This will help on multiple fronts: It will improve your SEO so that more potential fans are likely to visit your website, and it will
show editors and agents that you are willing to showcase your voice in a public forum.
Having an online calendar featuring your reading, signing, and other speaking engagements is a great way to
show editors and agents that you are engaged in the community and doing all you can to promote your author brand.
Not exact matches
Created by Joe Weisberg, an ex-CIA
agent of four years
and the brother of Slate Group
editor - in - chief Jacob Weisberg, «The Americans» is a meat -
and - potatoes
show whose classic conflict set - up
and intriguing explorations of moored (
and unmoored) personal identity amidst chronic, ingrained deceit win out over some occasionally soapier instincts.
Then NY
showed their hineys in regards to how they managed ebooks,
editors and agents were telling their authors not to quit their dayjobs,
and I decided I was better off in my own hands, doing the indie thing.
Fewer
editors are buying fewer titles as bookstores close
and print fades, but 1000's of potential clients are still
showing up in
agents» slush piles every week We are expendable.
If your freelance
editor attends conferences or is a member of any of these organizations, it
shows that he or she is in touch with
editors,
agents,
and writers,
and knows what the current trends are.
Integrating Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook,
and Pinterest into your website
shows literary
agents and editors that you interact with fans
and can promote your writing to a built - in, interested audience.
The popular game
show for writers returns, so step right up
and pitch your novel, screenplay, memoir or any other idea to our panel of
agents and editors.
Agents and editors are more likely to work with a writer who
shows commitment to promoting his or her work.
It
shows literary
agents,
editors,
and readers alike that you take your writing seriously.
Whether you've finished your manuscript or just have the seeds of a book idea, Publishing 101
shows you how to approach
editors and agents with your work, while avoiding the common pitfalls of first - time authorship.
He was a true dreamer,
and these panelists hope to
show you that side of him: Denis Kitchen (artist, author, publisher,
and Will Eisner's
agent and longtime friend), Scott McCloud (artist, author,
and theoretician about comics
and sequential art), Dennis O'Neil (comic book writer
and editor for Marvel Comics
and DC Comics), Paul Levitz (writer, former president / publisher, DC Comics)
and Michael Schumacher (bestselling author
and Biographer with a new biography of Will Eisner due out this fall).
Whether it's a writing group or an online forum or a mentor or even a freelance
editor, you must
show it to others before you go down the path of researching
agents and publishers.