Sentences with phrase «author hires an agent»

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I tell my clients to (temporarily) disregard the feedback in literary agent rejection letters, because, if I'm working with the author in a long - term program to help them get literary agents reading their work, I know their writing is at a high enough level that they should give the manuscript a chance before making radical revisions and / or hiring an editor.

And since it's so easy to self - publish today, why should an author still hire an agent?

Then came the competition from Amazon, which has entered the publishing market itself, hiring agents and editors to help it find bestselling authors.

I'm guessing that a lot of authors are not aware that even if they do not have an agent to represent them when dealing with a publishing contract they can always hire the services of an Intellectual Properties lawyer.

I often think what appears to us at TED as hurry is really only the author's lack of familiarity with the process (they may ask for copy editing when they first need line editing, for instance, or expect to be able to «hire» an agent), and that's on us.

One literary agent we met once told us she accepted a new author largely due to the beautiful cover she hired a designer to create for her self - published book.

On one hand, many agents these days urge their clients to hire an outside publicist no matter who their publisher is, claiming that without robust PR and promotion no book (or author) has a future.

Traditional publishers are also insisting more and more that a manuscript be in a more or less «finished» form when it comes in, meaning that the author and / or agent may have to hire an outside editor to polish their work.

Even at present, there are lots of self - published authors that prefer to release their books on their own, because they don't have the budget to pay the fees if they hire literary agents.

Authors should hire a proofreader or a beta reader if they want to make sure that their works are good instead of asking for help from their book agents.

Even professional authors need help in getting their books reading for publication and then marketing them, but unlike professional authors, not everyone has the budget to go out and hire an agent or a manager.

Agent Brian de Fiore insisted, as agents often do, that they should pay more in author royalties — and hire more editors — while Little, Brown Group Publisher David Shelley insisted that any savings would need to be spent fighting piracy.

The author is merely hiring his / her agent to do it instead of doing it him / herself.

As an acquisitions editor, I frequently receive manuscripts that the author or agent inform me have been professionally edited or co-authored by a hired writer.