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"After Jean reworked my first draft, paperback rights sold for $137,000." ––Timmen Cermak, M.D., author of A Time to Heal: The Road to Recovery for Adult Children of Alcoholics
Mastering the craft and understanding the mechanics of writing self–help and how–to books is the key to getting publishers to take notice of your work. Now, in the first guide to writing self–help and how–to books, Jean Stine offers an insider′s view of this growing genre. Her easy–to–follow program takes you step–by–step through the complete writing process. You′ll learn the importance of:
∗ Structure and Style
∗ Clear, easy–to–understand exercises
∗ Creating catchy and compelling titles, subtitles, and chapter headings
∗ Using lists, charts, and graphs to maximum effect
∗ Checklists and other interactive elements
∗ Writing a proposal that sells
∗ Negotiating permissions for quotations, photos, and illustrations
∗ Preparing your manuscript for presentation to a publisher
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"After Jean reworked my first draft, paperback rights sold for $137,000." —Timmen Cermak, M.D., author of A Time to Heal: The Road to Recovery for Adult Children of Alcoholics
Mastering the craft and understanding the mechanics of writing self–help and how–to books is the key to getting publishers to take notice of your work. Now, in the first guide to writing self–help and how–to books, Jean Stine offers an insider′s view of this growing genre. Her easy–to–follow program takes you step–by–step through the complete writing process. You′ll learn the importance of:
- Structure and Style
- Clear, easy–to–understand exercises
- Creating catchy and compelling titles, subtitles, and chapter headings
- Using lists, charts, and graphs to maximum effect
- Checklists and other interactive elements
- Writing a proposal that sells
- Negotiating permissions for quotations, photos, and illustrations
- Preparing your manuscript for presentation to a publisher
Self-help/how-to books are easy to write. Read the first page
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I went back to it again when I wrote my second book earlier this year and was thumbing through it again today (on an excercise bike in the gym actually) as I prepare to put together my third book for release in January.
Although she spends a lot of time talking about how to sell your book to publishers it's an excellent guide for anyone who wants to get into information marketing or write any non-fiction. The author's clearly someone who's been there and done it.
this is a manual more than a book. i have read most of it several times over, and some of the ideas only hit me after four or five 'revisions' of a topic.
i like the style and there are enough anecdotes and illustrations to bring the topic to life. for instance: there are numerous examples of sample titles, both of the good and bad type. Second, JM Stine uses the fact that self-help can be broken down in several categories to bring several examples every time. So, from the bird house contruction to the cure for ailment, the message about the structure comes through.
More than the titles et the styles, it is the 'other' advice that brings the benefits. The exercises that realkly challenges my perception. JM Stine in many places asks questions which i have found tough to provide an answer to. However tough tough questions are homing in on the flaws of my preparation. The questions do what a top consultant would do and spot the gaps. Hard emotionally at times, but great value added.
I feel a lot more confident now about my work, even though there are challenges ahead. The advice by another reviewer "If you follow only one third of the advice in this book, you will have a success" seems the best description.
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