Offering updated material to reflect current style, this 15th edition includes guidance on electronic publications, journals and mathematical copy. A comprehensive gathering of material, the Chicago Manual of Style is an essential reference for publishing professionals.

Discusses proposals and arguments and debate about books, from the age of Socrates to our own. This book explains the mad business of how a book is born every 30 seconds.

The literary agent Jojo has just made a very bad career move: she's jumped into bed with her married boss Mark... The bestseller Jojo's sweet-natured client Lily's first novel is a roaring success. She and lover Anton celebrate by spending the advance for her second book. The unknown Gemma used to be Lily's best friend - until Lily 'stole' Anton.

Why do some editors choose some books and decline others? How does a writer decide where to submit a project? How does the review process work? William Germano, a veteran editor, answers these questions and more, offering encouragement, tips and warnings along the way.

Provides writers with step-by-step guidance on every aspect of publishing and marketing a book. This guide also gives up-to-date advice on e-publishing and electronic rights. Appendices list marketing contacts, and other chapters cover production tips, cover design and advertising.

Part-memoir, part-history, here is an account of the collapsing standards of contemporary publishing that is irascible and often passionate. The Business of Books warns of the danger to adventurous, intelligent publishing in the bullring of today's marketplace.

In this survival guide for writers, Betsy Lerner shares her editorial wisdom and provides an insider's understanding of the publishing process. She looks at different writer personality types and addresses the concerns of writers just getting started as well as those stalled mid-career.

Diana Athill's memoir of a life spent working with some of the charismatic characters who have dominated 20th-century literature. With inimitable wit and rare candour, she recounts tales from a long life in publishing, including reflections on editing writers such as Jean Rhys and Gitta Sereny.

A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporat. An excellent textbook on the essentials of copyediting, and an indespensible reference book for the workplace.

Third edition.

A sharp, witty and hugely entertaining debut novel, The Devil Wears Prada is The Nanny Diaries set in the world of high fashion.

This guide looks at how to write a successful crime novel - from critical points in development, including story setting, creating characters, building suspense, use of sex and violence, the importance of research and the basic rules of story construction - to how to get published.

In addition to providing guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APA style, this manual offers an authoritative reference and citation system. It also covers the treatment of numbers, statistical and mathematical data, tables and figures for use in writing, reports or presentations.

When tragedy strikes his town, Lukas Yoder, a successful author who had thought he had written his last novel, becomes determined to turn the tragedy into another book. Reprint. NYT.

Now re-issued with an appreciation by Henry Kissinger, this is the late Katharine Graham's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography.

Talks about the era in which the masses were given access to what had previously been the preserve of a wealthy few - books. This title recounts how Allen Lane came to launch his Penguins for the price of a packet of cigarettes; how they became enormously influential in alerting the public to the threat of Nazi Germany; and more.

Addresses issues such as globalization of publishing and the impact of the internet. This edition covers: how the industry has evolved; publishing functions - editorial, design and production, marketing, sales and distribution, and rights; the role of the author; copyright and contracts; and the sales channels for books in the UK.

Who will have the nervous breakdown? Will it be Clodagh who awaits her beautiful husband's homecoming, or Lisa, hard and brittle and recently demoted? Or perhaps it will be Ashling who is so normal that she is actually weird.

Includes discussion of the useful early stages of a research task: planning and drafting a paper. This title explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; and, how to anticipate the reservations of readers and to respond to them appropriately.