Publishers & Publishing Industry
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How to Self-Publish Your Book: A Complete Guide to Writing, Editing, Marketing & Selling Your Own Book
$19.95 Add to cartA new world has opened to writers who wish to have their words turned into finished books. With technological advances in typesetting, printing, distribution, and sales, self-publishing has become a r
- Author: Yager, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 0757004652
- Language: English
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Publish Your First Magazine (Second Edition): A Practical Guide For Wannabe Publishers
$29.27 Add to cartHave an idea for a magazine but don’t know where to start? Find out everything I learned about the magazine publishing business that enabled me to go from idea to newsstand on my first attempt. This q
- Author: Phillips, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 01, 2015
- ISBN10: 0988953544
- Language: English
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Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction
$29.95 Read moreA revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today
Middlemen rewrites literary history from the perspective of one of its most important but l- Author: McGrath, Laura B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0691256160
- Language: English
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Tough Love for Indie Authors: An Honest Look at What It Takes to Win in Self-Publishing
$20.00 Add to cartAnyone can self-publish a book. But publishing well-creating a book that sells and turning writing into a sustainable career? That takes strategy, persistence, and a deep understanding of the hard tru
- Author: Barnum, Keri-Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 09 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897400065
- Language: English
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A People’s Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business from the Ground Up
$26.99 Add to cart- Author: Biel, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1621062953
- Language: English
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Take It from Me: An Agent’s Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career from Scratch
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the literary agent behind some of today’s most successful authors comes a narrative guide geared specifically to the needs of aspiring and working nonfiction writers, demystifying the world of pu… [more below]
- Author: Habib, Alia Hanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0593700872
- Language: English
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My Life In Pieces-Writers, Rogues, The Road and The Rock
$32.00 Add to cartIreland, where Clancy became a professional writer, plays a significant role in this collection of journalism spanning four decades. Clancy has the eye. He froze a moment that captured The Troubles. T
- Author: Clancy, Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 494
- Publish Date: January 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1899694056
- Language: English
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The Untold Story of Books: A Writer’s History of Publishing
$18.00 Add to cartFrom Gutenberg to Amazon, Michael Castleman’s The Untold Story of Books is the first and only history of publishing told from a veteran author’s point of view. Witty, entertaining, and full of remarka
- Author: Castleman, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1961884089
- Language: English
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Why Books Still Matter: Honoring Joyce Meskis-Essays on the Past, Present, and Future of Books, Bookselling, and Publishing
$19.95 Add to cartIf books didn’t matter, nobody would try to ban them.
In a nation struggling to cope with polarization, disinformation, acrimony, the power of books-to inform, enlighten, and inspire-is more important
- Author: Weber, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1953943306
- Language: English
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Write Through It: An Insider’s Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life
$28.99 Add to cartDiscover what every new and aspiring author needs to know about the publishing industry and how to navigate all the complicated feelings that come with writing a book in this no-nonsense guide from li… [more below]
- Author: McKean, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1668055546
- Language: English
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Women in Independent Publishing: A History of Unsung Innovators, 1953-1989
$29.95 Add to cartWomen in Independent Publishing is a collection of interviews with and resources about women actively engaged in small-press publishing between the 1950s and the 1980s. The interviewees include Hettie
- Author: Anderson, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0826367070
- Language: English
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The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition
$26.00 Add to cartA thoroughly revised edition of the comprehensive guide to building and maintaining a successful career in writing.
Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Friedman, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 18 2025
- ISBN10: 022683865X
- Language: English
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The Least We Can Do: White Supremacy, Free Speech, and Independent Bookstores
$7.95 Read moreA bookseller is the being who is most aware of the futility of a book, and of its importance.–Hector Yç–£over
Like most of our cultural institutions and workers, bookshops and booksellers have worked
- Author: Cook, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1771964650
- Language: English
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45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters
$18.99 Add to cartCreate unforgettable characters your readers will love!
Want to make your characters and their stories more compelling, complex, and original than ever before? 45 Master Characters is here to help you- Author: Lynn Schmidt, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 12 2012
- ISBN10: 1599635348
- Language: English
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The Frugal Book Promoter – 3rd Edition: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or by partnering with your publisher
$24.95 Add to cartThe Frugal Book Promoter assures your book gets the best possible start in life, whether your publisher assigns zero dollars or thousands to your book’s marketing campaign. A former publicist, the aut
- Author: Howard-Johnson, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1615994688
- Language: English
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Be An Author: A Guide to the Basics and the Bewares of Getting Published
$14.00 Add to cartIt’s no secret that the world of publishing can be difficult to understand. It’s an industry where things change almost as much as they stay the same. Confusing, right? Technology has paved the way fo
- Author: Nine, Diane S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: August 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1950544060
- Language: English
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The Successful Novelist: A Lifetime of Lessons about Writing and Publishing
$19.99 Add to cartLearn how to write a novel from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author with more than fifty years of writing and publishing experience.
The Successful Novelist is one of the best books o
- Author: Morrell, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1402210558
- Language: English
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The Book Bible: How to Sell Your Manuscript–No Matter What Genre–Without Going Broke or Insane
$14.99 Read moreA Brilliant, Buoyant Guide to Publishing Your Book
Hundreds of thousands of books come out every year worldwide. So why not yours? In The Book Bible, New York Times bestseller and wildly popular Manha… [more below]- Author: Shapiro, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1510762701
- Language: English
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A People’s Guide to Publishing Workbook
$4.95 Read moreA supplementary workbook to A People’s Guide to Publishing
- Series: People’s Guide to Publishing Workbook
- Author: Biel, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1621066681
- Language: English
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The Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis In The Creative Interpretation Of Human Motives
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Egri, Lajos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 06 2008
- ISBN10: 9562915867
- Language: English
