Writing, Journaling, Publishing

Lauded by new and veteran writers, publishing professionals, and critics alike, this is the authoritative guide for getting writing read, represented, and published. Jeff Herman, a highly successful literary agent, cuts through confusion and unlocks the doors that often seem locked.

About The Secret Life of Equations:
"Photographs, illustrations, and other visuals help maintain reader interest. There are also a number of cross-references that allow readers to move quickly between related ideas. This highly recommended book closes with a short, but complete, index."

The new introduction and afterword bring fresh relevance to this insightful rumination on the act of reading--as a path to critical thinking, individual and political identity, civic engagement, and resistance.

When theNew York Timescalled Ursula K. Le Guin, Americas greatest living science fiction writer, they just might have undersold her legacy. Its hard to look at her vast body of worknovels and stories across multiple genres, poems, translations, essays, speeches, and criticismand see anything but one of our greatest writers, period.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.Charles Bukowski