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The Everything Get Published Book (Everything)

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The Everything Get Published Book is a definitive, step-by-step, "how to" instructional guide for turning book ideas into published works. Peter Rubie's easy-to-follow instructions on how to write proposals, get an agent, attract the attention of editors and publishers are solid, sound, and essential. Peter Rubie draws upon his expertise and experience as a veteran of the publishing industry, having been an editor, authors, and presently, a literary agent with his own firm of Perkins, Rubie and Associates in explaining how the publishing industry really works and how to adapt to the system and get published. The Everything Get Published Book is enhanced for the aspiring author with hundreds of names of book publishers, executives, and literary agents. Also covered is the new phenomena of electronic publishing, writing seminars, author networking, and a great deal more!

As an author - The Ghostwriter Mystery Series - and thenon-fiction, Foxy Forever ...and a very happy client of the PeterRubie Literary Agency - I suggest you buy, read and heed his advice!When I started working on Ghostwriter, I had no idea that my idea could become a series! However, my agent, Peter Rubie, knew and sold my proposal as a three book deal. The invaluable tips of the trade that he shares in this comprehensive, fun-to-read text book can be your path to publication. I'm thrilled that Peter opted to use my Ghostwriter proposal as a fiction sample in his The Everything Get Published Book. I teach workshops at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD and at the Florida Center for the Book in Fort Lauderdale. Peter Rubie's book has been added to my program!

THIS BOOK IS LAID OUT EXCEPTIONALLY. IT IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND IT TAKES YOU THROUGH EACH PROCESS. IT ALSO LISTS BOOK PUBLISHERS;ADDRESS'S AND PHONE #'S. IT LIST PROGRAMS THAT TELL YOU ABOUT WRITING AND ALSO BOOKS. IT GIVES YOU WEB-SITES FOR WRITERS ALSO. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ALL INTERESTED WRITERS WHO NEED TO KNOW WHERE TO START AND HOW TO GO ABOUT IT. ;+))

Being a total novice to the publishing industry I found The Everything Get Published Book by Peter Rubie pretty helpful. It covered everything from writing tools, marketing yourself to an agent, to P.O.D. publishing. I also found it to have a fairly good reference section with agents names and addresses as well as publishing companies and their URL's. Some where outdated, but the book was copyrighted in 2000 also. Overall I found a worthwhile read.

I have so many story ideas floating around in my head. Not unlike an idea for a dress or a purse, I have no clue how to get it from my head on to paper in a concise way. I think this book will be a great learning tool!

I almost always recommend this book to author clients who want to know how to write an effective book proposal. Peter Rubie clearly and concisely helps aspiring authors take the steps necessary to have their manuscripts noticed by agents and publishers. Highly recommended.

general information too precise that it doesnt really help you. Very very basic and you can find the information just surfing the net, but that its put in a book but it doesnt offer anything more or helpful.

I was disappointed with this book. It seems to be outdated, and it did not give me much of an incite as to how to get published.

The book has all the info that is needed to get things published and it is helpful too.

When you see title "Everything" you expect everything. Well,it is not. Freedom of speech is not mentioned at all.OK. Copyrighted material use not mentioned at all.OK. Adult books industry not mentioned at all.OK. Publishing outside US not mentioned at all.OK ...and so on.