ENG105: Creative Writing & Publishing: Publishing

No writer or content creator wants to see their work copied. This all-in-one resource shows you how to register your work, maximize copyright protection (including internationally), understand the 'fair use' rule, deal with infringers (online and off), get permission to use copyrighted work, profit from your copyright, and much more.

Experienced editor and publisher Jane Friedman offers insights and offers step-by-step advice on: evaluating the commercial potential for your work; finding and approaching editors and agents professionally; preparing query letters and book proposal materials; marketing and promoting your work effectively; protecting your rights and avoid infringing on others' rights; and understanding the self-publishing and ebook market.

Author of more than 30 novels, stories, and screenplays, and tutor on the prestigious creative writing course at Bath Spa, Fay Weldon has a lifetime of wisdom to impart on the art of writing. Why Will No-One Publish My Novel? will delight and amuse, but it isn't just another how-to-write handbook: it shows you how not to write if you want to get published.

Through in-depth interviews, authors reveal their approach to their craft. Much is known and spoken of the product that is the children's book, but it is rare that writers are given the opportunity to talk at length about the process of writing for children.

The hints, tips and exercises that the author has picked up over his years as a writer, and which got him his publishing deal with Faber, will help the reader to free their imagination and create books that will capture children's hearts forever.