Sentences with phrase «to sell the book to publishers»

The best way for me to illustrate this point is to show you how top literary agents sell books to publishers... because that's the process you need to model.

Selling scripts to producers is completely different from selling books to publishers; success and contacts in one field doesn't imply success and contacts in the other.

Pay a professional, or sell your book to a publisher who employs professional editors.

Real agents sell your books to publishers that pay you advances and royalties.

In fact I do not know anything about keeping editors from inserting scenes after selling the book to the Publishers.

Besides selling the books to publishers who have the option, it is also our hope that RCW can fill in some of the remaining blanks on the map.

Beyond that, it's harder to get an agent than to get a publisher; they are in business, a hard one, to find and to sell books to publishers on the promise that every man, woman, and child in America will want to read it.

Six years into my writing journey I was as yet unpublished when I learned an acquaintance sold a book to a publisher and it sent me spiraling into an ugly pit of jealousy and despair.

I was at the London Book Fair recently where agents sit in endless meetings trying to sell books to publishers across the world, and every day they announce exciting deals coming out of the Rights Center.

If you've just sold your book to a publisher and would like it to have a shelf life longer than cottage cheese — or you're a new publisher who would like to get those books out of your garage and into bookstores and libraries — this workshop is for you.

So... computerization and access to sales information have made the agent's job of selling a book to a publisher more challenging.

For authors ultimately seeking traditional publication, remember that what sells books to publishers is the writing, and that writing doesn't change if your agent is earning zero dollars or thousands of dollars from your work.

The best way for me to illustrate this point for you is to explain how top literary agents sell books to publishers (because that's the process you need to model).

The move was on by beginning novelists from selling a book to a publisher to trying to «get» an agent, a person who could not buy anything.

This is important to understand because the information that goes into a book proposal is the very same information that literary agents use to sell books to publishers; it's the same information that publishers use to promote books to bookstores, readers, and the media.

The best way for me to illustrate this point is to explain how top literary agents sell books to publishers (because that's the process you need to model).

Jill: Yes, we have a number of self - published authors who have sold their books to publishers and rereleased them.

Once you sign with a literary agent, he or she will try to sell your book to publishers, a process called «going on submission.»

The best agent has the chops to sell your book to a publisher — and then help you sell it again to the consumer.

But, having the desire and ability to sell your book to a publisher is the only thing that all publishing agents have in common.

In the past, some authors have just decided to forget about all the legal drama and publish the book themselves or sell the book to another publisher.

You are not assured success in traditional publishing, even if you have a great story, find yourself an agent who sells your book to a publisher and meet all those standards people talk about.

However, I have sold the book to a publisher, Bella Tulip and once it comes out I'll have a new cover design.

We know an author who was picked up right away by an agent, however, it's taken longer than anticipated to sell the book to publishers.

I went from reading them to trying to write as a hobby, to selling books to publishers, and becoming a published author.

Selling a book to a publisher is one thing.

Setting up an author platform; writing and rewriting a book; trying to sell your book to a publisher; self - publishing, promoting, and marketing your book... the list of book - related tasks is long and seemingly endless, especially for new authors.

Once you've written, edited, revised and polished your book, once you've signed with an agent, once your agent sells your book to a publisher — then you get to start another career.

It might take a year or longer to get an agent, then another couple of years to sell the book to a publisher, and get published.

Writers write books; agents sell those books to publishers; publishers make the books available to the market.

It needs to convince an agent that he can sell your book to a publisher, and it must convince a publisher that he can sell your book to readers.

Have you sold your book to a publisher?

Because once you sell your book to a publisher, you enter into a partnership, and you aren't the only one making decisions about that book anymore.

We sell books to publishers.

Bestselling agent Andrew Lownie says there are three elements to selling books to publishers: 1) an agency needs to have saleable books in the first place; 2) the proposals need to be the best they can be; and 3) one needs to know the right editors to approach and not give up too easily.