Maybe you should write a book

Daigh, Ralph. (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0135663806 :
ISBN: 9780135663806
Physical Description: print
181 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1977.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Maybe you should write a book -- Being rich need not be bad -- How much am I bid? -- What happens when your book is published? -- Everybody makes mistakes -- A writer is a writer is a writer -- Housewives, doctors, lawyers, teachers as authors -- A tale about Ernest Hemingway -- It's a do-it-yourself business -- The very best way to submit a manuscript -- Some stuff you don't know -- A tale to stir applause and envy -- Escape with a flair / Edward S. Aarons -- A very versatile man / Isaac Asimov -- A writer and a scholar / Saul Bellow -- A very funny peg / Peg Bracken -- In a class by herself / Taylor Caldwell --I would never contemplate any other way of life / Dorothy Eden -- Answers from a Pulitzer Prize-winning housewife / Shirley Ann Grau -- Write what interests you / Donald Hamilton -- A letter from "The welcome stranger" / Jane Aiken Hodge -- The top hand with westerns / Louis L'Amour -- Tops in historical romance / Norah Lofts -- An author with a fan club / John D. MacDonald -- Once a librarian / Helen MacInnes -- The hardest-working of them all / James A. Michener -- A novelist of energy, integrity, dedication / Joyce Carol Oates -- Mr. "positive thinking" / Norman Vincent Peale --Her every novel a best-seller / Mary Stewart -- A unique formula for writing success / John Toland -- Should you write a novel or a nonfiction book?