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Jeff Herman’s Guide to Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents, 29th Edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434

Jeff Herman’s Guide to Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents, 29th Edition

Jeff Herman’s Guide unmasks nonsense, clears confusion, and unlocks secret doorways to success for new and veteran writers! This highly respected resource is used by publishing insiders everywhere and has been read by millions all over the world. Countless writers have turned to this book to figure out how to decipher the hidden codes to getting published. It reveals: • tools to discern and exploit the rapidly changing publishing environment • the crucial differences between independent houses and the “Big 5” publishers • hard truths about self-publishing • names, interests, and contact information of hundreds of agents and editors • how writers unwittingly disqualify themsel...

The Huntress
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

The Huntress

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-08-23
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  • Publisher: Pantheon

From National Book Award–winner Michael J. Arlen and screenwriter Alice Arlen, here is the fascinating, adventurous life of Alicia Patterson, who became, at age thirty-four, one of the youngest and most successful newspaper publishers in America when she founded Newsday. With The Huntress, the Arlens give us a revealing picture of the lifestyle and traditions of the Patterson-Medill publishingdynasty—one of the country’s most powerful and influential newspaper families—but also Alicia’s rebellious early years and her dominating father, Joseph Patterson. Founder and editor of the New York Daily News, Patterson was a complicated and glamorous figure who in his youth had reported on P...

Seeing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Seeing

In the tradition of Katy Tur, Jane Pauley, and Peter Jennings, Chai Jing shows us the power of television news and the complex challenges of reporting in China. After becoming a radio DJ in college and a TV interviewer at 23, Chai Jing is thrust into the spotlight when she takes on a position as a news anchor at CCTV, China’s official state news channel. Chai struggles to find her role in a male-dominated news organization, discovering corruption, courage, and hope within the people she meets while honing her talent for getting people to reveal themselves to her. In eleven propulsive and deeply felt chapters, Chai recounts her investigations into SARS quarantine wards, a childhood suicide ...

The Price of Illusion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

The Price of Illusion

From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter and gold, illusion and reality, and what looks like happiness from the thing itself. Born into a world of make-believe as the daughter of a larger-than-life film producer, Joan Juliet Buck’s childhood was a whirlwind of famous faces, ever-changing home addresses, and a fascination with the shiny surfaces of things. When Joan became the first and only American woman ever to fill Paris Vogue's coveted position of...

The Rainbow Comes and Goes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 167

The Rainbow Comes and Goes

#1 New York Times Bestseller A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, offering timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their lives The Rainbow Comes and Goes is a charming, intimate and fascinating collection of correspondence between broadcaster and #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, the celebrated Gloria Vanderbilt. Anderson Cooper’s intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS’ 60 Minutes affords him little time to spend with his ninety-one year old mother. After she briefly fell ill, he and Gloria began a conversation through e-mail unlike any they had ever had before —a corresp...

Editor & Publisher
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 924

Editor & Publisher

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1944
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1892
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1316

Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1891
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Author & Journalist
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 778

The Author & Journalist

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1958
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents 2006
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 820

Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents 2006

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Now updated for 2008, this annual edition of the classic bestselling directory provides everything working writers need to find the most receptive publishers, editors, and agents for their work.

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