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On "old-fashioned" editing
Hooking a publisher on your nonfiction
Hooking readers on your work: by the Publishing Contrarian
A wonderful way to publish family diaries, memoirs, letters and reach a wide audience around the world.
Building an author platform--for noncelebrities
This too happens to authors with book contracts
Hiring a freelance editor or copywriter based on the lowest bid? Read this to reach for best value.
Nov.06-July 07, life and death for the staff at the Baghdad library: access the director's diary
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Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
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Forecast for book publishing in 2008 by industry guru Mike Shatzkin


"Christmas 2008 will be the first one in which sales of customized books, enabled by the Internet and print-on-demand, will become substantial. Apple has made it easy to produce one-off picture books and author-services sites like lulu.com have enabled author-generated books for some time. Travel book publishers have played with the concept. What is new is that technologies like SharedBook are moving make-your-own and assemble-your-own [book] into consumer areas...Literary agents will begin to experience the same kind of consolidation that has hit other parts of the book business, [with a] growing need for agents to provide editing, marketing and increasingly detailed rights management..."

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Nonfiction and fiction book awards received by authors we have worked with include


National Book Award

American Bar Association Certificate of Merit

American Psychological Association Distinguished Contribution

Book of the Month Club

The Christophers Award

Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Educator’s Award

Pfizer Award (best science book in 3 years)

Triennial Book Award of the Order of the Coif

New York Times Book Review Recommended Reading List

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