Book publishing insights from Alan Rinzler
Last month I was in San Francisco on business, and was granted the opportunity to meet with Alan Rinzler, an editor with John Wiley & Sons. Though my book is published by Wiley, Alan’s not in my division so I don’t get access to him through the company. This was a special one-on-one meeting requested [...]
Update on Essentials of Corporate Fraud and book publishing in general
Things are going swimmingly with Essentials of Corporate Fraud, but I find myself not knowing how to answer a common question. “How are book sales going?” Well, I don’t know. What is your frame of reference?
Professional books like this aren’t ever going to be New York Times best sellers, so if that’s what your definition [...]
No, book publishing is not going away
Yesterday Fox Business interviewed Joe Wikert, a blogger and Vice President and Executive Publisher at John Wiley & Sons (the company that published my book!) Take a look at what Joe has to say below. I agree with him – Book publishing is not going away. It’s simply changing to capitalize on changes in the [...]
Podcast about my book, Essentials of Corporate Fraud
Authors on the Net, a site that helps authors promote their books, has published a podcast I recently recorded with the site’s founder, Phil Davis.
All you self-publishers need to get on over to Authors on the Net and sign up! Phil has been in the publishing industry for a long time, and has been asked [...]
Book Publishing: Essentials of Corporate Fraud is done!
It’s official! My first book, Essentials of Corporate Fraud is done. It is on its way to the printer, to be ready for shipment by March 14, if not sooner.
The hard work was in writing it, the stuff that came after that was a relative breeze. Although when people ask me if it was hard [...]
Book publishing: Post-writing activities and deadlines
A few months ago, I wrote a series on this blog about my experience getting my first book published. I was hoping to inspire some other professionals out there who might be thinking about writing a book of their own, and from the emails I received, it looks like it worked!
I submitted my final manuscript [...]
Book publishing: The book is done!
The final manuscript was sent today, so Essentials of Corporate Fraud is officially done. I’ll have a small bit of work to do after the copy editors get their hands on it, but I don’t expect there to be much to do in that regard.
Overall the process of writing the book was fun. I wrote [...]
Book Publishing: Finalizing the contract, writing the book, and meeting deadlines
I am wrapping up writing my manuscript entitled Essentials of Corporate Fraud, to be published by John Wiley & Sons. I’ve been discussing my experience with finding a publisher and getting a book deal here. It’s been an interesting process, and not quite what I expected.
In a nutshell, it has been way easier than [...]
Book Publishing: How to write a book?
I found this post about writing a book on Scott Berkun’s website. Scott is an author and consultant in the software industry. Apparently since he’s written a successful book, a lot of professionals come to him for advice about book writing.
But the truth is that anyone can write a book, as Scott points out. But [...]
Book Publishing: Negotiating the contract
After a couple of weeks of other topics, I’m back to continue my series on how I got my book deal and what I’ve learned about getting a book published.
It came time to negotiate my contract with Wiley, and I was happy that I had an experienced attorney to help. So You Want to Write [...]
