Sentences with phrase «agents or publishers so»

Beta reading typically falls in our editing schedule before submitting our work to agents or publishers so we can make sure our storytelling and characters are solid.

However, she lived outside of any major city in Australia and had no hope of finding an agent or publisher so she self - published with Balboa Press, which is a division of Hay House, a traditional publisher.

Not exact matches

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The universe of possible awards is immense, so you should do your research or ask for guidance from you publicist, agent or publisher.

So should an author or agent always check with their primary publisher before publishing anything else?

So do agents, editors, publishers, book reviewers, book sales people — and those all - important people who decide whether to carry your book or not: bookstore buyers.

It is so easy to finally get up one's courage to send out a query letter to an agent or a publisher, hear nothing back, and assume there's no chance to get published.

Maybe keep it on the one topic of fiction short story pieces for magazine, collection of 10 short stories for the agent and for the publisher, so the query letters are targeting something specific and you won't have to guess what the reader might be doing — «if you are writing a proposal, write this query letter, or if you wrote a novel, write this query letter, etc.» Just short stories, just ideas of how to phrase it, how long it should be, how much info to share, etc..»

Therefore, with all the best intentions, all I can really do in this article is give you as much advice as possible, so that when the illusive agent or publisher is feeling generous, your manuscript isn't passed over.

No wonder it's so hard to find an agent or publisher.

But for years he couldn't get a literary agent or publisher interested in his work, so he concluded that his childhood ambition was unrealistic and went back to computer programming.

For writers without an agent or publisher, so - called «indie» writers, Smith Publicity can be a very effective way to get their names into the public arena.

So we will have our digital publishing, or agent - assisted publishing arm called IPSO, and we will obviously promote IPSO books, but we will also promote other books by other publishers, even in print and in foreign language.

If so, learn from this Q&A with Nicole and Damir Fonovich, the co-creators of Luca Lashes, a line of multilingual children's e-books and apps, who decided to forego contacting any agents or publishers and, instead, launched the entire series themselves.

Does Writer Beware sell books or have friends that sell books on how to winnow out so - called unscupulous agents & publishers?

I'd already decided I wanted to self - publish the Lady Raven books, so I made the follow - up decision that I would also work on an all - new series that I could use to find an agent and a deal with a larger publisher, or one at least closer to home.

I can continue to write and revise, but unless I can get some other eyes on the work, my revisions will lack direction and I'll take so much longer to get anything ready for an editor, or for submission to agents or small publishers.

I'm not sharing my earnings with an agent or publisher, so this just seems fair to me.

In this instance, writers are taking the bull by the horns and, rather than rely on agents and / or publishers to get their work into the hands of the reading public, they are doing so themselves.

We (and other booksellers) have been fighting with Barnes and Noble and Amazon to require these sellers to list the books as «used but excellent» or «used but unread» or something, and that only original publishers or their authorized agents can sell books as «new» but so far no luck... There's nothing we can do about it, we've checked.

Just remember, your ultimate goal is to get the publisher or agent to request your manuscript so if something in the letter doesn't serve this purpose, then cut it out.

In the last decade or so, major publishers have abdicated — this is my word, not DeFiore's — much of the job of finding and preparing strong manuscripts to the agent corps.

Likewise, you need to have a clear idea of your target audience so that you can convince potential agents and / or publishers that your book will sell, and therefore, make you both money.

At Edit Resource, we can take feedback from a developmental editor, agent, or in - house editor and turn a book around so it meets a publisher's needs.

I don't think it fits neatly into any particular category or genre, so I think that would handicap me if I tried to find an agent / publisher.

It took me four years or so to get an agent and secure a publisher for my first book.

I think publishers are increasingly open to considering books that have proven themselves, albeit in a fairly limited market, and that's especially true today, since self publishing has become so much easier, and more writers are taking that route without even attempting to find an agent or publisher first.

It was so difficult to find a publisher or agent that wanted to take a gamble on a first - time novelist.

So you have had a positive response from an agent or publisher requesting your manuscript.

So when you encounter the NDA as an editor, agent, or publisher, you know you're dealing with someone who isn't familiar with the standards of the industry.

So, whether you sell your books directly to readers or foreign publishers (there is also the option of getting a foreign rights agent; but more on that later), you need to know what works where.

Amazon changed the publishing field — a great thing for so many newbie authors who didn't think a New York publisher or an agent would ever give them a moment's notice... and it's also not so good a thing.

So the traditional publishers, lit agents, and / or literary managers, marketing or PR agents, or authors traditionally published have NEVER paid for book reviews?

Editors trust agents to screen out unpublishable work or work that would never interest them, so when a literary agent takes a manuscript to a publisher, it will receive fair consideration.

A decade or so ago, if you wanted to be published, you would look for a literary agent who could sell your manuscript to potential publishers.

If you're writing this for an agent or publisher, remember books that didn't sell well are going to work against you with a marketing department, so you might want to leave out self - published books if your sales weren't in the thousands.

Oh and by the way, addressing the EIR (Elephant in the Room, aka Jeff Bezos, Amazon and company), when editors, agents and publishers I've worked with for years forgot to call or email me back on so many occasions, one email, eight hours later, garnered a call from the Jeff Bezos executive team to see how they might expedite my self - published cookbook when I encountered a snag.

And we'll show you how to do so without agents, contracts, or publishers.

Well, nine years later and after having contracted eight of my novels with mainstream publishers by attending writers» conferences and pitching there, I can also say that nearly all my writer friends who have gotten contracts or signed with an agent did so through pitching at a writers» conference.

So that leaves one with two choices: Either pretend there's this mythical writing business where you don't have to be effective at marketing or invest time, money, and expertise in making your book selling business go, or acknowledge that writing is a wonderful passtime, but that selling books is a retail business that requires different skills, and that these days getting read by anyone (readers, agents, publishers) involves you figuring out how to find your audience and gain visibility — AKA marketing and promoting your books.

Not all agents participate in #MSWL, so also look at book sales in your genre and see which agents sold those — either by using Publishers Marketplace or by reading the author's acknowledgments at the end of their book.

So after you have written and revised the query letter and identified your agents / publishers, send the letter via their guidelines (on all of their websites), be it in email format or postmarked.

They quickly learn not to pitch agents or traditional publishers with unproven ponies, so to speak.

I'll use those numbers for marketing articles that share my Kindle publishing successes, which will sell more books, and once I reach a certain level (probably 10K per month per book or so) I'm sure publishers and agents and international publishers will reach out to me to discuss terms.

Fear will turn to disappointment if you let it, so you, too, need to keep on moving, whether it's to an agent, a publisher, Amazon, or even (and ideally first) to an editor like me.

«Know Your Competition» by Rachelle Gardner < — Knowing and assessing books similar to yours so you're prepared to provide comps for your book to your agent and / or publisher.

Educate you on the publishing process and do so from all angles — that of an aspiring author as well as a literary agent or publisher's acquisitions editor.

It wasn't so long ago that an aspiring author would complete his or her manuscript, only to don a pair of knee pads and assume a supplicating posture in order to beg agents to beg publishers to read their work.

By selecting about 12 top publishers or agents and then ranking them, authors are able to report success using half or so from that list.

So that if the book's scale was small and / or received positive reviews, then a traditional agent / publisher wouldn't mind picking up the work since it can still make them money.