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Write with Power and Confidence

In Write with Power and Confidence, the president of a respected publishing firm shares four decades of book-industry knowledge and experience in this very valuable work. He provides both authors and publishers with many valuable tools and thought-provoking tips of the trade in this concise writing and publishing guide. Three hundred forty-nine valuable tips for writing fiction are provided, followed by a similar listing of 331 tips for writing non-fiction. Suggestions for writing for children and teens, including educator-approved vocabulary lists for grades one through six, are also furnished. The book provides a host of useful facts which give authors essential information on what sells, how it is advertised, when it is produced and released, how manuscripts are selected for publication, what makes a book a best-seller, how royalties are calculated, how to submit their manuscripts and much, much more. Every publisher, author and potential author can benefit significantly from this unique, useable book. It’s a goldmine of valuable information!

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by Duane S. Crowther

This book provides valuable writing tips that will help authors grow!

In Write with Power and Confidence, the president of a respected publishing firm shares four decades of book-industry knowledge and experience in this very valuable work. A prolific author of more than 55 books and 35 talk CDs, and the managing editor and publisher of more than 700 books, Duane S. Crowther knows his subject well. He provides both authors and publishers with many valuable tools and thought-provoking tips of the trade in this concise writing and publishing guide.

The book includes:

349 valuable tips for writing fiction.
331 useful techniques for writing non-fiction
Guidelines for writing for children and teens
Writing to meet publishers’ needs
A subject-matter analysis of past years’ best-selling trade books
A subject-matter analysis of past years’ best-selling religious books
Basic publishing-industry practices: sales, printing, marketing
Royalties: how authors are compensated
Negotiating publishers’ contracts for your books
Observations on book pricing

Three hundred forty-nine valuable tips for writing fiction are provided, followed by a similar listing of 331 tips for writing non-fiction. Suggestions for writing for children and teens, including educator-approved vocabulary lists for grades one through six, are also furnished.

Much of the book is based on professional monographs he has written for book-industry professionals which have been adapted for authors. During several national booksellers conventions the author surveyed many of the nation’s major publishers, drawing together information on essential publishing practices. These surveys were later published to the industry in Publishers Weekly. Further research is drawn from his MBA thesis, which was written on the publishing industry, and from other recent industry studies.

The book provides a host of useable facts which give authors essential information on what sells, how it is advertised, when it is produced and released, how manuscripts are selected for publication, what makes a book a best-seller, how royalties are calculated, how to submit their manuscripts and much, much more.

Every publisher, author and potential author can benefit significantly from this unique, useable book. It’s a goldmine of valuable information!

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