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From Self-Publishing to Random House: “Shut Up About Your Perfect Kid” Finds a Following
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Jana Riess
Last month, Random House’s Three Rivers imprint released Shut Up about Your Perfect Kid: A Survival Guide for Ordinary Parents of Special Kids by Patricia (Patty) Konjoian, whose daughter has bipolar disorder, and her sister Gina Gallagher, whose daughter has Asperger’s. Both moms wanted to write about the lighter side of raising less-than-perfect kids in…
The Top Ten Ways Authors Sabotage Their Non-Fiction Book Proposals: What Not to Do if You Want to Get Published
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Jana Riess
I got another of those book proposals recently (in my day job, Gentle Reader, I am a part-time acquisitions editor at Westminster John Knox Press). The author had spat out something half-baked, and then seemed surprised when I was critical and rejected it. As an editor, I often work with authors to improve various sections…
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