As someone
who works in the publishing industry, the only thing that surprised me when publishing my own book was how challenging I found it.
People working in the publishing industry get hundreds of queries a day, and they need to find a firm, polite way to dismiss amateur book projects without being mean.
Indeed, people write in larger numbers than were ever accepted by publishers, as I saw when
working in publishing in the late 80s / early 90s.
After reading thousands of hard print books and hundreds of ebooks, I finally realized the amount
of work in publishing.
Understanding what
works in publishing now is important, not because you want to write a vampire novel or an erotic novel, but because that's what readers are buying.
While working in publishing turned me into a lover of structured data, nothing satisfies intellectual curiosity quite like working on the technology.
But in my experience, nothing matches the expertise of a freelance editor who
also works in publishing and looks at dozens of queries / pitches every week for their actual job.
She previously
worked in publishing at the UK Institute of Physics Publishing and more recently in R&D for the hearing implant company MED - EL in Innsbruck, Austria.
I'm the author of Get Up to Speed with Online Marketing, and
previously worked in publishing for 10 years, including as publishing director for McGraw - Hill.
Each issue is free to download and will include feature articles about a pertinent topic in global publishing, as well as international reports and profiles of innovative and interesting companies
working in publishing today.
(As an aside, Vook works in partnership with Publishers Weekly on a program that has self - published writers paying a fee for a line listing in PW publications that go to
folks working in the publishing industry.
As a publishing expert with over 20 years of experience in the industry
from working in publishing houses and as a freelance professional, I can be an invaluable member of your indie author team.
Sandy had
worked in publishing until that time, but found that going through her own first pregnancy and birth opened up a whole new world for her.
For the first time, the Frankfurter Buchmesse (11 - 15 October 2017) is organising an international networking event entitled «The Bigger Splash», which is aimed at marketing
experts working in the publishing industry.
A user who wrote in to Good e-Reader outlined exactly how print and e-book copyright
editing works in the publishing world «My fiance works as an proofreader for a publisher and does a mixture of print and electronic texts.
Edward
Peppitt worked in publishing for twenty years before founding Balloon View, a publisher of business and personal development books and courses.