So you need to build your database up to a sizeable number
of publisher and agent contacts, and you need to email each contact several times with each new manuscript you have.
Most
publishers and agents want freelance writers who have creative, expressive, captivating writing styles so readers subscribe to their publications, visit their websites or read their journals.
Its role is to bridge the gap between its client base of North American publishers and authors to
foreign publishers and agents with similar genre interests on a worldwide basis.
Most audio book publishers are not open to self - published works as they prefer to receive submissions
from publishers and agents where audio rights were retained.
I saw writers out there struggling to find freelance work and getting rejected over and over again
by publishers and agents who saw no potential in their books.
While it's true that
publishers and agents do perform many invaluable tasks, the truth is they don't do anything that an author couldn't do themselves.
She handles all data base management which is crucial to our follow up work with foreign
publishers and agents so that we can report accurately to our client authors and publishers.
Books fairs are mostly
for publishers and agents, not so much readers... and even if they are readers, they aren't your target readers.
Focused exclusively on your book only, to
foreign publishers and agents, informing them of your book and encouraging them to take a look and consider acquiring rights for it.
It became easier to submit to
publishers and agents as more and more began accepting electronic submissions but, at the same time, it seemed to become even more difficult to get a foot through the door.
What I got were
publishers and agents telling me my writing was good — but didn't fit their list, or they didn't think they could sell it, or some other such thing.
The Combined Book Exhibit has been a marketing resource for
publishers and agents at U.S. and International book fairs for almost 85 years.
It seemed like a perfect fit for «A Darker Moon», that and the fact that Vagabondage Press didn't shy away from complex cross-genre story telling in the way that the main
publishers and agents seem to do.
Deciding to publish a book yourself can not only be cheaper (contacting
publishers and agents takes time, and then they take a cut of your earnings too), but can also save time and stress and give you complete control over the finished product.
For goodness sake —
many publishers and agents STILL won't accept emailed or uploaded submissions, opting for snail mail, and even one literary journal, that will go unnamed, wants 3X5 note cards with your name and title to go along with your printed manuscript.
Jody Rein, literary agent, publishing consultant and co-author of Writer Digest's How to Write a Book Proposal: Fifth Edition, knows
how publishers and agents really make decisions about whether and how to publish your book, and which factors writers in - the - know use to decide whether to self - publish or try a traditional house.
We invite you to tour our web site to learn more about us and our services to the North American publishers and authors whose books we represent and the
international publishers and agents interested in foreign rights.
But from speaking with the professionals in the UK at a recent conference, editors,
publishers and agents alike seemed pretty positive about this.