Sentences with phrase «to sell something to a publisher»

Your agent will try to «place» your book — i.e. sell it to a publisher.

(He ran the analysis on himself and determined that, yes, he should be at M.I.T.) He founded a company to market the questionnaire and eventually sold it to publisher Harcourt, Brace & World.

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.

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

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

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.

Selling it to publishers would have been impossible.

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.

With that said, even if you magically got an agent tomorrow, you've got to work with that agent to draft a proposal — which is your social proof and marketing plan that the agent will turn around and use to sell you to the publisher.

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.

Wilder wrote the autobiography in 1929 - 30, but was unable to sell it to a publisher.

It all boils down to one thing; the agent doesn't think they can sell it to publishers or readers.

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.

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.

I set up my exclusive new membership site to help you to get your books written, to sell them to publishers, AND to develop your career as an author.

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.

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

What you describe above is the work of literary agents, who assess manuscripts to see if they feel they could sell it to a publisher.

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.

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

Worse yet, even if an agent does manage to notice the glow of your talent amongst a pile of poo, there's no guarantee that he or she will be able to sell it to a publisher.

It's your uniqueness that's going to sell you to publishers and readers alike.

The old way is now called «traditional» publishing: you pitch an agent, they sell it to a publisher, and the publisher takes care of everything.