- 2. Why Short Fiction?: Its Benefits to a Writing Career -- 3. Why You Never "Sell" a Story: Rights and Licensing.Section II: Selling Short: How to Market Your Stories -- 4. How Do I Know It's Ready?: Submission Fear & Arrogance -- 8. Dear Editor: How to Submit Short Fiction -- 9. The No-Nos: What Not to Do When Submitting Fiction -- 10. The Numbers Game: What to Do after You've Submitted a Story -- 11. Behind the Curtain: How an Editor Chooses (or Rejects) a Story -- 12. Oh God, They Hate Me: Dealing with Rejections -- 13. Drawing the Line: When to Stop Submitting a Story.Section III: You've Sold a Story: Contracts, Editing, and Reality -- 14. Sign Here: What to Look (Out) for in Short Fiction Contracts -- 15. I Love Your Story. Now Change It: Working with an Editor -- 16. But You Bought My Last Story: What a First Sale Really Means -- 17. They Said WHAT?!?: Dealing with Reviews -- 18. Let the Band Ring Out and the Banners Fly: Promotion (or Not).Section IV: The Magic Bakery: How to Leverage Your Stories -- 19. Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: A Writer's Magic Bakery -- 20. This Story First Appeared In...: Selling Reprints -- 21. Bonjour / Hola / Ciao: Selling Foreign Language Rights -- 22. Curling Up with a Good Podcast: Selling Audio Rights -- 23. More Options for Your Backlist: Collections -- 24. A Brave New World: The Indie Option for Short Fiction.Section V: Is That All There Is?: Thoughts for Established Writers -- 25. Cool Stuff That Might Happen: Awards, Best of Anthologies, Movies -- 26. Bands and Banners Revisited: Promotion for Established Authors -- 27. Where Do We Go from Here?: Career Progression in Short Fiction -- 28. So Long and Thanks for All the Fish: Parting Thoughts -- About the Author -- Other Works by Douglas Smith -- Chimerascope -- Impossibilia -- The Wolf at the End of the World -- Index.Take your first step to becoming a professional writer! In an engaging and conversational style, award-winning author Douglas Smith teaches you how to market and sell short stories - and much, much more. Even experienced writers will find value here as Smith takes you from your first sale to using your stories to build a writing career.
Subjects: Writing; Authorship.;
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Writing to be understood : what works and why / by Janzer, Anne H.,author.(CARDINAL)789719;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index.Introduction -- Understanding your readers. Who are your readers? ; The absent reader ; How much do they need to know? ; What do they already know? ; The tough audience -- How to explain abstract ideas. Curiosity is your accomplice ; Abstractions and details ; Explanatory analogies ; Stories ; Effective repetition -- How not to be boring. Tone and style ; Images and imagery ; Credibility, humanity, and humility ; Humor ; Finding your personal style."Have you ever wondered what makes your favorite nonfiction books so compelling, understandable, or enjoyable to read? Those works connect with you, as a reader. Good news: when you recognize what what's happening, you can apply those same methods to your own writing. Writing To Be Understood is the thinking writer's guide to effective nonfiction writing techniques, such as: using analogies effectively to illustrate unseen concepts, appealing to the reader's innate curiosity, alternating between abstraction and detail in explanations, and balancing humility with credibility. For each topic, the book combines insights from cognitive science with advice from writers and expert practitioners in fields of psychology, technology, economics, medicine, policy, and more. Whether you're an expert trying to communicate with a mainstream audience or a nonfiction writer hoping to reach more people, Writing to be Understood will help you expand the impact of your words."--
Subjects: Authorship.; Writing.;
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Writing the creative article / by Holmes, Marjorie,1910-2002.(CARDINAL)723652;
Subjects: Authorship.; Feature writing.;
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Words fail me : what everyone who writes should know about writing / by O'Conner, Patricia T.(CARDINAL)634982;
Includes bibliographical references (page 223) and index.930L
Subjects: Literature.; Authorship.; Report writing.;
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How to write and sell your first nonfiction book / by Collier, Oscar,1924-(CARDINAL)753263; Leighton, Frances Spatz.(CARDINAL)144202;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Authorship.; Report writing.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The complete idiot's guide to writing business books / by Holtje, Herbert.(CARDINAL)140448;
Subjects: Authorship.; Business writing.;
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Bang the keys : four steps to a lifelong writing practice / by Dearman, Jill.(CARDINAL)653107;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Writing; Authorship.;
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Writer to writer [sound recording] : from think to ink / by Levine, Gail Carson,author.(CARDINAL)343155; Henderson, Heather,narrator.;
Read by Heather Henderson.Gail Carson Levine offers a behind-the-scenes take on writing and teaches listeners how to become a world-class author. Drawing from her popular blog, Gail answers readers' fiction and poetry-writing questions and dives into how to make a story come alive. With her trademark humor and vast writing knowledge, Gail Carson Levine reveals the tricks of her trade, writer to writer.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Authorship.; Creative writing.;
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Crafting dynamic dialogue : the complete guide to speaking, conversing, arguing, and thinking in fiction / by Writer's Digest Books (Firm),authoreditor.;
A comprehensive guide to writing compelling dialogue that rings true. Each section is packed with advice and instruction from best-selling authors and instructors like Nancy Kress, Elizabeth Sims, Steven James, Deborah Halverson, James Scott Bell, Donald Maass, Cheryl St. John, and many others. Whether you're writing flash fiction, a short story, or a novel-length manuscript, this book will help you develop, write and refine dialogue to keep your readers hooked.
Subjects: Fiction; Writing.; Dialogue.;
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A writer"s guide to getting published in magazines / by DeSpain, J J.(CARDINAL)663181;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Authorship.; Journalism; Feature writing.;
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