Sentences with phrase «editors and agents directly»

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Editors and agents work directly to help shape the participants» query letters, pitches, and manuscripts, and I really enjoyed this hands - on approach.

It's an extremely organized conference that allows participants to work directly with agents and editors to hone pitches and queries as well as the craft of writing.

(Everyone says you need an agent, so you are afraid to mail directly to editors for fear of them coming to your home and ripping your computer from your desk.

Getting a publishing contract means finding an agent and / or pitching your book directly to editors who accept unsolicited manuscript submissions.

So, you now have better access to editors for selling books, better access to overseas publishers, no need for agents on contracts and negotiations, and a way to get your books directly to readers when you decide that's a good way to go with a project.

This will allow for broader online critique group access, agents and editors to download manuscripts directly to an e-reader for perusal, and for authors to sell their work directly from their own websites.

Getting into traditional publishing now takes either guts to send a package to editors directly or the writer has to find an agent who loves a book and knows what they are doing.

EH: It's interesting but when I started almost 20 years ago, there weren't so many agents handling children's books, and the YA / teen market was much smaller than it is now, so there were fewer kids book agents and the author - editor relationship was forged directly, and there was a lot of intimacy in that.

Whether you are pitching to agents and editors or selling directly to readers, you need to be able to state the benefit of the book.