Writing Successful Self-Help and How-To Books

This book offers detailed tips and guidelines covering the entire process, from creating a proposal that gets you through the door to preparing your manuscript for publication. Successful how-to book editor and author Jean Stine provides writers with the tried-and-true strategies bestselling authors use, including identifying your audience; writing effective chapter titles, heads, and subheads; and using illustrations and charts to enhance the text.Draws on examples from actual editorial notes sent to published authorsIdeas can be used to write a self-help or how -to book on any subject, including health, home improvement, business, psychology, math, travel, and more"If you follow only a third of Jean's advice, you'll have a successful book."--Jeremy Tarcher, PublisherJEAN STINE (Waltham, Massachusetts) has edited over 50 self-help titles including such bestsellers as Women Who Love Too Much, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and Chop Wood, Carry Water. She has also authored and/or ghosted over a dozen books, including It's All in Your Head: Amazing Facts About Our Human Mind and Psychology.

JEAN MARIE STINE has edited over 50 self-help titles, including such bestsellers as Women Who Love Too Much, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and Chop Wood, Carry Water: A Guide to Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life. She has held numerous editorial positions, most recently Editor in Chief at Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc.