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My incredible book writing journey

By Tracy Coenen

My first book, Essentials of Corporate Fraud, is not even done printing yet, and I am already starting to write my second book for John Wiley & Sons. How did I do it Well that’s all a bit of a mystery to me.

You see, the process was all so easy. There was none of this “write a book and pitch it to a publisher.” I didn’t go through the process of creating a massive book proposal and sending it to publishing companies.

The process was quite easy. I met my editor at an industry conference. We chatted for a short while and I expressed my interest in writing a book on fraud. We exchanged a few emails over the next three months, but not much came of it.

Until the day when I contacted my editor and said I was ready to get serious about writing and publishing a book. I wanted to know what I had to do in order to make it happen, because I was going to write a book and it was going to get published. It was just a matter of whether or not Wiley wanted to be my publisher. (more…)

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Full post as published by The FRAUDfiles Blog on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).