This book offers detailed tips and guidelines covering the entire process, from creating a proposal that gets you through the door to preparing your manuscript for publication. Successful how-to book editor and author Jean Stine provides writers with the tried-and-true strategies bestselling authors use, including clearly identifying your audience; writing effective chapter titles, heads, and subheads; and using illustrations and charts to enhance the text.
-- Draws on examples from actual editorial notes sent to published authors
-- Ideas can be used to write a self-help or how-to book on any subject, including health, home improvement, business, psychology, math, travel, and more
-- "If you follow only a third of Jean's advice, you'll have a successful book". -- Jeremy Tarcher, Publisher