An Insider's Guide to Publishing by Comfort, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Contents Introduction Part I. Publish & Perish

Chapter 1. The Age of Innocence Chapter 2. Slaughterhouse-Six Chapter 3. Canaries in the Conglomerate Coal Mine Chapter 4. Survivors Chapter 5. Super PACs Chapter 6. Shit My Editor Says Chapter 7. The Publisher’s Fiction List

Part II. Writer 911!

Chapter 8. The Most Dangerous Game Chapter 9. Ms.Carriages & Hysterical Pregnancies Chapter 10. Blocked Chapter 11. Literary Doping

Part III. The Dues to Pay The Muse

Chapter 12. The Lions Chapter 13. The Wonder Chapter 14. The Red Badge of Courage

Part IV. Luck, Suck, & Pluck

Chapter 15. Luck Chapter 16. Suck Chapter 17. Pluck Chapter 18. LSP Trifecta

Part V. “The Built-In, Shock-Proof, Shit Detector”

Chapter 19. Talent Chapter 20. “An Appeal to the Gullible” Chapter 21. The Elements of Bile Chapter 22. The Kentucky-Fried Bestseller

Part VI. Schmoozing The Muse

Chapter 23. The MFA Mafia Chapter 24. Contests & Grants Chapter 25. Kumbaya Conferences Chapter 26. % Of Your Back End

Part VII. The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Writer

Chapter 27. The Cuckoo’s Nest Chapter 28. Megalomania Chapter 29. Miserable & Manic Chapter 30. Masochistic Chapter 31. Mad

Part VIII. Bards Behaving Badly

Chapter 32. Writers Roughhousing Chapter 33. Poe vs. English Chapter 34. Lewis vs. Drieser Chapter 35. Hemingway vs. Everybody Chapter 36. Mailer vs. Capote vs. Vidal

Part IX. Agents

Chapter 37. Agent Gents Chapter 38. Agents and Gentle Women Chapter 39. The Author-Agent Mating Ritual Chapter 40. How to Bag an Agent Without Gunplay Chapter 41. On the Rocks

Part X. Ms. Impossible

Chapter 42. Anatomy of a 21st-Century Blockbuster Chapter 43. Pushing the S.A.S. Envelope Chapter 44. Ms. Impossible Chapter 45. The Mad Scientist of “Ms. Impossible” Publishing

Part XI. Taking it in The Shorts

Chapter 46. Backstory to the Big Breaks Chapter 47. The Greatest Story Never Sold

Part XII. Vanity of Vanities?

Chapter 48. Demand for “Print on Demand” Chapter 49. The E-Gold Rush Chapter 50. Digital Cinderellas Chapter 51. Luck, Suck, & Pluck 2.0 Chapter 52. E-Romance

Part XIII. $ucce$$

Chapter 53. Dante’s Honeymoon Chapter 54. The Seventh Circle of Sales Chapter 55. The God Almighty Dollar Chapter 56. The Nobel Jar Chapter 57. This Side of Publishing Paradise Chapter 58. Chicken Soup for the S.O.L.

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