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Title: Get Your First Book Published: And Make It a Success by Jason Shinder, Jeff Herman, Amy Holman ISBN: 1-56414-450-X Publisher: Career Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Misleading Title, Disjointed Facts, and Questionable Advice
Comment: "Get Your First Book Published" is perhaps the most frustratingly unhelpful book on writing that I have ever encountered. So many deficiencies exist that picking one to start with would be maddening were it not for the title itself.
A better title for this book would have been "Middling Information on Entering Your Poem in Writing Contests from Authors You've Never Heard Of".
The book is loaded with info. The worth of that info is in question, though. Do a couple sections on famous writers of yesteryear and their first works truly get my first book published? Most of the example authors (Thoreau, Wharton, Hemingway) published so long ago that whatever rules the publishing industry had in their day are long since defunct. The stories of those books are not even inspiring - merely didactic.
Input from modern writers are included, too. But who are they? I've never heard of the authors cited. Most are poets. With the poetry market as moribund as a snail in a coma, this over-reliance on publishing poems reduces the usefulness of the book for people who truly want to get published in any other writing genre. Even for poets, the info provided is so meager as to hardly warrant anyone's attention.
Well, if you can't really get your work out there by a normal channel, there's always contests, right? The book has several listed. However, given your chances of winning, isn't this route to getting your book published more like winning the lottery than a serious, methodical, and professional approach?
Grant money is discussed, but once again, is this the way to get your book published? Most writers don't go this route. These monies are also usually distributed to writers' with work in the channel
Publishers are listed, but with more comprehensive lists of publishers available in other, more routinely updated books, why go with this one?
The actual process for getting your book from your vision to a reality within a hardcover is given just under ten pages of space in the book. Wow.
This is not to say that nothing here is usable. There are lists of professional writing organizations that offer health insurance, lists of other books on getting your book published(?), and some other semi-helpful lists. Still, considering the title, this book does everything but what it promises to help you do.
From poor organization of information to unusable advice by unknown authors, this book is a mess. How it even got published is beyond me. Absolutely pass on this one.
Rating: 1
Summary: If you see this book....
Comment: If you see this book, don't just don't buy it. Make the sign of the cross. Get out a silver dagger. Find a chain of garlic.
Although this book is nicely written and well organized, following its principles are certain death for writers. I will only say that I personally was a very successful writer of books (well, by some measures, I was earning 6 figures writing all day
then I started reading one of the authors' books and even hiring them for their professional services. Following these instructions carefully, I went from earning 6 figures to bankruptcy in 2 years. When I went back to following my intuition rather than a book or a super agent, a few months ago, suddenly things started flowing my way again.
If you are a new writer, please, please, please don't buy this book. It will ruin your professional life. Follow the muse inside, be a decent person in the universe and allow opportunities to come to you. But please don't read this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: great resource!
Comment: This book is a wonderful resource for new writers and those who've been around quite a while. Despite what a few crabapples say, it is easy to find what you're looking for, and nicely written, too. I highly recommend it.
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Title: Getting Your Book Published for Dummies by Sarah Parsons Zackheim, Adrian Zackheim ISBN: 0764552570 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 17 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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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: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman ISBN: 068485743X Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 20 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? by Rick Warren ISBN: 0310205719 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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