You have written a tome and come to a decision it is good enough to get published. There are several routes to getting your manuscript into print. Whichever way you choose you ought to have it professionally reviewed and edited. If you come to a decision to try the conventional publishing route the foremost thing you have got to do is unearth an agent to represent you. (Publishers tend not to agree to submissions directly so you have to use an agent).
Start by purchasing the Writers and Artists Year Book and the Writer’s Handbook. They are the best source for finding information on agents and publishers. They also hold positive information on preparation and production of your submission documents . Look through their lists of agents for ones who accepted your genera.
next check their web sites to get as much information as you can regarding the right way to present your volume . All of the agents have to some extent different requirements. though nearly all call for an introductory letter, a synopsis of 1000 words and the first, one, two or three chapters.
every agent has specific rules on how everything be supposed to be laid out, headers and footers or not as the case may be. nearly everyone entail double spacing. Get even the smallest amount thing wrong and your pride and joy will go straight into their reject bin.
Make sure you check and double-check everything before posting the papers off to the various agents you have selected from the list after that sit back and wait. During the next few months the majority will send you rejection notes. Some send back nothing at all. A little demoralizing in actual fact, particularly if the pro editors comments and the review were positive.
With the quantity of rejections mounting it is time to determine what was going on. You were clear in your mind you had something someone would take pleasure in reading. You followed the submission rules each agent specified exactly. The document was professionally edited and you have revised it several times. It must absolutely be worth more than a perfunctory ‘Thanks but no thanks!’
So what is going on?
Agents and publishers are flooded by manuscripts. They make use of the slightest excuse for rejection to make their existence less difficult. ‘Bound by means of a ruby elastic band not yellow, decline pile.’
You are not eminent then reject pile. (If you are famous then they know they will get quick sales of any volume you write even if it is rubbish).
No writing experience or publication history the discard pile again.
This is one of those catch twenty-two situations can’t get published because you haven’t been published. They have enough well-known authors on their books already why bother with a total unknown? The only method to be successful now time is if you either knew someone eminent or a well-known author to advocate you. Or else you have to be acquainted with an agent or publisher personally.
So what after a lot of effort, luck, as well as a pile of rejection letters you finally manage to interest an agent? The agent subsequently has to interest a publisher in your volume, a further extensive wait!
After all that time as well as effort you finally manage to get a publisher interested in your volume what do you get out of it?
The most important benefit is that the publisher will bear all the costs of getting your book into print then promoting and selling it. They have the contacts along with the resources to push it giving you maximum exposure.
The disadvantages are by every single one the people involved, agent, publisher, printer, wholesaler and bookshop you finish up with very little of the money when your book is sold. Usually you will get 5% to 10% of the selling price. The other drawback is if the hardback does not get to the sales numbers they budgeted for within the first three to six months they will deposit your book into the ‘back issue’ catalogue. As soon as this transpires your writing career is as good as finished.
Times are changing, there are at the moment numerous other more straightforward ways to get your volume published as well as obtain a higher return for your hard work.
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