The following information may be helpful to you as you prepare your manuscript and proposal for submission to agents:

Books:

Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents 2007
by Jeff Herman

Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 That Sold and Why 2nd Edition
by Jeff Herman and Deborah Levine Herman

How to Write a Book Proposal
by Michael Larsen

Literary Agents: What They Do, How They Do It, and How to Find and Work with the Right One for You
by Michael Larsen

Non-Fiction Book Proposals Anyone Can Write
by Elizabeth Lyon

The Chicago Manual of Style
by University of Chicago Press Staff

The Elements of Style
by William Strunk, Jr.; E.B. White; Roger Angell

On Writing Well
by William Zinsser

Web Sites:

American Booksellers Association www.bookweb.org

Association of Authors’ Representatives www.aar-online.org

Predators & Editors www.sfwa.org/prededitors

BookSense www.booksense.com

Book Wire www.bookwire.com

Literary Market Place www.literarymarketplace.com

National Writers Union www.nwu.org

Publishers Lunch www.caderbooks.com

Publishers Weekly www.publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com

U.S. Copyright Office www.copyright.gov

"Writing, like life itself,
is a voyage of discovery.

The adventure is a metaphysical one;
it is a way of approaching life indirectly,
of acquiring a total
rather than a partial view of the universe.

The writer lives
between the upper and lower worlds:
he takes the path
in order eventually to become that path himself."

- Henry Miller