Writing Successful Self-Help and How-To Books

A very special thanks is due to my agent, Bert Holtje, whose council and encouragement helped bring this project to light.

Thanks are also due to John Cook who helped shepherd the book through the final stages of publication.

extraordinarily patient editor, PJ Dempsey

And a final thanks to Brenda Emily Burke for services rendered.

. I’ve worked with hundreds of authors as well as ghosted more than a dozen such books for people who had important expertise they wanted to share with others.

I have spent over fifteen years as an editor specializing in self-help/how-to books.

distinguishing qualities that send self-help/how-to books straight to the top of the bestseller list

Copyright © 1997 by Jean Marie Stine
Published by John Wiley & Sons, In

Printed in the United States of America
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