Executive Summary

• Pick a medical subject and turn it into a book
• Choose timely angles for magazine articles
• Get paid for writing medical nonfiction
• Write a successful nonfiction book proposal
• Understand when to use literary agents and how to find the right one
• Describe the way medical book publishers (medical, university, and lay presses) operate
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of using co-authors and ghost writers
• Write compelling medical nonfiction
• Improve your writing skills
• Motivate yourself to write
• Find time to write
• Be a better nonfiction writer
• Understand the option of editing a book or collaborating with a medical writer when you can't write the entire book
• Publish articles in medical trade journals and magazines
• Get PR once you are published
• Track and mail magazine/book submissions
• Negotiate a favorable writing contract
• Understand and explain the publication process from proposal to publication to royalties
• Publish on the Internet
• Explain the business of medical nonfiction: sales, royalties, marketing
• Recognize the skills to develop beyond your MD degree
• Explain the ten common writers' blunders and how to avoid them
  
  "Writing is probably about five percent talent and ninety-five percent hard work. And I think most people have got five percent talent."

  (Joan Riley in Backtalk)

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Faculty

Julie K. Silver, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and is the Medical Director of one of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital's outpatient centers. Dr. Silver has written/edited several books including Essentials of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and The Business of Medicine (Hanley & Belfus, Inc., www.hanleyandbelfus.com) and Post Polio Syndrome: A Guide for Polio Survivors and Their Families (Yale University Press, www.yale.edu/yup/books/088078). Dr. Silver also has extensive experience in writing for local and national publications as well as peer-reviewed medical journals. She is a regular columnist for the magazine Unique Opportunities (www.uoworks.com), and she frequently speaks professionally on medical practice management and business related topics.

Jean E. Thomson Black is the Senior Acquisitions Editor for Science and Medicine at Yale University Press, where she has, since 1990, developed a very active program of trade, scholarly, professional, reference, and course books, including many prize-winning and best-selling titles. Educated at Wellesley College, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Rutgers University, Ms. Thomson Black embarked on a career in publishing in 1977 at Academic Press New York, where she acquired books in the life and biomedical sciences and supervised various journals and serial publications. Ms. Thomson Black lives in Darien, Connecticut.

Regina Brooks is the founder of Serendipity Literary Agency LLC, a boutique agency representing a diverse base of award-winning clients in the areas of adult fiction and nonfiction, young adult, and children's literature. She is a 9-year veteran in the publishing industry and has held management positions in editorial and sales/marketing. Before forming her own company, Brooks was the youngest and first African-American Editor to work in the college division at John Wiley & Sons Inc., a leading non-fiction publisher. After her Wiley years, she took on an executive editorial role at McGraw-Hill and in just one year developed strategic alliances with IBM, Cisco Systems, and Nortel Networks.