Posted on January 30, 2009 by william swafford

I am a struggling author, struggling to get my work out there. I thought that I had found a way through an agent. I just found out that they are con-artist, which I had a feeling to begin with. This company is online under the name [...]

Posted on January 11, 2009 by william swafford

One of the hardest things about getting published, is getting the right information. It is so hard to find the right people to help you out. Everyone tells me that I shouldn’t have to pay for publishing and things, but I always do.
The internet is full of dead [...]

Posted on August 23, 2006 by Nancy Callahan

The five largest US publishers (aka the “Big Five” — Random House, HarperCollins, Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster and Time Warner Trade Books) raked in $4.8 billion in revenue in 2004.
Random House, of course, was the country’s largest publisher last year, with U.S. sales of about $1.33 billion, roughly flat with 2003. HarperCollins and [...]

Posted on April 27, 2006 by Nancy Callahan

It’s been a few weeks since I sent out my first queries to literary agents. So far, no bites — just a few rejections.
Luckily, I’m immune to rejections. (I’ve been a freelance writer for a few years, so I’m used to them.) Also, I’m thankful they’ve all been good non-form-letter rejections — each responded [...]

Posted on April 21, 2006 by Marsha James

When I say getting published takes time I don’t mean the process of creating the books or even writing the book. I am talking about just getting someone to accept the novel. After you have spent months and even years writing a book you can spend even more time shopping it around to different publishers.
That [...]

Posted on April 15, 2006 by Nancy Callahan

This morning, I sent out my first batch of agent queries.
They were all e-queries, thankfully, so there was no printing, paper-folding, or envelope-licking involved — just cutting, pasting, and sending. This was refreshing, as the process of finding potential agents and crafting a personalized query for each had been pretty arduous.
First, I’d checked sites [...]