Chatgris Press
Everything You Need to Improve your writing, get jobs as a writer, and learn about publishing
Chatgris Press has just introduced its new The Professional Writer—Three-Book Set: Your Complete Guide for Improving Your Writing, Getting Writing Jobs, and Learning About Publishing, and it has answers to questions like:
· How can I improve my writing to make me more marketable as a freelancer?
· Where do I find publications to buy my articles?
· How do I handle rights and permissions?
· How do I negotiate my fees?
· How can I learn to write a book?
· What is book publishing all about?
· What home-office equipment do I need to be a writer and/or publisher?
· How do I handle copyright issues?
The answers you’ll get to these and many other questions about writing and publishing are full of specific, step-by-step details. And all this advice comes straight from one of the best authorities—an author of 10 books and 152 articles in 46 magazines and trade journals.
The Professional Writer—Three-Book Set was developed specifically for writers who are ready to work independently and want to do it in the right way—by maximizing efficiency and profits and minimizing stress and mistakes.
Everything You Need to Build a Successful Writing and Publishing Business
If you faithfully use the information in The Professional Writer—Three-Book Set, you will:
· Improve your writing skills beyond imagination
· Gain confidence in speaking with editors and publishers
· Learn how and where to find writing jobs
· Expand your contacts allowing you to pick and choose the work you want
· Learn how to set appropriate fees as an editor, writer, and publisher
· Always be organized, motivated, and focused
· Maximize your income by branching into numerous vocational areas
Chatgris Press is not expecting you to take this big step on your own. We’ve done 95 percent of the work for you, and will be with you every step of the way.
Strong Writing is Only Part of Your Successful Business
The Professional Writer—Three-Book Set contains everything you need to know and do to start and run your own writing, editing, and publishing business. Putting its strategies to work for you ensures that your business will be everything you were aiming for while you worked your way through Chatgris Press’s literature. To succeed, you’re going to have to do things like:
Concentrate on improving your writing skills. Improved writing skills can accelerate the business of even the best writer. Yet, few beginning writers understand this. The Professional Writer—Three-Book Set describes how to improve writing and overall composition skills.
Learn what magazine editors what, and give it to them. One reason many writers never see their articles in print is because they simply don’t know what the editors want. This is just one of the many things that The Professional Writer—Three-Book Set does for you: It tells you how to find out exactly what editors want quickly and efficiently so you can sell them articles for which they are will to pay top dollar.
Learn about publishing companies so you can start your own. Once you’ve perfected your writing and sold your articles to well-paying magazines, you might decide to work on a book. But instead of waiting the standard 12 to 18 months from acceptance to publication, your topic may be timelier. The Professional Writer—Three-Book Set shows you how to set up a book publishing company and work with printers to produce quality books in record time—for you and others as well!
To be successful in your writing and publishing endeavors you have to learn how other successful writers work. The Professional Writer—Three Book Set provides just such information in its well-written, easy-to-follow books. Once you’ve finished these books, you will be on your way to:
· Becoming a better writer
· Getting your articles published by magazines and professional/trade journals
· Selling your and others’ books from your own publishing company
· Knowing that your competition is limited because you’re doing the best job possible
Everything You Need to Build and Grow Your Own Writing and Publishing Business
Chatgris Press has packed this invaluable information about improving your writing, writing for periodical publication, and publishing into three books collectively called The Professional Writer—Three-Book Set. Then, we package it and ship it to you three-day United States Postal Service Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation. Here’s what you get:
Book 1, Perfecting Your Prose—A Guide to Improved Writing
Book 1 is as a guide to help writers expand their linguistic knowledge and to remind them of both common as well as obscure grammatical rules and conventions, thereby improving the overall structure and content of their prose. A combination of writing instruction and grammar handbook, the sections within address a variety of linguistic and structural constructions and examples helpful for developing prose as clearly and succinctly as possible.
Part One – The Writing Process highlights the overall writing process to include the difference between subjects and topics while defining the audience and various types of writing. Grammar, style, and mechanics are also addressed, as is how to develop an abstract, summary, or outline in planning a writing project.
1 Subjects and Topics, Audience, and Types of Writing
2 Grammar and Usage, Style, and Mechanics
Part Two – Diction explores linguistic etymology by defining meaning, figurative language, and atypical words and collocations, i.e., the way words and other elements are arranged or juxtaposed. Writing with clarity, simplicity, and concision is explained to help writers prepare text that is clear and comprehendible.
3 Meaning, Clarity, and Simplicity
4 Concision
5 Figurative Language
6 Atypical Words and Collocations
Part Three – Description, Narration, and Punctuation offers advice on using different types of descriptive writing while providing several meanings of narrative. Point of view and tone in narrative are also included. This section also provides valuable information on punctuation rules and conventions helpful in developing text that is creative without being confusing.
7 Descriptive Writing and Narrative
8 Punctuation
9 Other Marks of Punctuation
Part Four – The Sentence, delves into types and styles of sentences, and gives writers specific methods for designing well-written sentences.
10 The Sentence Defined
11 Styles of Sentences
12 The Well-Constructed Sentence
Part Five – The Paragraph goes a step further, detailing paragraph coherence and flow, ending with particular methods of paragraph development.
13 Paragraphing
14 Developing Effective Paragraphs
Part Six – The Essay guides the writer through the primary components of the essay, and provides the writer with the necessary tools for drafting, revising, editing, and knowing when to stop.
