Sentences with phrase «sell it to publishers»

For example, if you were to write a book and sell it to a publisher, you would continue to receive royalties on the sales of the book for many years without any additional work.

You can still submit your book, and if an agent cares enough about the idea or story, they may edit it for free, and sell it to a publisher, and the publisher may support it and market it.

(You are afraid if you don't sign, they will come to your home and never let you write again and never sell to another publisher with more reasonable contract terms, so you sign away your work for life.

I believed whole - heartedly that if my books weren't good enough to sell to a publisher, they weren't good enough to publish.

I also met people who were sitting on five or six completed manuscripts and they had been for years — because they were trying to figure out how to hook an agent and sell them to a publisher.

Even if you're going the self - publishing route or your book has already been sold to a publisher but is still pending release, many of these activities will help you build your future readership.

Many, if not most nonfiction books are sold to publishers as book proposals.

The author is asked to guarantee that the work is actually theirs to sell, not plagiarized, stolen, or already sold to another publisher.

Going the traditional route means writing the book, finding an agent, then selling to a publisher.

If an agent is to assess whether you have potential as a writer, have something they can sell to publishers, and if you might be a good fit with their list, you'll also need to send them your stuff.

Now agents are going to start to claim ownership in a work, claim ownership in covers in packages sold to publishers, claim ownership in layout of manuscripts sent to publishers.

All three book deals were cookbooks sold to publishers in 2016.

Then you learn that even if an agent picks you up it's not uncommon for your work to take up to a year to sell to a publisher, if it ever does, and then another year to see it on shelves... all often for a payout that won't come close to replacing your day job.

Because we sell to different customers - self - published authors sell to readers while traditionally published authors sell to publishers - the two flocks are not in competition with each other.

This is partly due to a the stellar reputation of top literary agents, and the projects that they've successfully sold to publishers in the past; and it's partly due to the fact that top literary agents are both charismatic and diplomatic, excellent listeners, and succinct in their communication.

The very best locations in the store are actually sold to publishers.

Not necessarily the queries that get a request for more material, or the ones that are ultimately picked up by an agent and sold to a publisher.

When most writers talk about publishing a book, they are usually thinking about traditional publishing — getting an agent, and then having your book sold to a publisher for an advance.

I published my novel in the most standard way possible: I wrote a whole book, I sent it to literary agents and signed with one, and eventually she sold it to a publisher on my behalf.

If you have a paranormal vampire novel when every editor in town is over the trend, then it will be very difficult to sell it to a publisher, no matter how strong your self - published sales may have been.

When the series was first sold to her publisher in the early 1990s, e-readers weren't even on most consumers» radars, but Rowling thought ahead and saw the benefit in retaining the rights to the digital editions of her now hugely successful series.

Learn how to create a successful book — one that sells to publishers and to readers — by developing an AUTHOR ATTITUDE and writing a BUSINESS PLAN for a MARKETABLE BOOK.

Also, discover how to use the «proposal process» as a creative one that helps you produce a book that will sell to a publisher and to readers upon release.

If I had lucked out and got an agent for my first novel, a vampire romantic suspense, and it had sold to a publisher, and if it had sold only 3,000 copies in the first months, (i.e. being with a publisher wouldn't have led to an increase in sales due to the magic fairy pixie dust I'm told that publishers employ), I would never have published the second or third book in the series and likely would have been dropped by the publisher for publishing a «dud».

You retain all your rights, including TV, film, audio and translation, which you are free to sell to publishers or production companies.

The only reason you wouldn't own geographic rights is if you've sold them to another publisher.

The problem in the past has been that I would make more self - publishing this book; this year, my new idea is to sell it to a publisher and keep 10,000 copies for my newsletter mailing list, which will allow me the best of traditional publishing and the cash of self - publishing.

Find out what you need to do to turn out a viable book project — one that sells to publishers and to lots and lots of readers — and to become the type of writer who can be a successful author — one who produces successful books.

When the series was first sold to her publisher in the early 1990s, e-readers weren't even on most consumers» radars, but Rowling thought ahead and saw the benefit... [Read more...]

Look at how long the agency has been in business and how many books they have sold to publishers — and look at who those publishers are.

In other words, if the agency is mainly selling to publishers that do NOT require agented submissions, thing twice before going with that agency.

Most people don't know that Mark Twain self - published much of his own work, that back in the 18th and 19th century it was common, and we wouldn't even know about Tarzan or any Edgar Rice Burroughs if it wasn't for his son convincing him to self - publish his own work when he couldn't sell to publishers or magazines of the time.

Agents base their acceptance or rejection of a book on only one thing: whether they are able to sell it to a publisher and not necessarily if the writing is good or not.

Or they might think your book isn't the type of book they can sell to publishers.

I went Indie first and then, once a had a four book series with a some positive reviews, looked into selling it to a publisher.

However, before I could get that book sold to a publisher, I came up with a second book idea, called How to Blog a Book.

You submit your manuscript to an agent and they decide whether or not they can sell it to a publisher.

Remember folks, there are documented cases of authors being dropped by their publishers because they self - published works completely unrelated to what they had sold to the publisher.

Instead, she was writing it for a «book packager» (whatever that is) who then sold it to the publishers.

The rights were swiftly pre-empted at the Frankfurt Book Fair and subsequently sold to publishers in France, the Netherlands, Italy, and the States.

The thing that gets me the most about these author complaints is when they keep referring to «my book», or «author's books», without acknowledging that they don't own their books anymore when they sell them to publishers.

Head - shaking that authors sell to a publisher rights the publisher does not need.

You've written your YA novel, and either sold it to a publisher or decided to self - publish it.

I get involved with the book once it's been sold to a publisher and is — literally!

I've self - published and sold to publishers (short stories and novellas) and will gladly sign a contract that either leaves me some freedom, or that goes with a guarantee that the publisher will do some decent marketing.

Self - Published Books That Sold To Publishers In one of the first sales of its kind, John Scalzi sold Old Man's War -LSB-...]

If I can't sell it to a publisher by Christmas, I will self - publish by early 2015.

Not exact matches

Thus, while Spotify has profited handsomely from the music that its sells to its subscribers, the owners of that music (in particular, songwriters and their music publishers) have not been able to share in that success because Spotify is using their music for free,» the lawsuit said.

In essence, publishers only cared about books that had the potential to sell a lot of copies, because that's the only way they make money.

But since he joined Tumblr and began selling the platform to other publishers, it has skyrocketed.