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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Description
"Jessica Fletcher investigates a mysterious manuscript with deadly consequences in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series Jessica Fletcher has had plenty to worry about over her storied career, both as a bestselling novelist and amateur sleuth. But she never had any reason to worry about her longtime publisher, Lane Barfield, who also happens to be a trusted friend. When mounting evidence of financial malfeasance leads to an FBI investigation...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The author traces the significant yet underappreciated historical role that mass-market paperbacks of Jane Austen's books have played in making her the celebrated author she is today. This is a work of bibliography and of literary history. The author has amassed a large collection of rare and forgotten Austen volumes with rich, colorful, and sometimes gaudy covers that are featured, selectively, as figures in the book"--
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Disc 1. [Lectures] 1. Today's book publishing landscape ; 2. Defining your fiction genre ; 3. Categorizing your nonfiction book ; 4. Researching writers' markets ; 5. What to expect from a literary agent ; 6. Writing your query letter. -- Disc. 2. [Lectures] 7. Writing your novel or memoir synopsis ; 8. The importance of author platform ; 9. Researching and planning your book proposal ; 10. Writing an effective book proposal ; 11. Submissions and...