Literary agents : the novelist as spy / by Masters, Anthony, 1940-2003

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Murder takes a turn by Brown, Eric, 1960-2023

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Merchants of culture : the publishing business in the twenty-first century by Thompson, John B. (John Brookshire)

Table of Contents: “…Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Introduction -- The growth of the retail chains -- The rise of literary agents -- The emergence of publishing corporations -- The polarization of the field -- Big books -- Extreme publishing -- Shrinking windows -- The wild west -- The digital revolution -- Trouble in the trade -- Conclusion: Facing an uncertain future -- Appendix 1: Selected imprints of the main publishing corporations -- Appendix 2: Note on research methods.…”


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The great pretenders by Kalpakian, Laura, 1945-

Subjects: “…Literary agents California Los Angeles Fiction.…”


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Merchants of culture : the publishing business in the twenty-first century by Thompson, John B. (John Brookshire)

Table of Contents: “…The growth of the retail chains -- The rise of literary agents -- The emergence of publishing corporations -- The polarization of the field -- Big books -- Extreme publishing -- Shrinking windows -- The wild West -- The digital revolution -- Trouble in the trade -- Conclusion: facing an uncertain future -- Appendix 1. …”


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The house of Blackwood : author-publisher relations in the Victorian era by Finkelstein, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the scene -- Finding success : Blackwood's, 1860-1879 -- Africa rewritten : the case of John Hanning Speke -- Reade revised : A woman hater and the women's medical movement -- Shifting ground : Blackwood's, 1880-1912 -- Creating house identities : nineteenth-century publishing memoirs and the Annals of a publishing house -- "A grocer's business" : William Blackwood III and the literary agents.…”


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Strange days indeed : the 1970s : the golden age of paranoia by Wheen, Francis

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Spanish chronicles of the Indies : sixteenth century by Murray, James C.

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Children's picturebooks : the art of visual storytelling by Salisbury, Martin, Styles, Morag

Table of Contents: “…The publishing process -- Approaching a publisher -- The literary agent -- Contracts and fees -- The editorial process -- The designer -- The Bologna Children's Book Fair -- Printing -- Distribution -- Sales and marketing -- Booksellers -- The reviewer -- Professional case study: The art publisher (Roger Thorpe, Thames and Hudson) -- Professional case study: Growing a publishing business (Claudia Bedrick, Enchanted Lion Books) -- Professional case study: The new 'studio publishers' (Pato Lógico, Planeta Tangerina and Magikon) -- From page to stage, screen and gallery -- Digital content -- The future.…”


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The literary Churchill : author, reader, actor by Rose, Jonathan, 1952-

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Margaret Atwood and the labour of literary celebrity by York, Lorraine Mary, 1958-

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Who paid for modernism : art, money, and the fiction of Conrad, Joyce, and Lawrence by Wexler, Joyce Piell, 1947-

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