The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published by Arielle Eckstut

I skipped around, reading the sections most applicable for me right now, but I found myself reading other chapters that followed even if they didn’t apply to me just because it was interesting. But I actually enjoyed reading this book.

On what to look for in critique partners: someone who is “nice enough to tell you when you’re got a bit of food on your lip without making you feel like a miserable loser.”īefore I read craft books and how-to books, I tend to drink two cups of tea in preparation for a study session, similar to being back in school and learning dry material.

You’ve chosen your venues, set up your profiles, figured out who you’d like to follow and befriend.

It helps to have the right guide dog to help you across the street.

Their advice is interspersed with interviews with top level agents, editors, and writers, giving you a well-rounded picture. So you’ll be learning about publishing, AND learning by example how to inject voice into your own writing. Their senses of humor come across through the pages, making me smile and even laugh while talking about subjects as mundane as writing a synopsis. It’s the only one of its kind that I’ve come across-one which covers everything you’ll need to know from brainstorming your book to finding an agent to publishing it either traditionally or through self-publishing.įirst off, this book was enjoyable to read, something I have never said about a how-to book. If I could only recommend one writing book to an aspiring writer, it would be this one. I knew from working with them that they know this industry inside out, give great advice, and have a wonderful sense of humor…all of which shone through in this book. I bought this book after being lucky enough to work with The Book Doctors one-on-one.

Includes interviews with hundreds of publishing insiders and authors, including Seth Godin, Neil Gaiman, Amy Bloom, Margaret Atwood, Leonard Lopate, plus agents, editors, and booksellers sidebars featuring real-life publishing success stories sample proposals, query letters, and an entirely updated resources and publishers directory. Written by experts with twenty-five books between them as well as many years’ experience as a literary agent (Eckstut) and a book doctor (Sterry), this nuts-and-bolts guide demystifies every step of the publishing process: how to come up with a blockbuster title, create a selling proposal, find the right agent, understand a book contract, and develop marketing and publicity savvy. Written by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, aka The Book Doctors

The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published by Arielle Eckstut