Ask the Book Doctor: How to Beat the Competition and Sell Your Writing

Ask the Book Doctor: How to Beat the Competition and Sell Your Writing quickly answers all the questions you wish you could ask a writing and editing expert. A compendium of questions asked by writers like you and answered by Bobbie Christmas and other experts, this book features many clickable links that take you to resources that also help you write, edit, and sell your work, whether you write books, short stories, articles, reports, or anything else, for that matter.

Because Bobbie has been a book editor for many years, she writes a column called Ask the Book Doctor that appears in newsletters and Web sites for writers, and from it she selected the best questions and answers for this collection. You'll learn the difference between Chicago Style (preferred by book publishers) and the writing style we learned in school. You will read answers to finding agents, handling copyrights, business writing, word-processing, grammar, manuscript format, educational opportunities for writers, creative writing, finding employment as a writer or editor, finding a publisher, writing for magazines, legal issues, critique circles, self-publishing and more. You can even send in your questions and get direct answers, and your Q & A may appear in a future column or book.

Bobbie Christmas is the double-award-winning author of Write In Style, published by Union Square Publishing and distributed by Simon & Schuster. Ask the Book Doctor: How to Beat the Competition and Sell Your Writing is Bobbie's fourth book and first e-book.