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Dennis, Elizabeth

Summary: Describes the career paths available to readers who love books, including author, editor, or book designer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DEN

Kephart, Beth

Summary: "A picture book biography of legendary children's book editor, Ursula Nordstrom"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NOR

Summary: Citizen Kane: The story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose life is investigated by a magazine reporter trying to discover the meaning of Kane's dying word: "Rosebud".

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CIT

Summary: Lists publishers, magazines, and other markets that publish fictional works, and offers articles on how to develop one's writing skills and improve the odds of getting published.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 NOV

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Writer's Market 2019 guides you through the process of getting paid to write with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, including listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, and literary agents, as well as new playwriting and screenwriting sections. These listings feature contact and submission information to help writers get their work...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 WRI
1 available in Reference, Call number: R 808 WRI

Gottlieb, Robert

Summary: "The editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster writes with wit and candor about becoming the editor of The New Yorker, and the challenges and satisfactions of running America's preeminent magazine,"--NoveList.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOTTLIEB, ROBERT GOT

Maum, Courtney

Summary: Everything you've ever wanted to know about publishing but were too afraid to ask is right here in this funny, candid guide by acclaimed author Courtney Maum.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 MAU

Fraser, Gail R. (Gail Robin)

Summary: "Turning a humorous but insightful lens on the value of truth--within families and within a community--Pam Walker steps off the mayoral campaign trail to return to her childhood home, where she discovers that she is not alone in the world."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Fraser 2017

Bertman, Jennifer Chambliss

Summary: Twelve-year-old Emily is on the move again. Her family is relocating to San Francisco, home of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger, a game where books are hidden all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles. But Emily soon learns that Griswold has been attacked and is in a coma, and no one knows anything about the epic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BER

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BER

Contents: Volume 1. Publishers ; Editorial services & agents ; Associations, events, courses & awards ; Books & magazines for the trade ; Indexes -- Volume 2. Advertising, marketing & publicity ; Book manufacturing ; Sales & distribution ; Services & suppliers ; Indexes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Information Today, Inc. 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Reference, Call number: R 070.5 LMP VOL 1
Call number: R 070.5 LMP VOL 2

Laurain, Antoine

Summary: "When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers' room is convinced it's something special. And the committee for France's highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt, agrees. But when the shortlist is announced, there's a problem for editor Violaine Lepage: she has no idea of the author's identity. As the police begin to investigate a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallic Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAU

Herman, Jeff

Summary: Jeff Herman’s Guide is the writer’s best friend. It reveals the names, interests, and contact information of hundreds of agents and editors. It presents invaluable information about 245 publishers and imprints, lists independent book editors who can help you make your work more publisher-friendly, and helps you spot scams. Jeff Herman’s Guide unseals the truth about how to outsmart the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.5 HER
1 available in Reference, Call number: R 070.5 HER

McInerney, Jay

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "The crowning achievement from the preeminent writer of his generation: following Brightness Falls and The Good Life, Bright, Precious Things builds on a series increasingly akin to John Updike's Rabbit novels but with a long-standing if weathered couple at its heart. Russell and Corrine Calloway seem to be living the New York dream: book parties one night and high-society charity events the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCI

Stapinski, Helene

Summary: "An exuberant true-life adventure following two very different men - a loveable huckster turned publisher of DC Comics and the man he helped escape from 1930s Berlin - as they cross paths with icons of midcentury pop culture in pursuit of the American dream"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STA

Claridge, Laura P.

Summary: "Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

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Diehl, Gregory V.

Summary: Do you have something important to say? Are your knowledge and experience unique, valuable, and in demand? Do you want to write a book that changes the way people think and live? By combining his experience as an educator and entrepreneur, author Gregory V. Diehl teaches passionate thinkers how to turn unique messages into profitable books—without sacrificing royalties or creative control to a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia, SC 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.5 DIE

Summary: In the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst's media empire included 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations and 13 magazines. Nearly one in four American families read a Hearst publication. His newspapers were so influential that Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Winston Churchill all wrote for him. The first practitioner of what is now known as 'synergy,' Hearst...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIT

Bertman, Jennifer Chambliss

Summary: Mr. Quisling is definitely up to something mysterious, and Emily and James are on high alert. First, there's the coded note he drops at a book event. Then Emily and James uncover a trail of encrypted messages in books by Mark Twain hidden through Book Scavenger. What is most suspicious is that each hidden book triggers an arson.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BER

Patterson, James

Summary: "I'm Jimmy, and I've got an awesome idea to start a kids' book company -- run by kids! It'll be like an amusement park, mad scientist's laboratory, and secret club headquarters all in one. But can a kid like me really make such a big, crazy, outrageous dream come true? Listen on and find out!"--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Hazan, Éric

Summary: "Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, takes us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, more or less following the dividing line between the east and west of Paris, or what you could call the "Paris meridian." He chose this itinerary without much consideration, but later on it became clear to him that it was no accident, that this line followed the meanders of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 HAZ

Patterson, James

Summary: Imaginative middle schooler Jimmy follows his dream to start a unique book company while he is still a child.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAT

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PAT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PAT

Verdelle, A. J.

Summary: "The award-winning author of The Good Negress shares invaluable insights on the precarious journey toward creativity that is the writer's life, and tells the compelling story of her relationship with Toni Morrison, painting an illuminating portrait of this towering yet enigmatic cultural icon. With the publication of her debut novel The Good Negress in 1995, A. J. Verdelle became an overnight...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VERDELLE, A.J. VER

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B VERDELLE VER

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: In a last-ditch effort to save her father's publishing house, an ambitious young editor goes on a book tour with an author who put the publishing house on the map decades before but is now bitter, booze-addled and hasn't written a new book since.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BES

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BES

Summary: The practical handbook for aspiring poets contains more than 1,200 up-to-date entries including many new ones along with submission information, editorial requirements, interviews with successful writers, phone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses and guidance on how much to charge.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 808 POE

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