{"id":2150,"date":"2021-02-17T12:12:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2021-02-17T12:12:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:12:06","slug":"review-so-you-want-to-publish-a-book-by-anne-trubek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-so-you-want-to-publish-a-book-by-anne-trubek\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: So You Want to Publish a Book? by Anne Trubek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As someone who both writes and publishes books, I was keen to read a well-reviewed, short text aimed at people like myself. I was not disappointed. This is a clear, well-written introduction to the world of publishing, full of information that both publishers and authors need to know. Anne Trubek is both, and writes from experience.  I learned much more about book distributors, the system of returns, and galleys than I thought possible. The bottom line &#8211; for an author &#8211; seems to be this: Read lots of books. Write the best one you can. Get the biggest advance you can from your publisher &#8211; because that may be the only money you will ever see from your book. And finally, pray for sales. Nothing else seems to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who both writes and publishes books, I was keen to read a well-reviewed, short text aimed at people like myself. I was not disappointed. This is a clear, well-written introduction to the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}