How to Sell Your Books: A Publisher Speaks: Helping Writers Succeed

by Joan West Ph D

Overview

Get the scoop on publishing from former Agent and current Publisher Joan West! This book contains all the info you need to get your publishing career on its way! Joan's mission is simple: Helping writers to succeed!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781502902979
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/07/2014
Series:	How to Sell Your Books , #3
Pages:	230
Sales rank:	700,905
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

From a stay-at-home mom to an analyst for a fortune five hundred corporation and back to college for a doctorate to put on the hat of a college professor, Joan West has moved from one career to another.

After retiring from teaching, she expanded on the article writing niche she had carved out for herself into writing a novel. As a member of a writers' group, she felt that new authors were receiving short shrift from agents and editors and decided to try her hand as a literary agent. After much research, she joined hands with Lois Bennett to form Bennett and West Literary Agency. The two placed many of their clients' manuscripts into the hands of publishers, but with the advent of perceived chaos in the publishing industry, it became more and more clear that new, untried authors were not particularly welcome.

With a feeling of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," Joan and Lois embarked on the adventure of operating a small press publishing company, Fireside Publications. Her first nonfiction book, An Agent Speaks: A Primer for Unpublished Writers, is followed by this one, A Publisher Speaks: Helping Writers Succeed, which continues her mission of-what else-helping writers succeed.
Joan lives in Florida with her editor husband, Glen.

Contact Joan at: [e-mail]. Put Joan West in the subject line.