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List Price: $19.95Price: $6.37 You Save: $13.58 (68%)as of 03/15/2010 01:19 EDT
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 381.4500209730904
EAN: 9780793193080
ISBN: 0793193087
Label: Kaplan Business
Manufacturer: Kaplan Business
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: March 01, 2005
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Release Date: March 01, 2005
Studio: Kaplan Business
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Product Description:
People are fascinated by bestselling authors who have become every bit as much celebrities as rock musicians or film stars. Through some mysterious process, these individuals take blank pages and turn them into goldmany of them over and over again. For authors, earning a spot on the bestseller list is the grand, often elusive prize at the end of many years of work. But what makes a bestseller happen?
Brian Hill and Dee Power interviewed over 50 successful authors, publishers, editors, agents, book reviewers, and other experts to find the answer. The Making of a Bestseller: Success Stories from Authors and the Editors, Agents, and Booksellers Behind Them presents a comprehensive look at the publishing process from start to finish. Authors and would-be authors, individuals in the publishing industry, and passionate readers will learn:
How bestselling authors approach the craft of writing and marketing their books
The many different paths authors take to the top of the list
The impact a first bestseller makes on an authors life
The workings of the selection process, from the query letter to the decision to publish
How publishers know a book has bestseller potential
The agents role in helping create a bestseller
Factors and events that influence whether a book makes the bestseller list, including TV "reading book clubs," the review process, publicity, marketing programs, and timing
How Hollywood impacts the reading public
To provide a broad spectrum of experience, interviews with authors of nonfiction and fictionfrom first-time novelists to serial bestsellersare included. In addition, avid readers will find fascinating stories behind some of their favorite authors works.
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The Making of a Bestseller: Success Stories from Authors and the Editors, Agents, and Booksellers Behind Them by Brian Hill and Dee Power is an unusual book. The "authors" of the book basically sent out email or fax interview questions to folks in the book business to get their opinion on a variety of topics, all to answer the basic question how a book becomes a bestseller. While on the surface this sounds like a good idea, reading this book was something of a chore.
The book has plenty ... Read More
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As the unpublished auhor of two novels I have read dozens of books about writing and publishing. Most either regurgitate tiresome old addages ( write everyday; use rejection as a motivator) or worse are filled with false hope and flowery descriptions of how to raise your craft to the level of great literature (usually written by other frustrated authors who have either not been able to publish fiction or who have published but not sold well).
This book is written witht he insight of two ... Read More
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"The Making of a Bestseller" is like getting a front row seat in a panel interview with various bestselling writers, their editors and agents, and a few publishers. Newbies get great insight about how the publishing industry operates. The best parts of this book are, to me, the reflections shared by authors about their experience when they "made it big." In a lot of ways, "The Making of a Bestseller" responds to those who are curious about what it's like to be in the heart of the action.
Given ... Read More
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Dee Power and Brian Hill have put together a fascinating look at bestselling authors and what it takes. They interview a number of bestselling authors, booksellers and editors about what made the difference for a book to become a bestseller. Here's a few quotes from the book:
"Now we know: The "secret bestseller sauce" is made up of this key ingredient--a great book." p. 88 Then on the next page: "in our survey, agents on average said they accept 2 out of 1,000 submissions. A senior editor with ... Read More
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Brian and Dee's book is like having a one-on-one conversation with today's top fiction and non-fiction writers.
What questions would you want to ask them?
...How do you stay focused?
...What quality is present in all "good writing"?
...What is the life of an author truly like?
...How did you get into writing?
...Where do you get your ideas?
Chances are good that whatever your question Brian and Dee asked it.
The Making of a Bestseller is a book ... Read More
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