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Think Like a Publisher and Get Your Book Published

Written by Wordpreneur on September 4, 2008 – 2:13 pm -

Is this brilliant, or what? And simple too. A must-read if I ever saw one. — EES

Developing a Publisher’s Mindset
Article by Bill O’Hanlon

I have had 28 books published by major publishers such as HarperCollins, John Wiley and Sons, W.W. Norton, Penguin and others. When I first became involved in writing and publishing trade books (publishing industry jargon referring to books for a general audience), I had an author’s mindset. That is, I was thinking like an author. “Once they see my proposal, they will realize this will be a great book and they will want to publish it.” Sometimes I sold my proposed books and sometimes I didn’t.

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