A Recommended Reading List for Authors and New Publishers

Janice Phelps Williams

 

Return to www.JanicePhelps.com for book design, illustration, and editing.

 

Note: Some of these books I’ve had a while and they may no longer be in print. Check Amazon.com for availability. Also, Abebooks.com has used and rare books.

 

Wham! Bam! Publishing: The Strategic Marketing Plan for Authors and Publishers by Janice Phelps and Joan E. Phelps ISBN 0-9706377-2-1

James A. Michener’s Writer’s Handbook: Explorations in Writing and Publishing 

1001 Ways to Market Your Book by John Kremer

The Self-Publishing Manual by Dan Poynter

Writer’s Market FAQs by Peter Rubie

On Writing by Stephen King  

Forest for the Trees : An Editor’s Advice to Writers by Betsy Lerner

Selling Subsidiary Rights by Tom Woll

Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore by Suzanne Strempek Shea

Woe is I and Words Fail Me by Patricia T. O’Conner

Editing Fact and Fiction: A Concise Guide to Book Editing by Leslie T. Sharpe

Book Business: Publishing Past Present and Future by Jason Epstein

Publishing for Profit: Successful Bottom-Line Management for Book Publishers by Thomas Woll

On Writing Well by William Zinsser

Another Life by Michael Korda 

Techniques of a Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain

 

 

Magazines: Writers Digest; Publishers Weekly and other writing related magazines many of which are in the library or at fine bookstores.