Over at the Inverse Square Blog, Tom Levenson is doing a series of blog posts walking through the steps involved in getting a book published. Unfortunately, there isn’t a compact way to link to the whole series, but the posts to date are:
- Part 0: Introduction to the Series
- Part 1.0: The Proposal (with an example to look at)
- Part 2.0: Agents
- Part 2.5: Agents and Publishers
I’m not all the way through the publishing process for my first book yet, and my path into the whole business was sufficiently idiosyncratic that I’m not all that comfortable giving advice, but I don’t have any hesitation about recommending that you read these posts if you’re interested in looking inside the sausage factory of non-fiction publishing.
Also, the advice about agents is really good.