Get Your Writing Into Print and Get it Read - Gathered from more than thirty years of writing, editing, and teaching others from 23 nations how to write and publish, Beverly Caruso has assembled a wealth of helpful tips, useful check lists, and step-by-step guidelines.
This book is chock full of practical help for any writer, from beginner to experienced, to improve their writing skills. A detailed section on Promoting Your Book has been hailed by one publisher as the most comprehensive he knows of.
Sections include:
Getting Started
Turning Life Experiences into Articles
How to Know Whether You Have a Book
Writing for Magazines
Narrative and Thematic Writing
Editing Your Own Writing
The Value of Critiques
Manuscript Format
Studying the Markets
Selling and Reselling Articles
Dealing with Rejection
Taking a Book from Concept to Publication
Writing for the Child Reader
Writing for the International Reader
Cover Letters and Book Proposals
Traditional Publishing Houses
Print on Demand
Self-Publishing
Promoting Your Writing
Marketing Plan for a New Book
Mailings, TV & Radio Interviews, The Speaking Circuit
"This book is truly a valuable resource for any Christian writer."
Beverly was married to Peter Caruso for 59 years before his passing. She is the mother of three, grandmother of eight, great-grandmother to twelve. She lives in a four-generational setting on acreage in North Texas. Together the Carusos pioneered and pastored two churches in Southern California for a total of thirty-five years. Bev has been a classroom teacher, school administrator, Bible teacher, author, writing coach, and conference teacher. She has taught in over forty countries. Bev has authored ten books, several booklets, and many magazine articles, plus two newsletter columns. She has been training writers at the university level since 1991, in several of the United States, as well as in Switzerland, Denmark, Greece, Brazil, Canada, and New Zealand.
