{"product_id":"2940011058585","title":"Dealing with Editors","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1982, before the widespread use of personal computers, the Internet, and electronic publishing, THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER concentrated on writing and selling to the print media--books and magazines. Updated excerpts are now being reprinted electronically on various topics--still focused on those primary areas, but still applicable to the current-day writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheodore Sturgeon called the book \"the second best reference book a writer can have, after the dictionary.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarlan Ellison said, \"It may not make you a better writer, but it will keep you from being a poorer one.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsaac Asimov said, \"Thank goodness! I am constantly being asked an infinity of questions about the writing business and can never answer coherently. Now I will stamp cards with a stamp that says: READ THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER. IT WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING, CLEARLY AND INTERESTINGLY. Why on Earth didn't he write the book forty years ago when it would have done me some good?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis excerpt compares the jobs of magazine and book editors and discusses how to maintain good author-editor relations, as well as how to go about negotiating the terms of sales to your publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Parsina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157379268848,"sku":"2940011058585","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011058585_p0.jpg?v=1763899911","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011058585","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}