Please note: I do not provide referrals to
specific agents or publishers, but I can advise you on the research process.
Not exact matches
Our experienced fiction and nonfiction editors know what
agents and
publishers want and will provide a detailed, written critique of your opening, a candid assessment of whether
or not your work is ready for the marketplace, and
specific suggestions to make your opening more captivating.
An Anonymous publishing contact as basicall confirmed that
publishers are gravitating towards the the «agency» model for e-books — where the
publisher is the seller such as Barnes and Noble, Sony and Amazon is the «
agent» If there are
specific taxes to be levied in the USA
or now Canada it is up to Amazon to collect these.
What is your
specific goal I.E. to make money, raise awareness, get the attention of an
agent or publisher, sell the story to a movie
or TV studio
or something else?
The minute a
publisher,
agent or other member of the publishing industry has a
specific job
or expands the work they accept, they update their listing through our self - service system.
Maybe keep it on the one topic of fiction short story pieces for magazine, collection of 10 short stories for the
agent and for the
publisher, so the query letters are targeting something
specific and you won't have to guess what the reader might be doing — «if you are writing a proposal, write this query letter,
or if you wrote a novel, write this query letter, etc.» Just short stories, just ideas of how to phrase it, how long it should be, how much info to share, etc..»
If you can, mention in your query letter one of the
agent or publisher's current works,
or something
specific that was mentioned on their website's submission information.
Find out
specific guidelines requested by each
publisher or agent.
When you're pushing your manuscript out to traditional
publishers or agents, they will likely ask for a synopsis following a
specific format, with a
specific word count to summarize your book.
Address your letter to a
specific agent or editor at a
specific agency
or publisher.
Grants do exist, but they have rules, just like a
publisher only printing certain genres, an
agent only representing
specific kinds of books,
or a magazine preferring exact topics.