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Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody can Write (Revised and Updated)
Sign the contract…then write the book. The good news is that almost every nonfiction book published is sold by a proposal. In this comprehensive yet accessible guide, you will learn exactly what a proposal is, what it must contain, and how to pull yours together into an informative, persuasive selling package. Already a favorite for thousands of aspiring writers, this book has been revised and updated by Elizabeth Lyon to feature nearly two dozen actual proposals, plus: · Choosing a topic based on current trends and competing titles · Drafting the perfect concept statement—daring agents and editors to reject you · Defining and targeting your readership—then connecting with them · Preparing a table of contents and chapter summaries · Submitting exciting and well-written sample chapters · Writing query letters · Devising a marketing plan that will excite agents and publishers
Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write
Innovative guide to writing book proposals that sell. A boon to writers, teachers, editors, publishers, and agents. Step-by-step, Lyon takes the reader through the process of preparing a succinct, targeted marketing plan for a nonfiction book. Through copious examples, she demonstrates what to do -- and what not to do -- to get the positive attention of editors, agents, and publishers.
Stop Being Manipulated
Written by experts in psychology and business, this book uncovers subtle forms of manipulation in today's society, from bosses and relatives to advertisement and sales tactics, teaches how to decode them, and tells readers how to reclaim the power to make their own decisions.
More Language of Letting Go
Daily thoughts provide readers with ongoing insights into issues such as surrendering, the damaging effects of manipulation, and healthy communication. This new volume of meditations offers clients ongoing wisdom and guidance about relationship issues. An excellent enhancement to therapy, daily thoughts provide clients with ongoing insights into issues such as surrendering, the damaging effects of manipulation, and healthy communication. More Language of Letting Go shares unsentimental, direct help for clients recovering from chemical dependency, healing from relationships and family issues, and exploring personal growth.
Reclaiming Artistic Research
This expanded second edition of Reclaiming Artistic Research explores artistic research in dialogue with 24 artists worldwide, reclaiming it from academic associations of the term. Embracing artists' dynamic engagement with other fields, it foregrounds the material, spatial, embodied, organizational, choreographic, and technological ways of knowing and unknowing specific to contemporary artistic inquiry. The second edition features a new text by the author and four new artist dialogues to reflect on the changing stakes of artistic research in the wake of the global pandemic, a widespread reckoning with social justice, the growing role of artificial intelligence, and the urgent reality of climate change. LUCY COTTER (*1973, Ireland) is a writer, curator, and artist. She was Curator of the Dutch Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017, and Curator in Residence at Oregon Center for Contemporary Art 2021–22. The inaugural director of the Master Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Cotter has lectured internationally, most recently at Portland State University. She holds a project residency at Stelo Arts and Culture Foundation 2023-24.
Strong Family History, Update: Jedediah Strong, son of Elder John Strong
John Strong Jr. (ca. 1610-1699) was a son of John Stronge Sr. and Eleanor Dean of Chard, Somerset County, England. John Jr. married Margery Dean, a first cousin, and immigrated in 1630 to Hingham, Massachusetts. Margery died shortly, and John married Abigail Ford in 1635. He fathered 18 children, of whom 15 had families. His family moved in 1638 to Taunton, in 1646 to Windsor, Connecticut, and in 1659 to Northampton, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, North Dakota, Virginia and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada. Includes ancestry in England to the early 1500s. Also includes history of the Strong Family Association of America, Inc. from its beginning in 1975 to the present, with its constitution and by-laws, as well as its national and regional officers, changes thereto, and brief reports of family reunions.
