a few scantily-clad Bond babes. This scene has nothing to do with the movie. Your new novel prologue, however, should have something to do with the rest of your novel. All that’ s required is that it gets things flowing fast.
What makes this work?
The three keys to making the most use of this tip: actually update the copy or add new content, actually update the copyright date, and be sure to put some on-the-cover notice that this book has been updated for 2018, or 2019, or … you get the picture. I strongly recommend, if you’ ve got a track record of sales which also includes a lot of favorable reviews, that you not change the ISBN number. However, if you want your book to make a fresh start( and perhaps to lose some of those painful old Troll-generated reviews) – or especially if you want to re-launch the book with all the attendant book-launch publicity, promotion and marketing – by all means, go ahead and get a new ISBN number
Some other examples
Beyond Katie’ s book, noted above, several of my favorite reference books have been issued in multiple editions. For example, David Meerman Scott’ s superb The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly has, remarkably, been a New York Times Business Best-Seller in each of its six editions, selling in the neighborhood of 400,000 copies in 29 languages.
Another favorite is Jody Rein’ s and Michael Larsen’ s ground-breaking How to Write a Book Proposal: The Insider ' s Stepby-Step Guide to Proposals that Get You Published which is now available in its fifth edition.
Then comes the ultimate writer’ s reference book – The Elements of Style, the one reference book that absolutely every writer needs on his or her bookshelf. Since I first discovered this gem while studying journalism in college a zillion years ago, I’ ve bought at least a dozen copies. I’ ve bought so many because I tend to give copies away to writing friends and clients – then, when I realize I’ ve given away my last copy, I have to rush out and buy another copy – or, usually, several, to make sure I don’ t run out again. Yes, it’ s really that good. Originally written by William Strunk in 1918 – that’ s a hundred years ago, folks – it was published by Harcourt two years later, in 1920. Thirty-nine years later, the original Elements of Style was updated and republished for new generations of writers by the acclaimed author E. B. White. White’ s collaboration was published by McMillan in 1959 as Strunk and White’ s Elements of Style. The offspring of that classic and collectable Strunk & White First Edition survived in print for 52 years, going through at least five editions that I’ ve been able to find.
In 2011, Time Magazine named Strunk & White’ s Elements of Style as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923, the year Henry Luce first published Time.
Recently, this authentic classic has been dramatically updated and re-issued( again) as Elements of Style 2017, revised and enhanced by the widely-published grammarian and novelist Richard De A’ Morelli. De
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