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A unique and significant guide to selling more books through personal appearances and online interviews, brimming with information and resources as well as tips and ideas from nearly two dozen author-speaker professionals.The most powerful tool in your book promotion toolkit is your personality. The fact is that personality sells books.

Mignon Fogarty can't remember whether it was a misused semicolon, a chronic case of comma splicing, or an "affect" when an "effect" was called for, but at some point she had seen one mangled sentence too many. Determined to counter the slipping standards of good writing in daily discourse...

Publishing is an incredibly rewarding yet endlessly complicated profession. This comprehensive and empowering book serves as a resource and reality check for anyone considering launching a press or publishing a single book. Author Joe Biel draws on 23 years of experience in all parts of operating a small publishing company to teach you the skills of the trade, from distribution, operations, inventory, scheduling, and accounting to development, sales, publicity, and marketing.

Setting up your life to write a PhD has a single goal: to ensure that PhD students have the support, preparation and context to succeed. Too often words and phrases like 'burnout' or 'writer's block' are used to mask a complexity of motivational, task or time management issues. But writing is difficult. Writing a PhD is even harder.

You've heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive. Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker.

Step into the world of limitless possibilities where fiction writing becomes an art form, and imagination knows no bounds. Whether you aspire to captivate readers, explore new genres, or simply elevate your writing skills, this audiobook is your key to power up your fiction and unleash your full creative potential.

In Game On David Bockino, a former marketing and advertising manager at ESPN turned professor of communications and sport management, provides the first overview of the evolution of the sports media industry.

É possível transformar um texto comum numa escrita sedutora, gostosa de se ler? Em Escrever Melhor: guia para passar os textos a limpo, Dad Squarisi e Arlete Salvador mostram como estudantes, jornalistas, advogados, executivos e outros profissionais que usam a escrita no dia-a-dia podem melhorar seu texto, tornando-o conciso, objetivo, claro e...sedutor.

Manual básico de escritura con el que aprenderás qué elementos imprescindibles debes incluir en tu novela o relato y cómo debes trabajarlos para que tu obra no tenga agujeros de guión. Incluye seis relatos de autoras españolas especialistas en CiFi, Terror y Fantasía, analizados en profundidad a modo de ejemplos: Nieves Delgado, Nieves Mories, Yolanda Camacho, Carmen Moreno, Cristina Jurado y Nahikari Diosdado.

‘Together, these two have created a flourishing business’ - Vogue Ditch your day job or set up your side project with this ultimate guide to starting and running your own creative business. The Art of Starting guides you from the first step right through to the everyday running of a...