Jeff's book is a first-rate, hands-on manual about how to design and build a nonfiction book proposal, showing you in step-by-step fashion and using excellent examples of proposals that sold.

Mother Nature's gift to authors, serving up Betty-Crocker-style, step-by-step guide to preparing yourself for the big time! There're dozens of highly creative tactics and strategies.

Goes best with Writer's Market and Literary Marketplace.

A style guide with punctuation, capitals and abbreviations, and includes typography, printing, and binding. In between are chapters on preparing scientific material for publication, etc.

Another great resource that details the specifics of publishing law. It needs a little updating, as it doesn't include trade dress infringement, but the rest is first rate.

Another cool Jay Conrad Levinson nuke that beautifully complements the Ross' Jump Start Your Book Sales. These books could've been written by the same author, they're so darned good!

Jodee Blanco is one of the coolest and most successful book publicists in the biz. She's spearheaded PR campaigns for more than 15 NY Times bestsellers.

Ken Rotcop, a former creative head of four different studios, and also a screenwriter and producer, sums up decades of experience, pitching ideas to Hollywood studio executives, into one small volume.

This is THE finest and funniest book about artistic creativity you'll ever read! Luke Sullivan is advertising's favorite smartass, and he shares with us some of his finest moments.

Maass shares deep insight about how to get an agent, what the agent will and won't do, how to break in with your first novel, and a lot of very useful information about the mechanics of the industry.