Sentences with phrase «editors and agents care»

Not exact matches

I had an agent and wonderful editors, but the truth is that no one cares about your career as much as you, and if you're not selling at the top of your game, a publisher isn't going to expend a lot of time, effort, and money helping an author raise that game.

Poor Steven Zacharius, taking to the comment sections of the indiesphere in defense of publishing using all the old arguments that used to convince all the desperate aspiring writers that publishing is a haven where agents and editors will take care of you and together you will make Culture and be Important.

Web Design Relief outlines the simple steps to create a website that will make readers, editors, and agents care about you as a writer:

Otherwise the response time on the project will be longer; the book might be submitted to the wrong person (often someone who doesn't even work there anymore); the editor will wonder what's wrong with the literary agent or the author since no one cared enough to make a real pitch; and, if you do get an offer, it will be smaller because it will probably be the only offer.

Since professional writers already depend on agents / contract lawyers (since even the best and most caring editors are still on the publisher's payroll, not the author's), and as the share of self - published books grows, it seems unavoidable that some agents and editors will merge / pool their talents to provide writers with the external services they require (accounting, editorial counsel, copy - proofing) so that authors can focus on their core trade.