Eisenberg's heartening voice resonates from the first words on
the acknowledgements page of this book — a hefty volume that artfully weaves description and demonstration with encouragement and empathy.
Look in
the Acknowledgement pages of books you like and are similar to your own.
You can also look in
the acknowledgements pages of books you like and are similar to your own.
I don't know of any standard place to find this information, but you can try
the acknowledgements page of the book, the author's website, searching by author on AgentQuery, or simply Googling it (comb through the results carefully, though; see below).
Check
the acknowledgements page of each book and look for the literary agent.
Other authors usually mention their agents on
the acknowledgement pages of their books.
Not exact matches
You will want separate files for the cover, title
page, copyright, table
of contents,
acknowledgements, about the author, each chapter, and any additional sections in your
book.
General parts
of a
book Cover Title
page Front Matter Copyright and legal disclaimers List
of illustrations and tables Foreward
Acknowledgements Introduction Table
of contents Chapters References Index Resources Author bio, Contact info
One
of the last items on the
book publishing «to do» list is to create the
Acknowledgement Page... the Thank Yous to the team that assisted you in creating your baby.
Some
book creation templates and tools provide placeholder title and copyright
pages,
acknowledgements, a table
of contents, and about - the - author
pages.
The name
of the publisher can be found on the spine and copyright
page of books and the agent is often thanked in the author's
acknowledgements (if they're any good!)
A traditional
book includes a table
of contents, title
page, copyright information,
acknowledgements, the dedication, preface, foreword, prologue and contact information.
According to my trusty Chicago Manual
of Style, it runs something like this, with each item given a separate
page or section: half - title
page, series title or frontispiece, title
page, copyright
page, dedication, epigraph, table
of contents (TOC), list
of illustrations, list
of tables, foreword, preface,
acknowledgements, introduction (unless it's part
of the body
of the
book).
Authors should send us their eBook manuscripts with all the text they would like included in a single file: title
page (if not using a jpeg), copyright
page, table
of contents, other
books by author, dedication and / or
acknowledgements, foreword and / or preface (if any), chapters (main document), a statement announcing end
of book and beginning
of a teaser chapter (optional), the teaser chapter
of next
book (optional), statement saying «End
of Sample Chapter» with link where readers can learn / buy
book, and author bio.
Authors should send us their manuscripts with all the text they would like included in a single file: copyright
page, other
books by author, dedication and / or
acknowledgements, table
of contents (nonfiction, if any), foreword and / or preface (if any), chapters (main document), teaser chapter
of next
book (optional), and author bio.
Ideal candidates for this are blurbs (which are often found on the
book's selling
page anyway),
acknowledgements and the «
book card» (list
of books also written by the author).
The front matter in a
book consists
of: the title
page (which includes copyright information, the ISBN number, etc.), the dedication, the epigraph, table
of contents,
acknowledgements, the foreword, the preface, the introduction, and the prologue.
Your name on an
acknowledgements page in the
book and a copy
of the hardcover edition
of Economics
of Digital Comics, signed by Todd Allen.
These include your resource box or bio
page, your dedication and
acknowledgements for a
book, a list
of resources, or bonus material you want to offer with the item you are writing.
Always read the
Acknowledgements and copyright
page — you will usually see these pros that were major assists in the creation
of the
book ID'd.
Hi this is a great post I must say; but I want to find out asides the manuscript and TOC what
of other
pages that come before the
book text itself like
acknowledgement, year
of publishing and all that.