Sentences with phrase «bad publishing agents»

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Did you know that many authors, literary agents, and other publishing professionals give bad advice about how to write agent queries?

Why would an agent find this acceptable, and if he / she is putting their reputation behind any kind of book being published won't that eventually reflect badly upon his / her status as an agent?

We don't all have time to wait a year for a book to reach the shelf, nor do we all want to wait to get screwed by bad agents, bad marketers, or evil publishing houses.

I've seen friends literally lose control of their books because an inexperienced agent made a bad publishing deal with a new publisher who went out of business right after the book released.

Literary Agent Query Letter — Did you know that many authors, literary agents, and other publishing professionals give bad advice about how to write a query letter?

If a self - published book sells 5,000 copies in its first six months, an agent or publisher is not going to let first rights issues stand in their way (always assuming that the book is well - written [I've known self - pubbed authors who've managed to sell large numbers of really pretty bad books] and the sales suggest a market that could be tapped, rather than one that has been exhausted, as with some niche products).

* Top literary agents have the ability to navigate any challenges that come up during the pre-publication, publication, or post-publication process without losing their cool or damaging relationships: i.e. editors that are difficult, fired, laid - off, or decide to retire; bad book cover designers; your book being cut from the publisher's list before it's even published; bad reviews or publicity; poor book sales; changes in the industry or marketplace; etc..

The horror stories of bad treatment by agents is well documented in the comments of Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing, but I don't think we can even imagine the explosion in numbers of scams and writers getting taken by agents.

Worse, authors are social networking to connect with book designers, literary agents, publishers, and others in the book publishing industry to move forward their book publishing project when, unfortunately, their books aren't ready for publication.

Publishing agents don't want to get hate mail or have you posting bad things about them on in the internet

The truth is there are a whole lot of things to be afraid of out there in the publishing world: bad contracts, fee - charging agents, vanity publishers that masquerade as publishers — but this isn't one of them.

Bane or boon, if you're a writer, get your manuscript to beta readers — before you send it to agents, editors, publishers or - worst of all — publish it yourself.

They give the publishing over to someone to do for a percentage or worse to an agent.

I guess I think there are plenty of valid and legitimate reasons to go with a small press or try the agent route, that there is no need to denigrate self publishing as «what bad writers» do.

Well, that marketing problem is only made worse by waiting two years to find an agent, then two years for your actual book to get published.

There are several things that anger agents and publishers — submissions that do not follow published guidelines; badly written, unprofessional and bland query letters; and an author's inability to tell what their book is about very cleanly and tightly... in 25 words.

They might squeeze the author's percentage, but authors could self - publish when the deal gets bad enough and if an agent's involved that'll probably not happen.

It's a story about good literary agents and bad literary agents and, more specifically, it's a story about the tireless, often intangible work that good literary agents perform for their clients during the period after the contract is signed but before the book is published.

For better or worse, I am not jumping on that bandwagon in terms of setting up my own self publishing arm, so if that's a direction you do want to explore off the bat, do ask an agent about it.

Peer review may be harder to satisfy; traditionally - published authors are, of course, «reviewed» by agents and editors before the book is released, but self - published works aren't necessarily seen (or screened) by professional eyes before the book is published (which is one reason why some of them are so badly written, copy - edited, and / or proofread.)

From agents to bad contracts to bad editing, traditional publishing isn't a path I would suggest until things level out.

In the bad old days very few authors got an agent and got published on their first or even second manuscript.