Campus eBookstore Logo

Skip Navigation LinksEBook Details

Writing Local History Today: A Guide to Researching, Publishing, and Marketing Your Book

Writing Local History Today: A Guide to Researching, Publishing, and Marketing Your Book
Author: Thomas A. Mason;J. Kent Calder
Price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 075911904X
ISBN-13: 9780759119048
Get It!:
Delivery: BibliU Reader
Duration: Lifetime

Note:
Copy Selections To Clipboard: Copying content to the clipboard is completely disabled
Printing Pages: Printing pages is completely disabled

Description

Writing Local History Today guides local historians through the process of researching, writing, and publishing their work. Mason & Calder present step-by-step advice to guide aspiring authors to a successful publication and focus not only on how to write well but also how to market and sell their work. Highlights include:
  • Discussion of how to identify an audience for your writing project
  • Tips for effective research and planning
  • Sample documents, such as contracts and requests for proposals
  • Discussion of how to use social media to leverage your publication
  • Discussion of the benefits and drawbacks to self-publishing
  • An essay by Gregory Britton, the editorial director of John Hopkins University Press, about financial pitfalls in publishing
This guide is useful for first-time authors who need help with this sometimes daunting process, or for previously published historians who need a quick reference or timely tip.