Sentences with phrase «bad book agents»

Bad book agents (pretending to be legitimate), charge reading fees.

Another example of bad book agents is someone agreeing to represent authors, then making them pay up - front for «expenses.»

Not exact matches

Good vs. Bad Communicators: A small number of agents offer representation via email but don't offer to get on the phone for a meet - and - greet... and / or you never hear from them after that until if / when they sell your book.

So one day I looked at my computer, expecting the worst, and instead saw an email from an agent who said she loved my book and wanted to represent me!

Unlike businesses that agonize about quality or value, Amazon doesn't care if your book or e-book is good or bad or if it sells for fifty bucks or zero bucks, because like stock brokers and real estate agents they get paid no matter what.

Why would an agent find this acceptable, and if he / she is putting their reputation behind any kind of book being published won't that eventually reflect badly upon his / her status as an agent?

This has gotten so bad, I try to not even listen when some poor sucker of a writer is telling me happily that they «got» an agent and are rewriting their book.

The worst thing about using a print (book form) literary agent list is that the information is 6 months old (at least) by the time you get it.

We don't all have time to wait a year for a book to reach the shelf, nor do we all want to wait to get screwed by bad agents, bad marketers, or evil publishing houses.

I've seen friends literally lose control of their books because an inexperienced agent made a bad publishing deal with a new publisher who went out of business right after the book released.

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If a self - published book sells 5,000 copies in its first six months, an agent or publisher is not going to let first rights issues stand in their way (always assuming that the book is well - written [I've known self - pubbed authors who've managed to sell large numbers of really pretty bad books] and the sales suggest a market that could be tapped, rather than one that has been exhausted, as with some niche products).

By making sure the agents you approach are the right fits for your work, you'll be saving yourself a lot of time, rejection, or worse — acceptance by someone who doesn't really know how to market your book.

* Top literary agents have the ability to navigate any challenges that come up during the pre-publication, publication, or post-publication process without losing their cool or damaging relationships: i.e. editors that are difficult, fired, laid - off, or decide to retire; bad book cover designers; your book being cut from the publisher's list before it's even published; bad reviews or publicity; poor book sales; changes in the industry or marketplace; etc..

Click here to learn about bad literary agents in our Guide to Finding the Best Book Agent.

Worse, authors are social networking to connect with book designers, literary agents, publishers, and others in the book publishing industry to move forward their book publishing project when, unfortunately, their books aren't ready for publication.

To make matters worse, I soon discovered that no one else had compiled a decent directory of book agents looking for authors, either.

Excuses I've heard from some of the bad literary agents I've met or heard stories about include: having too many clients; health, financial, or family problems; lost enthusiasm for your book (s); burnout; being in transition; etc..

This isn't technically a writing scam like some of the other things in this article (but, agents that do this are bad literary agents in my book).

And even worse, writers allow agents to have them rewrite their work to make it more of an easy - sell, thus killing any original work in the book.

The books feature homicide cops, FBI agents and criminal profilers — along with an array of «Tracers,» forensic wizards who work their magic on the evidence to help identify and track down the bad guys.

Well, that marketing problem is only made worse by waiting two years to find an agent, then two years for your actual book to get published.

And uninformed writers, sadly, will continue to flock to bad traditional contracts and low advances and scam agents and in the process they will lose all their rights to their books.

While considered by many authors to be a gatekeeper in bad cahoots with publishers, the agent, in fact, is heavily invested in his or her clients» work and is risking a great deal of time and effort on the hope that an author's book someday will be salable.

There are several things that anger agents and publishers — submissions that do not follow published guidelines; badly written, unprofessional and bland query letters; and an author's inability to tell what their book is about very cleanly and tightly... in 25 words.

You should be realistic in your requests to avoid getting in agents» bad books.

It's a story about good literary agents and bad literary agents and, more specifically, it's a story about the tireless, often intangible work that good literary agents perform for their clients during the period after the contract is signed but before the book is published.

Someone who has the attention of the reader and a trad publisher of the usual bad kind is only making ten or five percent royalties or less than five percent royalties on «discounted books», and then is paying twenty percent of that to his agent.

Peer review may be harder to satisfy; traditionally - published authors are, of course, «reviewed» by agents and editors before the book is released, but self - published works aren't necessarily seen (or screened) by professional eyes before the book is published (which is one reason why some of them are so badly written, copy - edited, and / or proofread.)