The Ojai Valley: An illustrated history

History

Fry, Patricia L.

Americas

Matilija Press

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

Patricia L. Fry

World

"The Successful Writer's Handbook" features hundreds of practical tools, creative ideas, useful techniques and valuable resources for authors and publishers. Do you know how to establish yourself as a writer, overcome the pitfalls of being your own boss, avoid writer's block, and write a query letter? Have you wondered how to find good article and book ideas, how to interview high profile professionals and how to create an impressive book proposal? This book will guide you in all of the above. You'll also learn how to work with a publisher, how to find niche markets for your book and the basics of self-publishing and book marketing. One of the most popular chapters in this book is the timeline for self-publishers. If you're a writer at any stage of your passion or you're involved in publishing, this book is for you. This book is designed to read from cover to cover, but it will also become a reference guide that you'll use often throughout your writing/publishing career. 
This book is written for writers at any stage of their passion. Relish it with the author's blessings, for she has charted the course upon which you are now embarking.

The Successful Writer's Handbook

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

Reference

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

A true story of love, loss and faith. Johanna's Journey chronicles the physical journey that Johanna and the author traveled together on earth as well as the individual journeys stirring within their minds and souls. This is the story of agony and ecstacy--of dreams and of nightmares that don't always end with the light of day. McGrath demonstrates a unique and interesting technique by using inserts from Johanna's detailed and emotionally-charged journal alongside his narrative as a way to reveal their story from both perspectives. Read this book and then go hug your loved ones.

Johanna's Journey

Rick McGrath

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.

Savannah Ivey, a veterinarian out on maternity leave; her aunt Margaret, the founder of the Hammond Cat Alliance; and Colbi Stanton, a reporter for the local newspaper take on a cat colony at an old, abandoned building. Odd activity around the place makes them wonder if it actually is vacant; some believe it’s occupied by something other-worldly. When a stranger comes to town and suggests the Alliance open the old building to a fund-raiser, everyone gets involved, including Rags, Savannah’s kleptomaniac cat. He finds something that day that stirs a lot of people—both law-abiding and crooks—into action. Are the feral cats and their caretakers in serious danger? What (or who) lurks inside the old building? What secrets does it hide? And who has the key that unlocks the mystery?

The Colony Cat Caper: A Klepto Cat Mystery (Volume 5)

Literature & Fiction

Fry, Ms Patricia L

Dramas & Plays

The klepto cat opens a new bag of tricks in this fast-paced story. Rags, the kleptomaniac cat, becomes a therapy cat in a children’s reading program. A documentary film crew arrives to capture the cat in action. Savannah and Michael Ivey invite strangers into their home during a torrential rainstorm and learn that one of them has a sinister past. Someone is murdered, Savannah is stalked, Michael’s life is threatened, and Rags helps to solve an old mystery that’s had local authorities baffled for years. A fast-paced story with many twists and turns.

Celebrity Cat Caper: A Klepto Cat Mystery

Rags goes on high alert and high adventure to help nab a horse-napper. Savannah’s horse goes missing and Rags, the klepto cat, goes into mourning. Savannah and her friends spend days on horseback searching for Peaches over miles of dense wilderness. Along with a few dead-end clues, they stumble upon Elsie, a most unusual elderly woman living under dangerously primitive conditions. Elsie harbors secrets—some of which may lead to the recovery of Savannah’s horse, but only after Rags puts his claws into the matter and Detective Craig Sledge gets involved. This story is full of sweet and evil surprises, unexpected twists and turns, and plenty of action and adventure.

The Corral Cat Caper: A Klepto Cat Mystery

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The Ojai Valley: An illustrated history

The Ojai Valley: An illustrated History

The Successful Writer's Handbook

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

The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book

Johanna's Journey

The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book

The Colony Cat Caper: A Klepto Cat Mystery (Volume 5)

Celebrity Cat Caper: A Klepto Cat Mystery

The Corral Cat Caper: A Klepto Cat Mystery