BESTSELLING BOOK PROPOSALS - Author 101 - The Insider's Guide to Selling Your Work

Frishman, Rick; Spizman, Robyn Freedman

ISBN 10: 1593374127 / ISBN 13: 9781593374129

Published by Adams Media Corporation, Avon, Massachusetts, 2005

About this Item

249 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed at the corners with a faint crease in the upper right of the front cover and a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The art of creating the killer book proposal. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 225995

Bibliographic Details

• Title: BESTSELLING BOOK PROPOSALS - Author 101 - The Insider's Guide to Selling Your Work
• Publisher: Adams Media Corporation, Avon, Massachusetts
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593374127
• ISBN 13: 9781593374129
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Printing - First Thus.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Writing and Language
  • General Interest

About this title

Synopsis

Would-be authors are taken through all stages of developing a book proposal in this insider's guide to researching and writing an effective proposal, which comes complete with definitions, exercises, reviews, and other helpful advice. Original. 50,000 first printing.

About the Author

Rick Frishman, Publisher at Union Square Publishing in New York and founder of Planned Television Arts (now called Media Connect), has been one of the leading book publicists in America for over 43 years. Rick works with many of the top book editors, literary agents, and publishers in America, including Simon and Schuster, Harper Collins and Random House.

Rick is Co-author of 18 books including Author101, 250 Rules of Business, Guerrilla Publicity and Networking Magic.
Union Square Publishing publishes fiction and nonfiction books and looks for authors who believe in giving back.

He has worked with hundreds of bestselling authors such as Mitch Albom, Bill Moyers, Stephen King, Caroline Kennedy, Mayor Ed Koch, Howard Stern, President Jimmy Carter, Sophia Loren, Smokey Robinson, Nelson DeMille, Barbara Bush, Jackie Collins, Arnold Palmer, Yogi Berra, Whoppi Goldberg, Vanessa Redgrave, Charlton Heston, Henry Kissinger, Bill Parcells, Larry King, Don Shula, Walter Cronkite, Jack Canfield, Martha Stewart, William Shatner,  Nicholas Sparks, Maya Angelou, Malcolm Gladwell, Gov. Mario Cuomo, John Grisham, Salmon Rushdie, and Senator John Glenn.

Rick has appeared on hundreds of radio shows and more than a dozen TV shows nationwide, including Oprah, Fox News and Bloomberg TV. He has also been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Selling Power Magazine, New York Post, and scores of other publications.He has appeared on stage with notables such as Sir Richard Branson, The Dalai Lama, T. Harv Eker, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Tony Hsieh, David Bach, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar and Brendon Burchard.

Rick has a BFA in acting and directing and a BS in communications from Ithaca College. He is a sought-after lecturer on publishing and public relations. He is founder of Author101University.

Rick and his wife Robbi live in Long Island, NY with their Havanese puppy Cody. They have three children: Adam, Rachel, and Stephanie