Sentences with phrase «acquired by their publishing house»

Marketing directors started to have a say in what is being acquired by their publishing house, predicting what would sell and what wouldn't.

Not exact matches

I really never thought it would get published, let alone acquired by this major publishing house, and I was literally speechless when I got an email confirming their interest in acquiring Strays for the Aladdin Books imprint.

-LSB-...] A Literary Agent According to publishing expert Jane Friedman about 80 % of books acquired by New York publishing houses such as HarperCollins and Penguin are -LSB-...]

DEVELOPMENTAL EDIT - Comprehensive line edit of your manuscript by current or former acquiring editors at Big 5 publishing houses, along with a 7 - page memo.

Get written feedback by current or former acquiring editors from Big 5 publishing houses.

Some publishers got into the self - publishing game by acquiring other companies and not developing their own in - house solution.

This agreement comes on the heels of the announcement last month by The Random House Group that the Bond backlist was returning to its publishing roots in the UK, with Vintage Books (sister imprint of Jonathan Cape, the original publisher of Casino Royale) acquiring a ten - year license for exclusive rights to the Bond novels in the English language with the exception of North America.

The truth is this: although first drafts will be much better after they are professionally edited, nine out of ten (or ten out of ten) of those manuscripts will remain unpublishable if they have been «edited» in a vacuum by professionals who have never acquired a manuscript at a Big Five publishing house; never negotiated an author / agent book contract; and never published, marketed and sold a finished book.

For most trade publishing houses, the «development» of a manuscript is handled by the acquiring editor him - or herself.

That's where you can potentially have your book published / acquired by a Traditional Publishing House.

The final round of the contest is judged by acquiring editors from romance publishing houses.

In today's market, probably 80 percent of books that the New York publishing houses acquire are sold to them by agents.

And through the submissions site, Page - Fort says, «we've discovered and acquired one of Greece's bestselling contemporary writers, Lena Manta, and will publish her standout hit The House by the River in 2017.