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21) Foul matter
Author
Language
English
Description
An egotistical writer slashes his way through the cutthroat world of book publishing.
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
No matter what you're writing--fiction or nonfiction, books for adults or children--you need a literary agent to get the best book deal possible from a traditional publisher. Guide to Literary Agents 30th edition is your go-to resource for finding that literary agent and earning a contract from a reputable publisher.
27) Off the books
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Novel Idea Literary Agency has planned a wedding-themed week for Inspiration Valley, celebrating not only North Carolina's best vendors but also some of the agency's most popular bridal books. The fact that Lila can use the event to plan her own impending nuptials is just the icing on the cake. But wedding bells turn to warning bells when Lila finds a dead man facedown in the frosting. Soon it's discovered that the victim was connected to several...
Author
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
The history of writing is full of authors striving to succeed in a hyper-competetive publishing world, contending with agents, editors, publishers, critics, and sometimes the greatest challenge of all - overnight success. For all of the extaordinary changes that have recently taken place, however, there are a few things that remain the same. Getting published still requires persistence, preparation, and smarts, as well as an understanding of how the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An unforgettable novel from an award-winning author about an ambitious young agent's daring fight to protect blacklisted writers in McCarthy-era Hollywood and her passionate relationship with an African American journalist. Outraged by her grandfather's illicit affair with Empire Pictures' latest femme fatale, Roxanne Granville forsakes her position as Hollywood royalty and rejects the man who raised her, determined to strike out on her own. Backed...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Erin Hosier and her family belonged to a strict evangelical church in Bainbridge, Ohio, for the first fourteen years of her life. But Erin was a rebel of the eighties who dyed her hair with cherry Kool-Aid while loudly defending liberal causes. Behind closed doors, she and her family were "five mentally ill people at different stages of development, screaming and flailing hysterically like hyenas." At the heart of the family was her father, Jack,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When the demo kitchen blows up on the eve of the Taste of the Town festival, taking one of the star cooks with it, Lila will have to scramble to figure out which of her clients is a killer--before someone else gets burned"--