We have a proven track record of helping authors get their novels into great shape
for submission to publishers and self - publishing platforms.
Top literary agents make
simultaneous submissions to publishers with well - planned and well - coordinated «attacks» that cause excitement, create maximum leverage, start bidding wars, and get the best terms for their authors.
A number of novel - length manuscripts have come across my desk for evaluation and editing in the past decade, most from aspiring writers yearning to have their works readied
for submission to publishers.
I ended my last Publishing Journey post about going
on submission to publishers on an annoying cliffhanger, in part because the post was getting a bit long, but also because I wanted this post, about selling the book, to be the last one before the book comes out in the US.
King was writing short stories for his school classmates, then for publication in the pulps, then for
submission to publishers — all the time writing in uncomfortable makeshift spaces (he's tall and the desks he used were not).
The weather is gorgeous here in DC,
submissions to publishers are in full swing, and the spring publishing season is chockfull of wonderful books.
Limit
your submissions to publishers that are able to get their books into bookstores and libraries (this is easy: just check the shelves).
I can guarantee it because I regularly hear from people boasting of having had their manuscript «professionally assessed» or «professionally edited», whose work is nowhere near ready for
submission to publishers.
Whether you're preparing your manuscript for
submission to a publisher or agent, or self publishing, it's a step that should never be missed.
Allyson's input was extremely helpful in developing my novel for
submission to publishers.
I worked very hard on my book and now that it's ready for
submission to a publisher I hunted all over and I really feel like smashwords is the only distributor that has their author's best interest in mind.
At the same time, I believe that authors, as practising professional advisers themselves, are unlikely to divulge all their secrets, strategies and carefully honed contracts, pleadings and precedents in
any submissions to their publishers.