The Sell Your Novel Tool kit (Paperback)

by Elizabeth Lyon (Author) "You must write what you must write..." (more)
Key Phrases: categorize your novel, standard query letter, independent book editor, New York, Land of Thirst, Resource Directory (more...)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
In this book, Elizabeth Lyon offers novelists the wisdom of her experience as an author, book editor, writing instructor, and marketing consultant. Step-by-step, she details what editors want, what questions to ask them, and how to develop a marketing strategy.

About the Author
Elizabeth Lyon has been a contributing writer to Writer's Digest and is a mentor, editor, and teacher for many writers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade; Revised edition (December 3, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399528288
• ISBN-13: 978-0399528286
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #176,933 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is an author's roadmap to success ...., July 11, 2003

By	"dhanselmo" (Maryland, United States) - See all my reviews

Elizabeth Lyon's new book, Sell Your Novel Toolkit, provides a detailed roadmap for producing a well qualified query letter, synopsis and tips to manage that all important marketing strategy.

Ms. Lyon's Toolkit is written from the perspective of an accomplished, well-seasoned author who has experienced it all and learned from her own writing successes. Ms. Lyon's product is not only functional, but encouraging to the author who is already established, or entering the publishing environment for the first time.

The Toolkit has enhanced my abilities as a newly published author and I look forward to the next book.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Sell Your Novel Toolkit, June 30, 2003

By	Candice C. Davis (Cottage Grove, OR United States) - See all my reviews

Obviously an accomplished writer herself, Ms. Lyon seems to have a sixth sense about the quandaries we novelists ponder each night when we could be sleeping. Should I write a prologue? How do I keep track of crisscrossing submissions? Should I give up after the tenth rejection letter? Tool Kiit offers the steadying voice of an accomplished independent editor who has made it her life's work to delve into every detail of publishing, and she has come up with a workable plan of attack.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A well-stocked toolkit!, June 18, 2003

By A Customer

I dug into the "Sell Your Novel Toolkit" right away, pulling out information I needed immediately, then went back and read the entire book beginning to end. Ms. Lyon has done a superb job of packing all the tools a novel writer could need into her beautifully written "Toolkit." It's been my guide through each step of marketing my fiction. The amount of research packed into the appendices alone is worth the cost of the book.