Not exact matches
January 2010 I started blogging and
by the end of 2012, so we are talking a good couple of years of blogging here, I built a speaking platform for myself, I had started podcasting, I was blogging a couple times a week, good community of people and then boom, the book offer comes in from a publisher in the U.S. and I didn't
go with that initial offer but it made me think very seriously about
going back to that goal of someday writing a book and so I was introduced to a
literary agent and I obviously
went the traditional publishing route with Virtual Freedom but there's nothing wrong with the self publishing route at all.
Literary Agent Undercover was founded
by Mark Malatesta (former NY Times bestselling
literary agent), after he
went «undercover» as an book
agent for five years... to learn how to get his own books published.
Although not young enough for approval
by a
literary agent, I feel more confident
going forward than when I first published in 2014.
Rejected
by literary agents, Sheila Rodgers» self - published mysteries
went on to sell one million copies.
Numerous Golden Heart winners have
gone on to get repped
by good
literary agents, and in turn, published
by mainstream romance publishers — likely with better contract terms than S&S's boilerplate contract, which is currently riddled with rights grabs.
If you are serious about having your manuscript published, one of the best ways to
go about it is
by getting the services of a
literary agent.
American author Barry Eisler began, «This notion that we're not
going to have
literary fiction anymore...» but was cut off
by UK
literary agent Piers Blofeld, who seemed to want no more than to yell «Amazon!»
The
literary agent who
goes by the pseudonym
Agent Orange is someone whose identity I have independently verified.
Review
by: J. Ellyne on May 30, 2012: (no rating) When I finished my first novel this year, I
went looking for a
literary agent.
When I was first planning to publish The English Heart on Amazon Kindle in 2012, I was told
by people in the traditional industry that no
literary agent «will ever touch me» if I
went ahead