Publications

• academic press
• acknowledgments
• acquisitions editor
• adaptation
• addendum
• advance
• almanac
• annals
• annual
• anthology
• appendix
• article
• atlas
• auction
• audio book
• authorized biography
• autobiography
• backlist
• belles lettres
• biblia abiblia
• bibliobibuli
• biblioclasm
• biblioclast
• bibliogony
• bibliography
• biblioklept
• bibliomancy
• bibliomania
• bibliopegy
• bibliophagist
• bibliophile
• bibliophobia
• bibliopoesy
• bibliopole
• bibliotaph
• bibliotheca
• bimonthly biography
• biography
• biweekly
• blockbuster
• blue pencil
• blurb
• bodice ripper
• book
• book on cassette
• book producer
• booklet
• boxed set
• brand-name author
• breakout book
• broadside
• brochure
• bulletin
• catalog
• chapbook
• circular
• codex
• coffee-table book
• colophon
• comic book
• commercial fiction
• communiqu‚
• compendium
• compilation
• concordance
• cookbook
• copyediting
• copyright
• cyberpunk
• daily
• dedication
• desktop publishing
• diary
• dictionary
• digest
• directory
• e-book
• Edgar
• encyclopedia
• epic
• epilogue
• escalator
• flap copy
• flyleaf
• footnote
• foreword
• formula novel
• frontispiece
• frontlist
• gazette
• gazetteer
• genre
• ghostwriter
• glossary
• Golden Spur
• gothic horror
• gothic romance
• guidebook
• hack
• handbook
• hard SF
• hardcover
• historical romance
• hornbook
• house organ
• how-to book
• imprint
• in-house publication
• incunabula
• index
• instant book
• interactive fiction
• International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
• irregular serial
• ISBN
• journal
• lexicon
• literary agent
• literary book
• literati
• magazine
• magnum opus
• managed text
• manifest
• manual
• manuscript
• mass-market paperback
• midlist
• monograph
• monthly
• Nebula
• New Age
• newsletter
• newspaper
• Nobel Prize in literature
• notice
• novelization
• novella
• o.s.s.
• omnibus
• option
• out of print
• over the transom
• overrun
• pamphlet
• pen name
• periodical
• piracy
• plagiarism
• point of view
• police procedural
• position paper
• preface
• prequel
• primer
• proofreader
• proposal
• pseudonym
• public domain
• publicist
• Pulitzer Prize
• pulp fiction
• purple prose
• quarterly
• reference book
• regional
• remainder
• report
• reprint
• revision
• roman a clef
• roman-fleuve
• royalties
• saga
• self-help book
• self-publishing
• semimonthly
• semiweekly
• sequel
• serial
• serial rights
• SF
• sidebar
• signature
• slick
• slush pile
• small press
• space opera
• Stoker award
• stream of consciousness
• subplot
• subsidiary rights
• subtext
• sword and sorcery
• synopsis
• textbook
• thesaurus
• thriller
• tie-in
• tome
• tour de force
• tract
• trade book
• trade paperback
• treasury
• trilogy
• trim size
• unabridged
• unauthorized biography
• vanity press
• verisimilitude
• voice
• volume
• weekly
• white paper
• who's who
• whodunit
• writer's block
• YA
• yearbook
• yellow pages
• zine