Jan Yager has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is Making Your Office Work for You.
Foreign Rights and Wrongs: Selling or Buying Print or Digital Literary Rights Around the World
Summary
This practical step-by-step guide shows you everything you need to know about selling or buying foreign rights. Written by an international foreign rights expert, this useful book provides the information you need so your book can be translated or sold into additional English language markets. Aimed at authors, publishers, foreign rights managers, literary agents, and even those aspiring to enter the foreign rights field, Foreign Rights and Wrongs goes beyond just describing the do’s and don’ts of selling or buying rights by providing possible contacts, checklists, worksheets, self-quizzes, and informative examples to facilitate foreign rights success. In Dr. Jan Yager’s Foreign Rights and Wrongs: Selling or Buying Print or Digital Literary Rights Around the World, you will learn: What rights you can sell The life of a foreign book deal How to help a book “travel” better How to more effectively sell foreign rights through your publisher or literary agent How to use foreign agents or co-agents to sell foreign rights How you can sell directly to international publishers How to use major, regional, or key local book fairs to make deals happen The submission process and how to make yours stand out so you land more deals Key contract considerations How to buy rights, including potential funding sources to pay for the book's translation/publication What you need to know if you are considering a career in foreign rights Contact information and lots more! Foreign Rights and Wrongs is filled with anecdotes and examples from the author's foreign rights expertise. About the author: Beginning at 25, when she became Director of Foreign and Subsidiary Rights for Grove Press, and in the decades since then, Jan has successfully sold one of more titles into 34 languages directly to publishers or through her network of foreign co-agents.
©2018 Dr. Jan Yager (P)2019 Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc.
Creative Time Management for the New Millennium
Summary
A noted time management consultant shows how to identify goals, clarify priorities, and achieve an ideal balance among work, family, and play concerns. Creative Time Management for the New Millennium especially appeals to those who want a time management approach that offers more flexibility while still accomplishing business and personal goals. An alternative selection of the Literary Guild and a dual main selection (with Business Protocol) of the Executive Book Club, Creative Time Management helps listeners to: Clarify priorities and achieve short- and long-term goals Apply the author's seven creative time management principles to immediately improve how you handle your time Overcome such time wasters as lateness, perfectionism, and procrastination Achieve a balance among work, family, and leisure concerns And lots more
©2014 Jan Yager, Ph.D. (P)2014 Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc.
Put More Time on Your Side
Summary
Finally, a book on time management for those who say they don’t have enough time to read a book on this crucial topic. Put more time on your Side is a quick read exploring the key skills of effective time managers, including short- and long-term goal setting, prioritizing, dealing with such common time wasters as procrastination, doing too much at once, perfectionism, and even jealousy. Subtitled How to Manage your life in a Digital Age, this thought-provoking and helpful book also focuses on the way digital advances, like cell or smart phones and e-mail, have turned the workday into a 24/7 situation of information overload, and how to turn that situation around so you are more likely to achieve greater work-life balance and career success.
©2014 Jan Yager, Ph.D. (P)2014 Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc.
Making Your Office Work for You
Summary
Your office can make or break your career. It can effect how well you work and how well you feel. Making Your Office Work for You helps you create a work space that provides a sense of comfort, reduces stress, increases productivity, and makes a strong statement of who you are.
©2014, 1989 Jan Yager (P)2014 Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc.