Get Your First Book Published

by Jason Shinder

Career Press, June, 2001.
Trade Paperback, 346 pages.
ISBN: 156414450X

Get Your First Book Published is a collection of advice, awards, resources, publisher listings and profiles of how well-known authors published their first books. This book does a superb job of listing and summarizing hundreds of available awards for both books and poetry chapbooks, including awards exclusively for first-time authors. Also included are market listings for publishers favorable to unpublished first-book manuscripts. Contact information for each contest and publisher listing are included. Other lists in the book include organizations for authors, publications and websites. Articles and tips about writing, plus anecdotes by writers about their experiences in publishing their first novels are also included. Get Your First Book Published is a well-planned and detailed collection of information and resources for the writer seeking to publish his first book.

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This review was published in the May, 2001 of The Internet Writing Journal.