Month 10 — Finance issues acceptance check to
author via agent.
Not exact matches
Don't forget, EVERY
author /
agent / publisher who markets
via the US emergent brand is responsible for this culture of abuse — those who did not participate in it, stood by silently as it happened.
A prominent literary
agent recently told me that unless an
author receives a hefty advance of $ 100,000 or more most publishers will do virtually no promotion, leaving it to
authors to create and exploit their own platforms
via social media and networking connections, workshops and webcasts.
This is going to sound basic, but you'd be surprised how many
authors don't think about this simple fact: Literary
agents don't just get queries
via email.
I was looking at an
author's website the other day and the only way to contact him was
via his
agent — what sort of message is that to send out to readers?
Best way for a prospect to initiate contact — Jeff Herman's Directory of
Agents Visit our website where you can: review sample queries and proposals for works we've sold; query us
via email (24 - hour response time); subscribe to our free publishing newsletter; submit your question to our interactive «Ask the Agent» column; read articles by well - known
authors and publishing professionals; meet with us at a writers» conference where I'll be speaking.
However, as a registered
author distributing your work
via obooko, we will act as your
agent to initially notify the offending site owner and hosting provider on your behalf
via legal notification, including DMCA takedown notices.
[Translation
via Google translate:] «I talked to many
authors,» says Julie Ortolon, «and all seem to agree that it is not a good idea for
agents to become publishers.
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Nearly all fiction — for adults, YA and children — reaches a publisher
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As part of the publishing programme, the BWA's substantial network of experts,
agents and publishers (we do not work with vanity publishers and this programme will not involve self - publishing) will work with the
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via the traditional route and that's where the difference lies.
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If I had the time to write a whole lot more than I already do, then I might try some
author - publishing, but when looking at it in a risk - benefit kinda way, those three as - yet unwritten novels just HAVE to go
via my
agent,
via traditional routes of publication.
I found Booksparks
via another
author who shares not only my publishing house by my
agent, so it was a very good fit.
Until recently, most manuscripts arrived
via a literary
agent, whose decision to represent the
author was supposed to indicate quality.
Many of the published
authors I know have sought representation elsewhere, such as the US or UK, or have attracted the attention of editors
via competitions and only become
agented once they have a publisher's interest, and yet several of these have become internationally best - selling
authors — though their names continue to be barely recognised in Australia, except by devoted fans.
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agents * Live broadcasts (and audio replays) of our Radio Show with special guests, publishing industry executives, and bestselling authors such as Mary Higgins Clark, Nelson DeMille, and Diana Gabaldon * The Directory of Literary Agents with detailed information about all literary agents seeking authors * The Book Genre Dictionary with a list of all book genres and book genre definitions * The opportunity to register for 1 - on - 1 Author Coaching via phone or Skype from anywhere in the world during an introductory coaching session (there is a fee if you want to do that) * Email newsletter with insider Articles and Updates about literary
agents * Live broadcasts (and audio replays) of our Radio Show with special guests, publishing industry executives, and bestselling
authors such as Mary Higgins Clark, Nelson DeMille, and Diana Gabaldon * The Directory of Literary
Agents with detailed information about all literary agents seeking authors * The Book Genre Dictionary with a list of all book genres and book genre definitions * The opportunity to register for 1 - on - 1 Author Coaching via phone or Skype from anywhere in the world during an introductory coaching session (there is a fee if you want to do that) * Email newsletter with insider Articles and Updates about literary
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agents seeking
authors * The Book Genre Dictionary with a list of all book genres and book genre definitions * The opportunity to register for 1 - on - 1
Author Coaching
via phone or Skype from anywhere in the world during an introductory coaching session (there is a fee if you want to do that) * Email newsletter with insider Articles and Updates about literary
agentsagents
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The numbers they are receiving from their publishers /
agents are lower than the numbers reported by bookscan
via Author Central.
Indie
authors are publishing direct to their readers
via distributors such as Smashwords, and
via all the major retailers, and many are not bothering to shop their titles to
agents and publishers.
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