The 12-Hour Author: Everything You Need to Know to Get Published and Become a Successful Writer [Hardcover]

Are you interested in getting published and earning money as a writer?

Whether your focus is books or articles, there are all manner of tricks of the trade that most writers have to learn the hard way, on their own, through trial and errorif they learn them at all. From how to write a book proposal to pitching to editors, from great openings to how to get paid and read contracts, the logistics of how to be a writer are rarely taught, even in creative writing programs and in how-to-write books.The 12-Hour Authorlifts the veil and invites the reader in on the secrets of successful writers, both from the angle of how to write well, but alsoand almost uniquely among books on the subjectthe practical elements of how to work as a writer.

The author is a Pulitzer nominee who has published more than twenty books, including international best-sellers, and hundreds of articles for major publications, includingThe GuardianandThe Washington Post. Divided into 12 chapters, if youre willing to commit as little as 12 hours to learning this craft, youll have all the tools youll need.

A widely-published author shares the knowledge and tools you need to become a
successful author.
The 12-Hour Author lifts the veil and invites the reader in on the secrets of successful writers, both from the angle of how to write well, but also-and almost uniquely among books on the subject-the practical elements of how to work as a writer.

Noah Charney, PhDis the internationally best-selling author of more than twenty books, translated into fourteen languages, includingThe Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art,which was nominated for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, andMuseum of Lost Art,which was the finalist for the 2018 Digital Book WorldAward. He is a professor of art history specializing in art crime, but has taught writing for University of Ljubljana, American University of Rome, and for tlsœ