The Writer Within You: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing and Publishing in Your Retirement Years - Softcover

Charles Jacobs

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Synopsis

The Writer Within You responds to repeated requests by Retirees-both Seniors and Baby Boomers-who long to become published authors and have repeatedly requested a simplified, comprehensive, single-volume guidebook to lead them through the confusing publishing process from initial planning to final success. It teaches readers the basics of crafting a book or articles and simplifies the challenge of selecting the best method of publishing, marketing, and promoting their work. The book is divided into sections. "Writing Your Book" includes instruction in crafting a novel, memoir, or how-to. A separate section devoted to freelancing articles covers researching ideas, writing and placement in periodicals. The primary methods of book publishing are explained to help readers choose what best suits their needs. The "Marketing and Promotion" section leads the reader through these processes from advance review copies through branding, signings, press contacts, and the use of the Internet. Several chapters are devoted to an extensive look into writing and promoting on the Web. Readers are given guidelines for researching, editing, rewriting, and organizing an office and business. An extensive Appendix provides tested resources for authors. Toned boxes labeled "Words of Wisdom" are sprinkled throughout the book with quotations and advice from recognized authors, literary agents, publishers, and academics. \n

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About the Author

A graduate of Columbia University's Pulitzer School of Journalism, Charles Jacobs rose from a reporter on the New York Journal American to Publisher/President of the Alameda Newspaper Group in San Francisco and following that to CEO of the Garden State Newspaper Group and Publisher of the North Jersey Herald & News in his home state of New Jersey. Since retiring, he has freelanced more than 750 articles to magazines and newspapers from the Los Angeles Times on the West Coast to the New York Times in the East and to outlets in Canada as well. His writing has won awards from professional organizations like the Society of Professional Journalists, New Jersey Press Club, North American Travel Writers Association and others. His novel Blood Bond was published in 2003, and he has ghost written several nonfiction books.

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