"This book is the clearest map to book publishing you?ll find."
?Scott Adams, creator, Dilbert

Find out how to draft attention-getting proposals and queries

"A must read for any aspiring professional writer."
?Peter Maas, author, Underboss and The Terrible Hours

Consider this friendly guide your tour of the publishing industry ? from understanding the business and its players to the art of negotiating advances, options, and rights. Take advantage of industry insider Sarah Parsons Zackheim?s decades of experience and find out how to refine your book idea, submit winning queries, get an agent, and more!

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"Dig your well before you?re thirsty, and before you write your first book, don?t just read Getting Your Book Published For Dummies . . . study it!."
? Harvey Mackay, author of Swim with the Sharks: Without Being Eaten Alive

"An excellent common-sense guide filled with inspiring anecdotes."
? Vicky Bijur, President, AAR, Association of Authors? Representatives, Inc.

Discover how to:

• Choose a book idea
• Get inspired to write
• Find a market for your work
• Choose a publisher
• Act as your own agent
• Negotiate your contract
• Self-publish your book on the Web