Sentences with phrase «approaching agents and publishers»

This fear kept me from approaching agents and publishers with my work.

Compare that to a new writer approaching agents and publishers with no track record at all.

Writers, are you finished that manuscript but aren't sure how to approach agents and publishers?

You can approach an agent and publisher to help you out with self - publishing your book.

Not exact matches

About a decade ago, in 2007, book agents and publishers began approaching chef Achatz and me to gauge our interest in creating an Alinea cookbook.

We can also suggest publishers / agents to approach and the best way to do that.

You may be lucky enough to have a publisher approach you about writing your cookbook, you may choose to self - publish your cookbook, or you may send your proposal to agents and / or a publishing house, but in any case, it's recommended to focus now on writing a proposal.

It's quite true that the publishing industry is in a state of flux and it appears that the balance is shifting from the traditional agent - publisher requirement to the new writer - POD - ebook approach.

Bloomsbury, an independent publisher whose home is the UK, has a wonderful Writer's Area with articles about how to submit materials, approach a publisher, what you can expect an agent to do for you, and even lists agents from the US and UK / Ireland.

This is a huge paradigm shift for publishers, who have typically taken a business - to - business approach to sales and marketing, pitching their list to key agents within the industry supply chain; primarily sales reps who stood the best chance of getting their books sold into bookstores.

The following are authors who have announced either signing a foreign deal, or being approached by an agent or publisher for foreign rights translations: David Dalglish, Shelley Stout, M.G. Scarsbrook, Tina Folsom, Melanie Nilles, Dawn McCullough White, Victorine Lieskie, Imogen Rose, Lucy Kevin, Margaret Lake, Terri Reid, and Beth Orsoff.

Inkubate, a new approach to the slush pile, is a website that will give authors an access portal to upload any or all of their manuscripts for free with the knowledge that agents and publishers will be scouring the site's files looking for great literary content; for a fee, that is, as the agents and publishers will be charged a subscription fee to be allowed to peruse the manuscripts.

They are better at selling rights and getting publishing deals overseas — but it isn't essential to have an agent if you get approached by a publisher directly.

Weir was then approached by audiobook publisher Podium, a literary agent, print publisher Random House, and Fox Studios.

You just need to do your homework and find out if the publishers that you want to approach accept manuscripts directly from the author and without the backing of an agent.

Before you can even approach a publishing house you'll need an agent, and this query process alone can take months or years then publishers can take a further 18 months to two years before your book makes it onto bookshelves.

If this is the case then go find and agent and let them approach a big publisher.

This approach has helped me get published in 22 languages and 29 countries, a total of 111 book deals with foreign publishers, all without using a North American foreign rights agent.

Bestselling agent Andrew Lownie says there are three elements to selling books to publishers: 1) an agency needs to have saleable books in the first place; 2) the proposals need to be the best they can be; and 3) one needs to know the right editors to approach and not give up too easily.

She can help assess if you need to wait — and for how long — prior to approaching agents or publishers or prior to moving forward with your indie - publishing plans.

US e-book publishers including Rosetta Books are also approaching UK agents and authors to buy backlist e-book rights, with Rosetta favouring an exclusive Amazon deal as part of the package.

Even if you can do the work, modern approaches to publishing have made it increasingly difficult to get an agent, a publisher and an audience.