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Title: Getting Your Book Published for Dummies by Sarah Parsons Zackheim, Adrian Zackheim ISBN: 0-7645-5257-0 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 17 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Getting your book published for those who already have
Comment: This book was a disappointment. The reviews below pretty much reflect my problems with the book. Another problem I had concerned promotion. The authors assume that every aspiring author already has extensive media contacts. The sample proposal they give is from 2 college professors who have already published 2 books and have been featured on national TV and raidio. Now come on, most people who buy this book have not been on national TV and have no idea where to begin a promotional campaign. That's why they buy this book in the first place! Instead of telling us how to establish media contacts to use in the proposal, the authors simply tell us to use all our media contacts in the proposal. If I already had media contacts I wouldn't have needed the book.
In sum, if you havn't already published a few books and havn't been on national TV, this book will leave you with many lingering questions.
Rating: 3
Summary: This book made me look like an idiot...
Comment: Earlier this year I had a book fall in my lap. A publishing company had an idea for a book, and I just happened to be the expert in the book's topic. I had a journalism background, so the publisher offered me the job. We set up a meeting to talk about the specifics of my duties and my contract a few days later.
I ran out and sifted throught the limited section of books on publishing at my local bookstore. I chose this book and began to read through the chapters. Although the organization of the book is pretty good and there is some good information (probably more suited for the publishing market a few years ago), some really bad advice nearly cost me the job.
The standard royalty rates weren't really put into context (for example, my specific situation was hard to apply to the text). I felt like all of the information was too general, and because of that, I looked like an idiot in front of my editor, marketing coordinator and the VP of acquisitions.
I got a lot out of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published, The Self-Publishing Manual and a few other books. For the money, I got very little out of this title.
Rating: 2
Summary: They Could Have Done Better ...
Comment: Alas! The estimable Stephanie Dray has written most the review of this book that I wanted to write. As does Ms. Dray, I feel that some of the content is trite.
Otherwise: One really good thing this book has going for it was far too brief. That is the initial "Getting Started" section. The authors provided much good info therein, but there is a lot more to be said about evaluating and developing ideas, as well as on the subject of how things work (and don't work) in the world of freelancing. (New writers--and that is the category into which most of the buyers of this book fall--need more direction in those areas.)
The title makes me wonder what the marketing and editorial people weren't thinking when they agreed on it. The publisher deals exclusively with nonfiction books, and I think this led to editorial and marketing thinking in terms of nonfiction books only--not taking into account the fact that novels are books, too! Thus it may be that the title misled novelists into thinking the book was for them.
On the paw, "Getting Your Nonfiction Book Published for Dummies" would have been a bit unweildy. But the cover copy or a subtitle would have sufficed to alert the reader. (Details, details ...)
I applaud the line's parent, IDG, for moving into the writing how-to field. But they could have done better.
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published (Complete Idiot's Guide To...) by Sheree Bykofsky, Jennifer Basye Sander ISBN: 1592571212 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Get Your First Book Published: And Make It a Success by Jason Shinder, Jeff Herman, Amy Holman ISBN: 156414450X Publisher: Career Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 That Sold and Why, 2nd Edition by Jeff Herman, Deborah Levine Herman ISBN: 0471353124 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 04 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Book by Susan Page ISBN: 0553061771 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 12 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: How to Get Your Book Published: Inside Secrets of a Successful Author by Robert W. Bly ISBN: 0934968144 Publisher: Roblin Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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