Sentences with phrase «same agent or publisher»

The easy - to - use platform offers a plethora of tools to keep the writer organized, from notes, to follow - ups to the prevention of duplicate queries to the same agent or publisher.

Not exact matches

But someone ought to remind Catherine's publisher, whether agent or legacy, that selling an ebook at almost the same price as a paperback (Kindle UK option) just looks like a rip - off.

But that's not always the same, which is why I say to check the sites for wherever you are submitting if you are going the traditional route and trying to find an agent or publisher.

Assuming an agent / publisher's vetting, continue the print career (if you have one), while attempting to negotiate for your erights, or at least a higher ebook royalty... WHILE at the same time using ebooks to get out previous work, or recent work that went nowhere with your agent but was considered salable (as with my thriller SAVAGE NIGHTS, now on Kindle and soon all the formats), and also perhaps some new work targeted for ebook format only.

If you attempt to pursue getting your work published the same way writers did ten or more years ago (querying agents and publishers), then you're almost certainly going to be frustrated and find it an exercise in futility.

Agents and most publishers want to invest in career authors who write multiple books, mostly within the same or similar genre.

If those authors have clear goals, they'll be better able to judge whether to use the same publisher for their new series, or if they want to diversify with a new genre, or whether their agent is steering them in a different direction from what they want.

Editors, authors, agents, and publishers may submit more than one book, in the same categories or different ones, but an entry fee is charged for each book entered.

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.

Admittedly, fewer people are being published at the moment in the same way as fewer houses or automobiles are being sold but that doesn't mean that the days of agents and publishers» editors are numbered.

-- If you want to be a writer or an author, — If you intend to submit manuscripts to agents and / or publishers, — If you intend to self - publish a book, the answer is still the same.

The point is this: whether you choose to query literary agents or to publish through Amazon, et.al., you and the big mainstream publishers share the very same goal: to sell lots of books to lots of strangers.

In fact, traditional published authors who follow that route to publication also find it almost impossible to find an agent or publisher if they aren't doing the same thing that successful indie authors have been doing for years --- building a social networking author's platform.

First, ask yourself if you want to risk being aligned with this particular agency / agent forever because, whether you realize it or not, agents are starting to demand the same sort of long - term contracts that many publishers are.

As an author, self - published or otherwise, you'll have to do the same thing — grow a platform to catch the attention of an agent or publisher, craft witty, shareable tweets, or helm your entire marketing strategy yourself as an indie author.

There is the issue of whether or not agents and publishers will accept a manuscript by an author who has self - published, at least if that individual intends on keeping the same name on their work.