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Have you ever noticed that there are typically two names on the front of children’s books? The author and the illustrator. I’ve always found it a little bit unusual that the two entities can be separated considering how beautiful and accurate the illustration mirrors the words. I started doing a bit of researching when I…
Category Archives: Getting Published
Writing a Comical Book and Getting it Noticed
If you have a funny side and can string simple sentences or stories together, then why not write a comical book? Everyone loves to read humerous writing where the author portrays their sense of character through their writing style. Getting your work noticed is a boost to your writing career and could even land you…
How to Publish Your Own Book
Many people have the desire to write about things they love, whether it is fiction or non-fiction writing. Everyone has a story to tell but rarely people decide to publish the writing they have produced. It is not as difficult as some people may think to publish a book that you’ve written with your own…
a bad agent
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 of Writer’s Literary agency. They are curtainly under an…
Is it hard to get publish?
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 ends when looking for the right…
Top Five Publishers Make $4.8 Billion
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…
Getting Published, part 2
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…
Getting Published Takes Time
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….
Getting Published, part 1
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…