15 The Beginning, Middle, and Closing
16 Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Proofing
This book ends with lists of resources such as other writing references, dictionaries, thesauri, and online grammar sources.
Book 2 provides valuable information on entering the industry of writing for periodical publications. Designed for both the novice wanting to break into the field as well as veterans wanting to explore new venues, Writing for Magazines and Trade Journals guides writers through the myriad steps involved in writing articles for publication. Whether you’re new to the field of writing articles for publication or have many articles to your credit in numerous periodicals, Writing for Magazines and Trade Journals provides much insight on everything from finding venues for publication to writing results-oriented query letters. Inexperienced writers will learn effective research skills, writing techniques, and rights and permissions acquisition and negotiation while those already working in the industry will gain more experience in working effectively with editors, expanding their publications repertoire, and most importantly, getting paid.
Part One – Time, Topics, and Resources presents options for preparing yourself and your space for your craft. The writer is given suggestions for finding topics as well as for locating venues appropriate to their articles. Various resources for writing also are addressed.
1 A Writer’s Time, Place, and Tools
2 Finding Topics and Venues for Publication
3 Journals, the Internet, and Surveys As Resources
Part Two – Getting the Job and Doing It discusses the purpose and types of writing, teaches writers about the various vocations available, and addresses the issue of communicating with a publication’s editors.
4 Purpose and Types of Writing
5 Writing Vocations
6 Communicating With the Publication’s Editors
Part Three – Writing, Submitting, and Revising leads the writer through the writing, editing, and proofreading stages while detailing specifics involved with submissions and manuscript tracking. This part also guides writers through reviews and revisions of their articles.
7 Writing, Editing, and Proofreading
8 Submissions and Manuscript Tracking
9 Reviews, Revisions, and Decisions
Part Four – Legalities, Compensation, and Help in Organizing discusses the importance of rights, permissions, and reprints, and advises the writer on payment and fee issues.
10 Contracts, Rights, Permissions, and Reprints
11 Payment and Fees
12 Help in Organizing
Finally, the writer is given suggestions on getting and staying organized, and a list of resources is provided.
Book 3, Publishing for Small Press Runs—How to Print and Market from 20 to 200 Copies of Your Book
Book 3 provides valuable and current information on publishing and printing books in short press runs using digital methods for both book covers (digital offset press) and text (digital photoreproduction), print on demand with point-of-purchase book manufacturing machines, and electronic or “virtual” publishing and distribution. Publishing for Small Press Runs teaches writers about the importance of appropriate cover design, as well as how to use publishing industry standards for registering and copyrighting their work. Authors learn how to promote books using creative and effective marketing methods to locate the appropriate markets to sell their books directly through bookstores or through online booksellers. With 22 figures and 9 tables, Publishing for Small Press Runs has sold internationally and currently is used as the course text/reference guide at five universities and for various seminars on writing and publishing.
Part One – Today’s Industry addresses the growth of independent publishing as a cost-effective and efficient means for disseminating an author’s works. It also provides insight into the pitfalls and drawbacks of private publishing.
1 The Popularity of Self-Publishing
2 Good Reasons to Self-Publish
3 Drawbacks
Part Two – Getting Started gives advice on developing an imprint and maintaining a sense of professionalism. This section also provides guidance on generating ideas and deciding what to publish, and offers suggestions on building a work environment that offers the most productivity and least distraction for both writing and publishing.
4 Imprints, Logos, and Business Entities
5 Developing a Unique Idea
6 Deciding What to Publish
7 Creating Your Writing Environment
Part Three – Preproduction Tasks provides valuable information on properly registering publications with agencies such as R.R. Bowker and the Library of Congress Copyright Office. This section also helps readers identify markets for their books while being aware of funding sources.
8 Cataloging
9 Identifying Potential Markets
Part Four – Writing and Production Work helps the author-publisher with issues such as writing and revising a book and deciding on the necessity of artwork. Technologies and a variety of processes and procedures are offered with regard to printing and binding production work.
10 Writing Your Book
11 Developing Artwork
12 Producing Your Book
13 Printing On Demand
Part Five – Marketing and Distribution gives the author-publisher insight into the inner workings of marketing. Traditional as well as more creative marketing methods are covered, as is an abundance of information on inexpensive methods for distributing books. Detailed procedures for efficiently filling orders and keeping track of financial accounts are provided, and information on how to get books into readers’ hands is included.
14 Developing Marketing Materials
15 Developing Alternative Marketing Strategies
16 Selling via Mail Order
17 Filling Orders
18 Distributing Your Book
19 Virtual Publishing
A Lot for a Little
Now for the best part. If you were to take the courses and buy the books individually, you’d have to pay $324.35. But with this special packaging offer you can have the three volumes included in The Professional Writer—Three-Book Set sent to you for only $99 plus shipping.
Bonus! What’s more, you’ll also be given free copies of the two CDs for books 2 and 3 containing all handouts for the college courses. And these handouts are only available to students in the class; they are not sold to the general public.
The Professional Writer—Three-Book Set is a natural extension of Chatgris Press’s goal of creating high quality writers, editors, and publishers turning out only the best books and articles on a variety of subjects. Read all three books in the order presented here and you’re on your way to doing what you enjoy most: Writing for a living!
Gary Michael Smith
Writer, Editor, Publisher
While all three books are available separately from your favorite bookstore, this three-book set is available only from Chatgris Press at this special price. Use the order form (13KB) on this site for this special offer. Need to think about it? Download the Chatgris Press brochure (174KB).