"The Business of being a writer offers the business education writers need but so rarely receive. It is meant for early-career writers looking to develop a realistic set of expectations about making money from their work or for working writers who want a better understanding of the industry. Writers will gain a comprehensive picture of how the publishing world works--from queries and agents to blogging and advertising--and will learn how they can...

A tale of revenge involving two friends in the publishing world. It is bad enough that writer Nicolas Fabry steals Edward Destry's woman, it is worse that he discards her and she commits suicide, but when he writes a novel about it and the novel wins a prize, Destry decides to fix him. Destry's plan: forge a novel under Fabry's name and have him sued for plagiarism. Written in English by a Swiss, the novel won a prize for detective fiction in France....

A novel on the publishing industry whose protagonists are a high-powered New York publisher and five novelists whose books he is publishing. The latter range from a fading romance writer, to a girl who hung herself because no one would accept her manuscript.

"A light-hearted book about books and the people who write them for all lovers of literature. Do you know: Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China? Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? What superstitions Truman Capote kept whenever he wrote? Who the other Winston Churchill was? A treasure trove of compelling facts, riveting anecdotes, and extraordinary...

Imaginative middle schooler Jimmy follows his dream to start a unique book company while he is still a child.