Charles Patterson

BOOKS ABOUT WRITING AND GETTING PUBLISHED

WRITING

Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way (Jeremy Tarcher, 2002)
Therese Eiben and Mary Gannon, The Practical Writer (Penguin, 2004)
Peter Elbow, Writing Without Teachers (Oxford, 1998)
John Gardner, The Art of Fiction (Vintage, 1991)
___________, On Becoming a Novelist (Norton, 1999)
Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind (Bantam, 1990)
Marcia Golub, I'd Rather Be Writing (Writer's Digest Books, 1999)
Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story (Farrar, Straus, 2002)
Ralph Keyes, The Courage to Write (Owl Books, 2003)
Stephen King, On Writing (Pocket, 2002)
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird (Anchor, 1995)
Maureen Murdoch, Unreliable Truth (Seal Press, 2003)
Francine Prose, Reading Like A Writer (HarperCollins, 2006)
Tristine Rainer, Your Life as Story (Putnam, 1998)
Bill Roorback, Writing Life Stories (Writer's Digest Books, 2000)
Carolyn See, Making a Literary Life (Ballantine, 2003)
William Strunk and E. B. White, Elements of Style (Longman, 2000)
Tobias Wolff, Old School (Knopf, 2003)
William Zinsser, Inventing the Truth (Mariner Books, 1998)
____________, On Writing Well (HarperResource, 2001)

PUBLISHING (General)

Judith Appelbaum, How to Get Happily Published (HarperResource, 1998)
Sheree Bykofsky, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting Published (Alpha Books, 2003)
Noah Lukeman, The First Five Pages (Fireside, 2000)
Marc McCutcheon, Damn! Why Didn’t I Think of That? (Quill Driver Books, 2001)
Susan Page, Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Book (Broadway, 1997)

WRITING A BOOK PROPOSAL

Jeff Herman and Deborah Adams, Write the Perfect Book Proposal (Wiley, 2001)
Michael Larsen, How to Write A Book Proposal (Writer's Digest Books, 2004)
Elizabeth Lyon, Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write (Perigree Books, 2002)

AGENTS

Kathryn Brogan, Guide to Literary Agents 2005 (Writers Digest Books, 2004)
Richard Curtis, How to Be Your Own Literary Agent (Houghton Mifflin, 2003)
Michael Larsen, Literary Agents (Wiley, 1996)
Fern Reiss, The Publishing Game: Find an Agent in 30 Days (Peanut Butter and Jelly Press, 2002)

BOOKS THAT LIST AGENTS AND PUBLISHERS

Jeff Herman, Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers & Literary Agents (Prima Lifestyles, 2002)
Literary Market Place (reference available in most libraries)

SELF-PUBLISHING

Sylvia Hemmerly, Unlocking the Secrets of Publishing (Inkling Press, 2002)
David Li, All-By-Yourself Self-Publishing (Premier, 1996)
Janice & Joan Phelps, Wham! Bam! Publishing (Lucky Press, 2005)
Dan Poynter, The Self-Publishing Manual (Para Publishing, 2006)
Fern Reiss, The Publishing Game: Publish a Book in 30 Days (Peanut Butter and Jelly Press, 2003)
Morris Rosenthal, Print-On-Demand Book Publishing (Foner Books, 2004)
Tom & Marilyn Ross, Complete Guide to Self-Publishing (Writer's Digest Books, 2002)
Penny Sansevieri, Get Published Today (Infinity Publishing, 2002)
Gavin Sinclair, Self-Publishing Fiction (Mainland Press, 2005)

PRINT ON DEMAND (POD)

John Harnish, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About POD Publishing (Infinity Publishing, 2002)

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING

Karen Wiesner, Electronic Publishing: The Definitive Guide (Avid Press, 2001)

PROMOTING/MARKETING YOUR BOOK

Rick Frishman & Robyn Freedman Spizman, Author 101 Bestselling Book Publicity (Adams Publishing Group, 2006)
Shel Horowitz, Grassroots Marketing (Chelsea Green, 2000)
Brian Jud, Beyond the Bookstore (Reed Press, 2003)
John Kremer, 1001 Ways to Market Your Books (Open Horizons, 2000)
Jay Conrad Levinson, et al, Guerrilla Marketing for Writers (Writers Digest Books, 2000)
Fern Reiss, The Publishing Game: Bestseller in 30 Days (Peanut Butter and Jelly Press, 2002)

BECOMING A PUBLISHER

Peter Hupalo, How to Start and Run a Small Book Publishing Company (HCM Publishing, 2002)
Jonathan Kirsch, Kirsch's Handbook of Publishing Law (Acrobat Books, 1994)
Tom Woll, Publishing for Profit (Chicago Review Press, 2002)