Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Thinking Like an Editor: Audience,
Part One: The Submission Package
Chapter 2: How to Write a Proposal
Chapter 3: Wrapping Up the Submission Package:
The Table of Contents, the Sample
Chapter, and Supporting Materials
Chapter 4: PlacingYour Manuscript with a Publisher:
To Agent or Not to Agent, and Other
Questions about the Publishing Acquisition
Chapter 5: A Question of Fairness and Other Limits
of Argument in Serious Nonfiction 141
Chapter 6: Using Narrative Tension 177
Chapter 7: From Introduction to Epilogue: Writing
Your Book Chapter by Chapter-and
What to Do WhenYou Get into Trouble 196
Part Three: From Editing to Marketing to Publi cation
Chapter 8: How to Be Published Well 223
Appendix: A Sample Proposal and Writing Sample 239
