Sentences with phrase «right agent or publisher»

The site will allow you to build a media - rich representation of yourself and your work to be matched to the right agent or publisher for review.

One third of the battle is in targeting the right agent or publisher.

[If you're a rights agent or publisher, I'd love to talk to you about opportunities!

While I don't offer hands - on assistance with finding the right agents or publishers for your work, I outline the process here.

Not exact matches

It was the famous men or the would - be famous men flexing their skills, strutting their stuff, talking of agents and publishers and rights to this or that.

If you have an agent, they could be marketing this for you «a la carte» or your publisher might have gotten your foreign rights when you sold to them.

«While writing a great book is the first step, getting it in front of the right people — be they readers or agents or traditional publishers — is also a critical part of making an indie book a success,» Edelman explained in a release on this year's presentation.

«While writing a great book is the first step, getting it in front of the right people — be they readers or agents or traditional publishers — is also a critical part of making an indie book a success.

The Big (i.e., irrelevant commercial) Publishers, the Random Houses and HarperCollinses and Simon & Schusters and Hachettes, wheeled and dealt multimillion - dollar con - tracts among themselves, though increasingly the agents were holding on to their authors» foreign rights, stalking the halls and booths like hyenas, or even, egregiously, like the upstart McTaggart, setting up their own stands with spiffy little tables and printed catalogs several inches thick handed out by demure young people, aping the publishers themselves (thPublishers, the Random Houses and HarperCollinses and Simon & Schusters and Hachettes, wheeled and dealt multimillion - dollar con - tracts among themselves, though increasingly the agents were holding on to their authors» foreign rights, stalking the halls and booths like hyenas, or even, egregiously, like the upstart McTaggart, setting up their own stands with spiffy little tables and printed catalogs several inches thick handed out by demure young people, aping the publishers themselves (thpublishers themselves (the nerve!).

There are * some * self - published authors whose books are excellent and who spent years looking for the right «fit» with an agent or publisher before they decided to take their case to the only jury that matters — the readers.

You're right, many are going to self - pub because they haven't been able to get an agent or traditional publisher.

The standard agency commission doesn't just pertain to domestic book sales, but any and all of the book's subsidiary rights sales, whether sold by the agent, author, or publisher.

If a self - published book sells 5,000 copies in its first six months, an agent or publisher is not going to let first rights issues stand in their way (always assuming that the book is well - written [I've known self - pubbed authors who've managed to sell large numbers of really pretty bad books] and the sales suggest a market that could be tapped, rather than one that has been exhausted, as with some niche products).

-- Tips, steps, resources on traditional publishing: how to find the right publisher, how to find a literary agent; how to pitch an agent or editor in person or in writing;

If you start looking for an agent or publisher right now, it can take years to find one.

And while writing a great book is the first step, getting it in front of the right people — be they readers or agents or traditional publishers — is also a critical part of making an indie book a success.

The process continued to change, right up to the point where agents and publishers are clamoring to publish titles that have already been released as ebooks or even posted on reader - centric free sites like Wattpad.

Any publishing professional with an appropriate knowledge base has the right to become an agent or publisher — one can even be both at the same time, as the brilliant Richard Curtis has proven for longer than I've been an adult.

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

Query letters are a one page - yes, that is right, one page business letter that you are sending off to an editor, agent or publisher.

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

Right now, for the book that you're hoping to sell, list the needs of your potential publishers, agents or readers that your book fulfills.

If we're traditionally published, we might have help from our agent, editor, or publisher in coming up with the right messaging for our story (or we might not).

The following are authors who have announced either signing a foreign deal, or being approached by an agent or publisher for foreign rights translations: David Dalglish, Shelley Stout, M.G. Scarsbrook, Tina Folsom, Melanie Nilles, Dawn McCullough White, Victorine Lieskie, Imogen Rose, Lucy Kevin, Margaret Lake, Terri Reid, and Beth Orsoff.

Foreign rights deals can either be done by your publisher (typically for 20 %) or by a foreign agent (10 %) working with your local agent (15 %).

Hi Jess, In general, foreign rights sales or translation rights are handled by your agent or publisher.

In traditional publishing an author's subsidiary rights were largely managed by their agent or their publisher.

Regarding film rights to your book (or translation rights, or any other rights), with a traditional publisher, your agent would negotiate these rights up front and the details would be covered in your book contract.

It's because they don't have an agent or the agent doesn't send the book to the right publisher or the publisher isn't looking for that sort of book just then.

So, whether you sell your books directly to readers or foreign publishers (there is also the option of getting a foreign rights agent; but more on that later), you need to know what works where.

Each October, the world's largest annual trade fair for books draws thousands of publishers, editors and agents from around the world, who are all attempting to buy or sell rights in books that have sold strongly in their respective home territories.

Unlike dating sites, ACX is free to use and offers authors, literary agents, and publishers (aka, rights holders, or RHs) an excellent way to connect directly with audiobook narrators and producers.

Rights Holders: If you're a Rights Holder — an author, publisher, or agent — you can use ACX to engage audiobook Producers and create your audiobook.

If your book's audio rights were bundled with the print rights (in other words, the audio rights went to the print publisher) and an audio version was never produced, check your publishing contract for a reversion clause or talk to your agent.

If you're the author and you know that you or your agent retained your audio rights when a publisher acquired print rights to your book, you may be good to go.

Am I submitting to the right publisher or agent?

I've also translated extracts from books (or entire picture books or poetry collections) for various Spanish and Latin American publishers and literary agents, who then use these samples to try and sell foreign rights.

The matter is complicated, and you may want to reserve subsidiary rights until you get an agent, or have some experience of working with the publisher.

Through years of innovation and creativity working on Indie and self - published books on a case by case basis — along with our traditionally published clients — we've helped these authors become award - winning, bestselling — or both — and many have gone on to sign with agents, publishers and even sell film rights.

The more I read about e-publishing, the more I hesitate to give up any rights to a traditional publisher (or agent).

The group's director, Orna Ross, suggests several options for translation: using a rights agents to find a foreign publisher, looking into a translation platform such as BabelCube, or finding a translator independently.

And hey, as an added bonus, if you're not trying to get picked up by an agent or publisher, you don't have to write a book proposal, right?

Agents reading this are probably laughing, as they know no publisher would let me have contract provisions regarding these points, should I sell Commonwealth or translation rights to a publisher instead of handling them myself.

Agents bring three basic experience sets to the table: Connections or contacts with publishers» editors Knowledge of writing, books, publishing, contracts, and selling subsidiary rights Ability to work with both writers and editors — to keep everything moving forward -LSB-...]

I \'ll write a winning book proposal, (many have resulted in six - figure advances for my clients) and I \'ll help you find the right literary agent to represent your book or the right publisher.»

As an agent I've either retained overseas rights or granted them to the US publisher as befits the negotiation or the project.

Whether or not you're looking for an agent or heading straight to the publisher, you need to write a book proposal that includes: information about your book, clear research on your book's target market, details about why you're the right person to write this book, and sample content.

Part of the work I do for authors is exactly this research: Which few publishers (nonfiction) or literary agents (fiction) are the right ones for this proposal or manuscript?

The agent helps shape the proposal (so that it is clear how the proposed work is different from and better than the competition) or work of fiction, finds a publisher, negotiates the contract, sells subsidiary rights to the work, intervenes when there is a controversy, whether it be over an editorial question or the publisher's promotion plans, weighs in with an opinion (e.g., the book cover), monitors the publishing process and steers the author's career, book by book.

1) Authors and Agents WILL carve ebook right out, retain them and self publish them, or else publishers will lose print rights and right now that's a big loss