A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Your Book
Our Author’s Guide is written primarily for authors of memoirs, personal histories, family histories, and tribute books. Many of the exercises to generate ideas draw upon first-hand experiences. However, the step-by-step process will work for other types of books, too.
Easy Instructions to Guarantee Your Success
Each chapter is filled with simple exercises and illustrations that help you to select your best stories and the best photographs to accompany them. Your Guide also helps you to collaborate with your editor as you talk about your manuscript and your book’s layout and design. Most important, you will have a comprehensive overview of the author's process that will allow you to complete your book successfully without time-wasting detours.
Contents
1. Introduction: It’s Important to Tell Your Story
2. The Stories To Tell Process: An Overview
3. Your Starting Point: Goals, Audience, and Raw Materials
4. Exercises for Generating Your Content
5. Sorting and Organizing the Contents of Your Book
6. Your Master Plan: The Easy Way to Outline Your Book
7. Submitting Stories, Photos & Other Illustrations
8. Revising: The Rough Draft Manuscript and Your Editor
9. Improving Chapter and Story Titles
10. Refining Images: Your Best Bets for Print
11. Working With Your Editor
12. Cover Design
13. Evaluating the Final Proof
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