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Thinking like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published » (1st Edition)

Authors: Alfred Fortunato, Susan Rabiner
ISBN-13: 9780393324617, ISBN-10: 0393324613
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: 1st Edition

Susan Rabiner is the former editorial director of Basic Books. She was a senior editor at Oxford University Press and Pantheon Books.

Alfred Fortunato is a freelance editor and writer.

Distilled wisdom from two publishing pros for every serious nonfiction author in search of big commercial success.

In 45 years in publishing I have never read better advice than this book offers. Bravo!

	A Note to the Reader	11
	Prologue: First, a little story ...	15
	Introduction	27
Ch. 1	Thinking Like an Editor: Audience, Audience, Audience	39
Pt. 1	The Submission Package
Ch. 2	How to Write a Proposal	61
Ch. 3	Wrapping Up the Submission Package: The Table of Contents, the Sample Chapter, and Supporting Materials	97
Ch. 4	Placing Your Manuscript with a Publisher: To Agent or Not to Agent, and Other Questions about the Publishing Acquisition Process	120
Pt. 2	The Writing Process
Ch. 5	A Question of Fairness and Other Limits of Argument in Serious Nonfiction	141
Ch. 6	Using Narrative Tension	177
Ch. 7	From Introduction to Epilogue: Writing Your Book Chapter by Chapter - and What to Do When You Get into Trouble	196
Pt. 3	From Edition to Marketing to Publication
Ch. 8	How to Be Published Well	223
App. A	Sample Proposal and Writing Sample	239
	Acknowledgments	269
	Index	271