Book Bible

A Brilliant, Buoyant Guide to Publishing Your Book Hundreds of thousands of books come out every yearworldwide. So why not yours? InThe Book Bible, New York Timesbestseller and wildly popular Manhattan writing professor Susan Shapiro reveals the best and fastest ways to break into a mainstream publishing house. Unlike most writing manuals that stick to only one genre, Shapiro maps out the rules of all the sought-after, sellable categories: novels, memoirs, biography, how-to, essay collections, anthologies, humor, mystery, crime, poetry, picture books, young adult and middle grade,fiction and nonfiction. Shapiro once worried that selling 16 books in varied sub-sections made her a literary dabbler. Yet after helping her students publish many award-winning bestsellers on all shelves of the bookstore, she realized that her versatility had a huge upside. She could explain, from personal experience, the differences in making each kind of book, as well as ways to find the right genre for every project and how to crafta winning proposal or great cover letter to get a top agentand book editor to say yes. This valuable guide will teach both new and experiencedscribes how to attain their dream of becoming a successfulauthor.