Sentences with phrase «publisher or agent»

You can do an online search for publishers or agents that will be a fit for your story.

By selecting about 12 top publishers or agents and then ranking them, authors are able to report success using half or so from that list.

Often they are contacted by a foreign publisher or agent interested in their books, but don't really understand how to follow up or what to do.

They may read the first page and that's about it, just like any other publisher or agent.

When approaching publishers or agents, you need a compelling pitch for your book in a one - page query letter.

Am I submitting to the right publisher or agent?

Authors are often too close, both literally and emotionally, to their work to see it from a reader's or buyer's (traditional publisher or agent) perspective.

Just like all the bloggers who were discovered by publishers or agents, like Julie Powell (Julie & Julia) Christian Lander (Stuff White People Like), Pamela Slim (Escape from Cubicle Nation), you will be discovered because you have attracted readers.

There were a couple of publishers or agents who fell into a somewhat «grayish» region, but there was no listing, for example, for PublishAmerica.

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 you sign up with some small press publisher or some agent «publisher» who promises to get your book into electronic print, and then pay you FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE PLUS 70 YEARS 15 % every month of everything that comes in.

Emerging Writer Membership includes additional benefits, such as low - cost web services, while Full Membership — available once you have a contract offer from an established publisher or agent, or earn significant writing income — allows writers to take advantage of contract reviews and other legal services.

The key question that many on both sides of the self - vs - traditional debate seem to ask, however, is why would an author need an ebook - only publisher or agent, when he can do it himself?

For publishers or agents trying to identify and / or copy and / or ride the coat - tails of the next hot thing, I would imagine the named - author data is also pretty damn useful.

And because I believe the pie is one hell of a lot bigger than traditional publishers or agents think it is, I will support and encourage you or anyone else who wants to give it a go and not sneer at them because they weren't traditionally published.

Amazon changed the publishing field — a great thing for so many newbie authors who didn't think a New York publisher or an agent would ever give them a moment's notice... and it's also not so good a thing.

I have lost count of the number of new authors, whom I have discovered after cursory research used to work in publishing or have close friends or relatives in publishing, either as publishers or agents.

The opportunity is there for foreign publishers to discover new voices — and potentially pick up the rights to their works for much less money than they might when working with a traditional publisher or agent.

I don't have to work through a publisher or agent or anyone else.

Now you've decided to submit your pride and joy to a publisher or agent.

A synopsis and a selected few chapters have long been used to wet the appetite of the reader, the publisher or the agent, but such online projects can now take it to the next level.

If pitching to a publisher or agent is on your agenda, being able to deliver a ready - made audience is a great point in your favor.

Remember, it's not up to your publisher or agent to build your author platform; that's your job.

This also imitates the process of a conventional publishing process, where the publisher or agent is almost always as equally interested in the author as the manuscript.

Ditto for traditionally published authors who want their publisher or agent to handle business - related issues.

It's someone who can read your freshly completed manuscript and give you feedback before you submit the story to a publisher or agent.

Maybe they tried to get a publisher or an agent.

Will a publisher or agent steal my plot from a query?

If you have finished your novel, edited and polished it, and are ready to submit to a publisher or an agent, your covering letter, synopsis and opening chapters must be up to industry standards.

Many are also discovering that a quality self - published book can still find its way to traditional publishing (if that's what you want) if it generates a sales track record and is picked up by a publisher or agent.

I'm yet to see a publisher or agent promise that.

No more letting a publisher or agent do the fighting for us.

If your plan is to seek a publisher or agent in the near future, you need to start building your platform right away.

Going back to the Shark Tank, I would say that many authors would be challenged to come up with a short description of their book idea to pitch to some publisher or agent sharks... or even to come up with a short description of their book to sell it to readers through Amazon.

The right way used to be to get a publisher or agent, and have them take care of everything for you.

You're ready to submit your manuscript to publishers or agents.

In traditional publishing, a publisher or agent submits a novel to the proper agencies and if there are any fees involved, they pay it, not the author.

Nothing could be further from the truth; that misconception is one of the reasons the publisher or agent is going to turn you down.

Now, you don't need to find a publisher or agent to get your work seen or bought, thanks to RegiMag's new manga service.

This is a great show if you are an indie author, publisher or agent.

Non-Fiction Critique: An publisher or agent will read and critique the first ten pages (or to the end of the chapter) of your non-fiction book or article.

Basic to anyone not inside of publishing, but horrid to any publisher or agent or traditionally - published writer reading this.

And writers over the last twenty years have come to expect this «take care of me» treatment and then wonder why they were dropped by their publisher or agent.