Shows young people how reflection and writing can help them confront their most troubling issues. Encouraging creativity in the use of poetry, prose, and organization, this booklet presents journaling as a tool with many uses. Techniques for dealing with emotions, goal setting, and self-realization are presented. The reflective process also helps the young person develop an appreciation of others and a sense sympathy toward all.Write On! will encourage your child's spiritual and emotional development while strengthening writing skills.

Write on: Journal-Keeping for Teens

Patricia L. Fry

Religion & Spirituality

Liguori Publications

The complete "How To" book of Hawaiian luaus! Everything you need to know about planning and presenting an authentic luau is detailed in this handy, user-friendly guide. Learn how to prepare a variety of Hawaiian side dishes, create festive decorations and the secret of making beautiful flower leis!

Entertaining Hawaiian Style: The How to Book of Hawaiian Luaus

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Regional & International

Island Heritage Publishing

The Mainland Luau: How to Capture the Flavor of Hawaii in Your Own Backyard

Matilija Pr

The comprehensive history of the beautiful Ojai Valley complete with profiles of early pioneers. A lovely book for anyone who knows the Ojai Valley and a genealogy for many.

The Ojai Valley: An illustrated History

History

World

Matilija Press

The first step to writing a book is writing a book proposal. A well-researched, well-written book proposal will help you to write the right book with the right focus. • You’ll find out if you have a book at all. • You’ll learn whether there is a market for this book • You’ll more accurately determine your target audience. • A book proposal is an excellent guide for writing the book. Whether you plan to self-publish (actually start your own publishing company), go with a fee-based POD publisher (which most professionals do not recommend for first-time authors) or approach a traditional royalty publisher, you really should write a book proposal FIRST. A complete book proposal is your key to potential success. You wouldn’t start a business without a business plan. A book proposal is a business plan for your book. Face it, your book is a product. The minute you decide to produce a book for sale, you’ve left creative mode and entered into the world of business. It’s now time to shift to the left brain. For now, you must move away from the artistic and concentrate on your business plan. I know you’ve heard this before and you’ve balked. You feel overwhelmed with the idea of writing a book proposal. Finally, someone has taken the intimidation out of the process. Through the easy-to-follow lessons in this book and the examples from several successful book proposals, you’ll learn how to: 1. Write a complete fiction or nonfiction book proposal. 2. Locate and approach publishers for your project. 3. Evaluate fee-based POD publishers. 4. Choose a title that will sell. 5. Build promotion into your book. 6. Target the most appropriate audience for your book. 7. Understand your competition. 8. Sell yourself more effectively in the About the Author section. 9. Organize and write your Chapter Outline. 10. Promote your book outside of bookstores. 11. Make your book signings more successful. 12. Write a more successful, marketable book. This book originated from a series of classes Patricia taught during the summer of 2004. At the end of the course, each student produced a successful book proposal. One student landed a contract with a major publisher just weeks after the course ended. Here’s what this student wrote: "The publisher said that they were overwhelmed with the detail I had given to the project and that it was these materials (the book proposal) that convinced them to acquire the book. Your class truly helped me focus on my project and sell my first book—thanks to you for helping me to be so prepared."

How to Write a Successful Book Proposal in 8 Days or Less

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Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

If you are still confused about the process of publishing, working with publishers and agents, organizing a nonfiction book, targeting your audience and developing a promotions plan, for example, this is the book you’ve been waiting for. The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book is a definitive guide to successful authorship. This book details critical information related to the publishing industry in frank terms. It includes numerous anecdotes to illustrate the processes involved in successful authorship. And it highlights the rewards and the ramifications of your publishing decisions. This book walks hopeful and experienced authors through the writing, publishing and book promotion process from start to finish and beyond. Herein, you’ll learn how to: edit your own manuscript, write with more clarity, choose the right editor to polish your finished product,locate the right publisher for your book and select the best agent for your project. This book will show you how to write query letters and book proposals, keep from making costly publishing mistakes, understand your responsibility as an author, successfully self-publish your book and tackle the business aspects of publishing. Do you want to know how to get your book into bookstores, get your book reviewed many times over, sell more books at book signings and festivals and develop a promotional plan for your book that works? Then this book is for you!! Patricia Fry has poured into this book the information and experience she has gleaned from over 30 years in this business. Not only was she involved in early publishing models, she stays up-to-date with the industry through her own current publishing projects, by guiding clients and students through the publishing maze and through the work she does on behalf of SPAWN (Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Network). Patricia frequently responds to authors’ questions through the SPAWN Web site and at writers/publishers conferences and workshops each year. She keeps her finger on the pulse of the industry by researching for and writing the monthly SPAWN Market Update—a meaty newsletter posted at the SPAWN Web site. Eight of her 24 books relate to writing/publishing and she contributes dozens of articles each year to writing/publishing magazines such as, Writer’s Digest, Authorship, PMA Independent, Absolute Write, Freelance Writer’s Report, Byline, SPAWNews, SPANnet, NAWW Newsletter and others.

The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book

This is a straightforward, informative book for hopeful and struggling authors who are still confused about the process of publishing. Whether you write fiction, nonfiction, children's books, poetry or memoirs, this book is for you. You'll learn your way around the publishing industry, how to locate and approach publishers and agents, how to write a book proposal, the process of self-publishing, the necessity and art of developing a platform, how to target your audience, how to build promotion into your novel, how to develop a marketing plan and much more.

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Books by Patricia L. Fry

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Write on: Journal-Keeping for Teens

Entertaining Hawaiian Style: The How to Book of Hawaiian Luaus

The Mainland Luau: How to Capture the Flavor of Hawaii in Your Own Backyard

The Ojai Valley: An illustrated History

How to Write a Successful Book Proposal in 8 Days or Less

The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book

The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book