Dennis, Elizabeth
Summary: Describes the career paths available to readers who love books, including author, editor, or book designer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DENKephart, Beth
Summary: "A picture book biography of legendary children's book editor, Ursula Nordstrom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NORSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 NOVSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 WRI1 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOTTLIEB, ROBERT GOTSummary: 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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CITMaum, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 MAUFraser, 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."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Fraser 2017Bertman, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BERStapinski, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STAClaridge, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Information Today, Inc. 2019
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2 available in Reference, Call number: R 070.5 LMP VOL 1Call 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUHerman, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.5 HER1 available in Reference, Call number: R 070.5 HER
McInerney, Jay
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCIDiehl, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia, SC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.5 DIESummary: 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
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BESSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CITSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 808 POESpringer, Nancy
Summary: Enola Holmes, now independent and pursuing her profession as a scientific perditorian, joins forces with her brother Sherlock to solve the mysterious disappearance of Wolcott Balestier, a friend of Rudyard Kipling, as they uncover the ruthless world of book publishing and seek to bring him back safely.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRAdimi, Kaouther
Summary: "Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADISummary: "Want to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market 2018 guide you with thousands of publishing opportunities-- including listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, and literary agents. These listings feature contact and submission information so you can get started right away"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Writer'sEpstein, Jason.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.509 EPSGavino, Kate
Summary: "Shirin, Nina, and Silvia have just gotten their first jobs in publishing, at a University Press, a traditional publisher, and a trust-fund kid's "indie" publisher, respectively. And it's... great? They know they're paying their dues and the challenges they meet (Shirin's boss just assumes she knows Cantonese, Nina cannot get promoted by sheer force of will, and Silvia has to deal with daily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2022