Jackinson, Alex

Cocktail party for the author /Alex Jackinson - Boston: Challenge Press Inc., 1964 - 267 p.

1 GOAL-PUBLICATION

Changing from Magazine Writing to Books. What Type First Book? Being a "With" Collaborator. Planning the First Novel. What About Trying En-gland? The Paperbacks? Will More Sex Make the Book More Saleable? Paying for Editorial Assistance Complaints on Agents Agents' Complaint on Authors

2 THE "DR. SALK" BOOK

A Classic Literary Hoax Is Averted. Some Vagaries of Publishing

3 HOW TRUE ARE THE TRUE ADVENTURES? Writing for the Men's Magazines

4 THE QUALITY SHORT STORY WRITER AND THE SLICKS Writing for the Women's Magazines

5 ROUGH PASSAGE AND JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES

A Look into "Co-operative" Publishing Subsidy Pub-lishing Sponsored Publishing

6 ON WRITING AND WRITING TO SELL Some Popular Writing Conceptions-And Misconcep-tions. What Happens to Your Submission Once It Arrives at a Magazine When Should Queries Be Sent? The Full Article? Are Ideas Bought and As-signed to Others? Are Ideas Stolen? How Careful a Hearing Did Your MS. Receive? Getting Published Through an Agent's "Contacts". But They Held It so Long The Polite (but Meaningless) Rejection Let



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Cocktail--Party

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