Writing Local History Today guides local historians through the process of researching, writing, and publishing their work.
Mason & Calder present step-by-step advice to guide aspiring authors to a successful publication and focus not only on how to write well but also how to market and sell their work.
Thomas A. Mason and J. Kent Calder
“Writing Local History Today, by Thomas A. Mason and J. Kent Calder, is important in that it provides a comprehensive guide for a broad audience of the entire process—from researching in archives to publication. It will benefit not only the writer of today but the researcher of tomorrow.”
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“Current and comprehensive, an exceptional guide from two seasoned local history editors who deftly cover the publishing labyrinth from point of discovery and research development to online options and marketing — a new standard for preserving unexplored layers of the history around us.”