How To Get A Book Published
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- moderntimes
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Re: How To Get A Book Published
I've got a pal who's just starting out with novels, and he's darn good. But he needs an edit. I took just one chapter and carefully proofed it and I found dozens of mistakes, all mechanical, none of them "optional" -- actual errors. He wanted to pay me to edit the whole book but I deferred, that I was busy (and I am). But just one example -- find someone to proofread or edit your book, gang.
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torchwilde wrote:Self Publishing has been increasing over the last few years. I can see why. When you send out your query letter, and samples when asked and then receive a letter that gives no details above, sorry not interested at this time it becomes very frustrating. But you have to have a strategy for marketing your book. If you are going to go this route you have to be the one to light the fire, talk to the library about accepting your book as a donation, and possible connections through social networking. The truth is that there are so many books out there, it is hard to have anyone notice yours.
I believe this is a very true statement. The only person that will make your book a success is yourself. In this day of technology social networking is great! create different things like youtube, twitter, instagram, facebook etc.
Also learn how to seo your work, so that when people search for key terms your book will populate at the top. We as authors have to think outside of the box and get with the times or you will end up as a dinosaur in this world. Does anyone else feel this way like I do?
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This is VERY important. I didn't know much about SEO until I started freelance writing a couple of month ago. It's a must, and it's not that hard to learn and do. You just have to think about what people are most likely to type in a search engineblissthebook wrote:learn how to seo your worktorchwilde wrote:Self Publishing has been increasing over the last few years. I can see why. When you send out your query letter, and samples when asked and then receive a letter that gives no details above, sorry not interested at this time it becomes very frustrating. But you have to have a strategy for marketing your book. If you are going to go this route you have to be the one to light the fire, talk to the library about accepting your book as a donation, and possible connections through social networking. The truth is that there are so many books out there, it is hard to have anyone notice yours.
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I agree.blissthebook wrote:torchwilde wrote:Self Publishing has been increasing over the last few years. I can see why. When you send out your query letter, and samples when asked and then receive a letter that gives no details above, sorry not interested at this time it becomes very frustrating. But you have to have a strategy for marketing your book. If you are going to go this route you have to be the one to light the fire, talk to the library about accepting your book as a donation, and possible connections through social networking. The truth is that there are so many books out there, it is hard to have anyone notice yours.
I believe this is a very true statement. The only person that will make your book a success is yourself. In this day of technology social networking is great! create different things like youtube, twitter, instagram, facebook etc.
Also learn how to seo your work, so that when people search for key terms your book will populate at the top. We as authors have to think outside of the box and get with the times or you will end up as a dinosaur in this world. Does anyone else feel this way like I do?
— Walter Lippmann
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I would like someone to tell me how they've managed to get a bookstore to stock their self-published book. Because the major stumbling block for such is that bookstores require a return policy. That is, if they don't sell all the copies of the book they order, the publisher will let the store return them and issue full credit, so that the store loses no money.
Another aspect of this is how if you live in, say, Seattle, can you get the Barnes & Noble in Cleveland to stock your book?
Or, say that you're writing a mystery novel. How do you get the MWA (Mystery Writers' of America) to review your book and consider it for an award? Or if it's fantasy, then any sort of fantasy award?
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It's 2015 and I'm not getting younger but maybe braver. I'm going to see what happens by entering your short story contest. I just found you on Twitter today as I sought out #writers and your account popped up.
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I concur. Generating three novels has been relatively straightforward... listen to the story unfolding in my head, keep up productivity, stop when the story is done. Okay. Got that down. But getting an agent? I've sent queries to 200+ agents. Granted, my books are an odd fit, but I know at least two of the three are worthy of publication. So using an online ebook portal has been a good way to put the content online, and 3000 readers have picked up the first book, but that pales alongside print.ResearchScholar wrote:Most writers will eventually discover that product development -- i.e., writing a book -- is the easy part. Getting it published is also the easy part.
The excruciatingly difficult parts are distribution and marketing. Even if you have a great product, without any visibility -- through distribution and marketing -- it will be buried.
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Do you have to pay the agent from the beginning? Or do they get paid after you get a publisher?
Fare Thee Well Brother,
Rusty
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