Sentences with phrase «taste of publishing houses»

My fear is the themes and topics covered in my fantasy series wouldn't be to the taste of publishing houses.

Not exact matches

This excerpt is a taste of what you need to know to build a platform so a top New York Publishing House will consider you an author who deserves a six - figure book advance.

Get a taste of what's hot, what's not, and what's next for manga in North America and Japan from top publishing pros, including Kurt Hassler (publisher and managing director, Yen Press), Michael Gombos (director of international publishing and licensing, Dark Horse Comics), Ben Applegate (associate director, publisher services, Penguin Random House), Erik Ko (chief of operations, Udon Entertainment) and Stu Levy (TOKYOPOP).

You write in a vacuum or for a professor who frowns on genre; you workshop with other writers; you craft a query letter; you appeal to the tastes of an intern at a literary agency; you claw your way out of the slush pile; you hope to win over an editor at a major publishing house; your book comes out a year later and sits spine - out on a bookshelf for six months; it gets returned to the publisher and goes out of print; you start over.

I strongly believe your and my taste regarding the likes and dislikes of a particular book are more honest than a paid book reviewer a major publishing house contracts with to have in a book's advertising materials, and my motto is to keep it short and sweet on the likes and dislikes without providing a Cliff's Notes version of the book.