Teach Yourself Writing Biographies and Getting Published
Have you thought of writing your memoirs? Or what about your grandad's life? Perhaps you have researched your family history and along the way come up with some fascinating material you want to record for posterity. If you don't, it may well be lost forever.
Teach Yourself Writing Biographies and Getting Published gives lots of practical tips on turning your ideas into a book. This might be for publication or to be handed down to your family. Either way, you will enjoy yourself and produce something worthwhile.
Ina Taylor has been researching and writing biographies for over twenty years and has also lectured in this field.
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Contents
- Introduction
- Part One - Researching
- 1 Choosing your subject
- 2 Starting your research
- 3 Filing your research
- 4 Historical background
- 5 Interviews
- 6 Documentary research
- 7 Collecting illustrations
- 8 Places
- 9 Primary sources
- 10 Secondary sources
- 11 Completing your research
- Part Two - Writing
- 12 Your reader
- 13 What have you got to say about your subject?
- 14 Planning your book
- 15 Starting to write
- 16 Working on a chapter
- 17 Finding your voice
- 18 Autobiography
- 19 Sex
- 20 Bridging the gap
- 21 Can you say anything you like?
- 22 Selecting pictures and writing captions
- 23 What is in a name?
- 24 Writing for children
- 25 Organizing and writing up your family history
- 26 Introductions, acknowledgements, references and permissions
- 27 Bibliographies, appendices and index
- 28 How do you end a biography?
- Part Three - Publication
- 29 To publish or not to publish?
- 30 Biography publishing - the DIY method
- 31 Getting your manuscript ready for publication
- 32 Know your market
- 33 Sending your work in
- Useful addresses
- Index