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On the other hand, there are many talented writers and bloggers who are languishing over book proposals and waiting for months to hear back from editors and agents who have inboxes flooded with projects they hardly have time to review.

For me, self - publishing was an effort to escape the narrowness of commercial fiction, the poobahs and gate - keepers of publishing (editors and agents who have acted in concert for years to destroy fine literary fiction and promote crap... which pays a lot more).

One critically important hashtag for author research purposes is: #mswl This is short for «manuscript wishlist» and it's the hashtag used by editors and agents who are trawling for particular types of manuscripts.

When you are preparing to submit to publishers we recommend you join www.writing.ie as an Emerging Writer Member (only $ 35 per year)-- this gives you a webpage to link to in your submissions, it demonstrates how serious you are about writing and it gives you exposure to the editors and agents who regularly visit the site.

Would - be authors — especially first - timers — may also be turned off by getting caught in the clutches of editors and agents who can intimidate them into walking gingerly with hat in hand so as not to upset the plantation owners and overseers.

Kathleen is an award - winning editor and agent who has been working in the publishing business since 1979 — first as an editor at W.W. Norton where she published DEAR AMERICA: Letters Home From Vietnam, which became an Emmy award - winning documentary, then as a senior editor at Poseidon, formerly a division of Simon & Schuster, where she published and edited Mary Gaitskill and Ursula Hegi.

Not exact matches

One can also watch the genesis and development of her work as she related its progress to her friends, who included not only her literary agent and editors, but also people whom she never met face - to - face.

Gus Hall, general secretary of the Communist Party in the U.S., died at age ninety, and Victor Navasky, editor of The Nation, memorializes him on the op - ed page of the New York Times by attacking J. Edgar Hoover, who believed that Hall was an agent of the Soviet Union, which he was.

Special thanks to: Mary Jane Wilan, who kept it all together; Scott Mendel, agent extraordinaire; Marisa Bulzone, top - notch editor; Dr. BBQ, Ray Lampe, who's been doing similar things; Harald Zoschke, with daily support from Germany; and Wayne Scheiner for his tech help.

Many of the agents and editors who gave me feedback had just read a few pages.

More important, agents spend enormous amounts of time making and cultivating trusting relationships with editors, so they know just who would be most interested in a particular type of work.

Danielle Lazarin, who won Glimmer Train's Fall 2013 Family Matters Contest says, «When I won, and in the time since, I've received emails from multiple agents and editors, and they've all come via the contest win.»

In the traditional publishing world, agents and editors sing the praises of authors who meet deadlines.

Winning the Debut Dagger doesn't guarantee publication, but the contest's organizers send out the shortlisted titles to any agents and editors who want a look at them.

Dystel & Goderich Literary Management was founded in 1994 by Jane Dystel, who has been a respected figure in publishing for over 30 years — first as an editor, then as a publisher, and finally as a savvy and successful agent.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I often receive questions from writers who are looking to hire an independent editor to polish their manuscripts, either for self - publication or for submission to agents and publishers, and want to know w... -LSB-...]

This session, taught by a literary agent who represents (and adores) speculative fiction, will share helpful tips on how write great SF / F, how to set your work apart from other submissions, how to make your unique world come to life, and how to effectively pitch your sci - fi and fantasy to literary agents and editors.

Depending on what your publisher has planned for your book (which an editor often shares with you and your agent 6 months to a year before your book launches), and depending on your budget, a freelance publicist (who usually works on fewer books at any time than an in - house publicist) can supplement or enhance what your in - house publicist will be doing.

Looking at it from the viewpoint of someone who self - publishes, there are no gatekeepers, agents and copy editors» etcetera to lean on, nor any to take what you have written off your hands and hopefully turn it into a winner.

Maybe there are some agents and editors who tell us it's important.

A resource to return to with each new novel, remembering what it is that keeps agents, editors and, most importantly, readers who trust you with their time and money, reading past page one.

My other consistent experience is that agents give up on submissions after 1 - 4 rejections, balking at sending a project anywhere else after their first few guesses proved wrong; even though making a sale is a case of finding the editor who loves the book, and — gosh, go figure!

