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Reputable literary agents receive dozens of query letters a month, but they only take on a few new clients each year! Writing a compelling query letter is an important step for landing a good agent. Letters must be concise and professional and have all the information the agent expects, but they must also be intriguing and capture the agents’ attention.
Is your book idea so commercially viable that a traditional publisher might catch your vision and invest in it? Then you need to write a convincing book proposal, persuading them your book has economic potential.
Writing a book proposal also helps you develop clarity and talk about your ideas smoothly and succinctly. This ability is essential, whatever your publishing path.
Everyone has a brand...BUT IS YOUR BRAND WHAT YOU WANT?
Our brand is the way we present ourselves and how others perceive us. It’s our writer persona and personality. It’s how people identify us in their minds and emotions. Think of an author, any author. What comes to mind? Their face? Their signature? Is it something they wrote? Or something they said? Something others said about them?
The pay-to-publish world (also called subsidy or vanity publishing) includes publishers who sell their expertise to help launch unrecognized authors, unscrupulous pseudo-experts making as much as they can off inexperienced authors, and many others in between. Going with a subsidy publisher can be cheaper and seem easier than paying for quality editors, designers, and project managers, but it’s not uncommon to end up with a shoddy product. Here are five important things to know about paying to publish…
Many people are drawn to writing and publishing their own ideas. But before you invest everything it takes, it is helpful to be very clear about WHY this is important to you. Writing and publishing a book IS a rewarding, life changing experience, but it’s seldom financially profitable, and book sales often don’t cover the cost of production. So why make the investment?
