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Author
Publisher
New World Library
Language
English
Description
"Jeff Herman's Guide unmasks nonsense, clears confusion, and unlocks secret doorways to success for new and veteran writers! This highly respected resource is used by publishing insiders everywhere and has been read by millions all over the world. Countless writers have turned to this book to figure out how to decipher the hidden codes to getting published."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...
Author
Publisher
Desmond Callaghan
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
This is the one book that will help you write not only your first book, but every book you've ever dreamt of writing. Unlike the countless boring and serious materials you may find online that promise overnight success and deliver frustration in the end, this book has been written in a fun and engaging way to make the leaning process as easy and efficient as possible. In this book, the steps on how to write your first book are carefully broken down,...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
As Barbara and Brett Folsby battle for control of their parents' publishing empire, they never suspect "that a trusted family friend with a hidden agenda is quietly manipulating them all" and is threatening to expose the sexual secrets of Barbara, Brett, and their father Emmet.--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Kadavy, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Have you thought about writing a book? Do you just not know where to begin? Do you get writer's block just thinking about writing a book? Best-selling non-fiction author David Kadavy shares his simple process for writing a book. Build confidence, ditch your inner critic, and finally write your book with simple habits you can start today.
9) The list
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
After three of her novels flop for lack of publicity, lawyer Abby Chandlis hires male model Jack Jermaine to stand in as the author for her fourth. As expected, Jermaine's hunky looks cause sales to skyrocket. But Jermaine is more than just a model, he is a soldier of fortune and as people die round her, Abby wonders if she hasn't signed a pact with the devil.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The first biography in over thirty years of Condé Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst. Condé Nast's life and career was as high profile and glamourous as his magazines. Moving to New York in the early twentieth century with just the shirt on his back, he soon became the highest paid executive in the United States, acquiring Vogue in 1909 and Vanity Fair in 1913. Alongside...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two couples, four decades apart. One believes that if lovers die, they find each other again in another life. Or perhaps they wind up as stars side by side in the sky, together forever. Who knows how it really ends? Danielle Steel breaks new ground in her career as a perennial New York Times bestseller with the poignant story of two parallel destinies, and the kind of love we all hope will be everlasting.
A young New York lawyer and his wife link...
13) The school story
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor. Natalie uses a pseudonym to write her first book, and her friend, Zoe, pretends to be an agent. With a little help from an English teacher, the book exceeds everyone's expectations and becomes a bestseller!
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publ
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch-22 and The American Way of Death, among other bestsellers. At Knopf, Gottlieb edited a long list of authors, including Toni Morrison, John Cheever,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vegueta Ediciones
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"El presente volumen de la serie Genios de la Ciencia cuenta la historia de Johannes Gutenberg, el genio que inventó la imprenta y dio pie a la primera gran revolución en la transmisión del saber. El relato no solo explica el contexto en el que vivió el inventor o el funcionamiento de la imprenta de tipos móviles, sino que traza un recorrido por los distintos soportes en los que se plasmó la lengua escrita y explica la importancia de los libros...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
In Connecticut, a publisher's wife is taken hostage by a suspected killer making a getaway. The man, Dick Dart, was arrested as a suspect in the knifing death of four divorcees in their bedroom. He is intuitive and clever and Nora Chancel, who previously led the life of a bored housewife, can only stay alive by feeding his ego and outwitting him without seeming to do so. Over the next 10 days she grows in stature and courage. By the author of Ghost...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As the 19th century draws to an end, two bookaneers are caught up in a colonial war on Samoa as they compete to steal Robert Louis Stevenson's last manuscript and make a fortune before a new international treaty ends the bookaneers' trade forever.
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