The term first came from fan fiction, and it means a person who reads your work - in - progress (or «WIP») when you, the writer or «alpha,» are ready for feedback — before it goes into final draft to be sent to your fanfic page, editor, or agent.

But lately, a lot of self published authors are answering calls from agents and editors who want them to consider a traditional publishing deal.

I can see it already: a publishing culture in which the large publishing houses don't even bother to employ editors who communicate with agents and go through the slush pile.

Bizarrely, 3 of my 4 agents also balked at sending my work to editors who had specifically told — me - they wanted to see it (and who usually did indeed make me offers when I sent the work there myself).

Profiles of small publishers or agents who are interested in your genre (take them from websites — you don't have to bother the agents and editors)

So do agents, editors, publishers, book reviewers, book sales people — and those all - important people who decide whether to carry your book or not: bookstore buyers.

We have to find the agent and / or the editor who loves our work enough to champion it.

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

How do literary agents who blog, tweet and carouse online find the time to do the real work of agenting: reading, hobnobbing with editors, reading some more and making great book deals for their clients?

Each year, hundreds of veteran authors and those just learning the craft of Christian fiction gather in a setting like this to hear skilled instructors, inspiring keynoters... to gain from the insights of industry professionals... to interact with other writers... and to present their ideas to agents and editors looking for stories like theirs, or to mentors who can help them move forward in their writing career.If you write Christian fiction — or want to learn how — the ACFW conference is an investment worth making.

My two favorites are Writer's Digest Guide to Literary Agents (the 2016 issue is now available) and Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents: Who They Are, What They Want, How to Win Them Over.

Hell's bells, if we have to make sure we send an edited manuscript to our agents and editors before they «edit» it — and yes, there are a number of authors who pay freelance editors to go over their work before submitting it because they know there will be no real editing done by their editors at certain legacy publishers — and we have to do our own marketing and promotion and do it on our own dime, why are we giving legacy publishers the majority of money earned by our hard work?

With most agents, editors and publishers expecting new authors to have an already established author's platform, it simply makes more sense to build that platform with real readers who enjoy your stuff before considering the traditional publishing route.

And, at the same time, you just might attract the attention of an agent or an editor who loves that you already have a built - in audience for your message.

One editor at a major publishing house, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity for fear of employer sanctions, told me that agents of Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Target are frequent participants in meetings about potential books.

In this process over the next five to ten years, the slush pile will almost vanish as we know it now and editors will go mostly to solicited novels, either from agents who have published their clients work or from indie publishers.

A New York literary agent can spend more time with editors and publishers at major New York publishing houses (the people who buy most books).

Sometimes it's enough to make you pull out your hair, especially when you find an agent (or publisher or editor) who represents what you write and is looking to build his or her list.

For authors who go with a traditional publisher, the publisher does the editing, so this guest post is about whether there's value in paying someone to edit before submitting to the traditional publishing industry (agents and editors).

• Wrote the first version in 2004, found an agent who represented it, book went to acquisition at a BIG 6 publisher because editor loved it, week before acquisition meeting editor leaves and heads to another company.

I also heard stories from authors who self - published their cookbooks and didn't have an agent or acquisitions editor to answer their questions.

But the longer that direct submission system forces the really unwashed new writers to agents who are failing, the more editors and publishers will look into the indie published books for possible purchases.

Of finding a literary agent and a book editor editor and a publisher who not only want your book but also believe in it.

Author background: (1 to 2 pages) In this section, you tell the agent or editor who you are and why you are the best person to write this book.

And finally, there were stories from aspiring authors who were at the beginning stages of their writing project and had yet to develop a relationship with either an agent or an editAnd finally, there were stories from aspiring authors who were at the beginning stages of their writing project and had yet to develop a relationship with either an agent or an editand had yet to develop a relationship with either an agent or an editor.

You'll meet all kinds of people at a writers» conference who can help you get to the next step on your writing journey — including fellow writers, freelance editors, agents, and representatives from magazine and book publishers.

However, if you keep sending those queries out, and your writing is terrific, one day your query will land on the desk of some agent / editor who will say, «WOW!

Some agents worked with writers for Hollywood and some agents worked with a few writers to deliver manuscripts to New York editors for writers who lived outside of New York.