Sentences with phrase «editor at a traditional publishing house»

If your self - published book has editors at traditional publishing houses nosing around for potential acquisitions, it may be time to hire a literary agent.

Your book project will be listed on our website, to be browsed by potential representatives and editors at traditional publishing houses big and small.

Not exact matches

In traditional publishing, often your editor will ask other authors at the publishing house to read and endorse your book.

We maintain a roster of highly credible reviewers — critics who have had their work published in high profile publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune; editors at respected traditional publishing houses.

A simplistic description of the long road is that it's the traditional route where your book has to pass muster with first an agent and then an editor at a publishing house.

If you want your book to be published by a traditional publishing house, it is much, much harder to get an editor to look at your book proposal or manuscript if you don't have an agent.

If you're being published by a traditional publishing house, there are many people — from editors to sales representatives to marketing managers to publicists to even book buyers at the major booksellers — who will weigh in on the consumer appeal and effectiveness of your book's title.

Traditional publishing houses send each book to at least 3 editors, and each editor usually looks at it more than once.

Today's editors and literary agents at traditional publishing houses wouldn't dare scoff at an author because he or she decided to self - publish (self - published authors keep proving how great they are!).

Books that have gone through the traditional publishing process with an agent, editor, and publishing house, are rarely listed as free, but are sometimes offered at a discounted price for a limited time.

Now he's going to Penguin as an executive editor, and because his imprint was the only literary fiction home at Amazon's publishing house, it creates a vacuum the reflects the tension between Amazon the publisher and (other) traditional publishers, between commercial fiction and literary fiction, and between Amazon and authors.

I know this is partly because I've been a professional editor and worked at a traditional publishing house, so to me, reading amateur writing feels like work.