You have written a manuscript and decide it is good enough to get published. There are loads of routes to getting your volume into print. Whichever way you make a decision you should have it professionally reviewed and edited. If you come to a decision to try the conventional publishing path the primary thing you have to do is locate an agent to represent you. (Publishers have a tendency not to acknowledge 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 finest source for finding information on agents and publishers. They also hold handy information on preparation and production of your submission papers . Look through their lists of agents for ones who accepted your genera.
subsequently check their web sites to get as much information as you can on the subject of the exact way to put forward your tome . All of the agents have to some extent different requirements. yet nearly everyone ask for an introductory letter, a synopsis of 1000 words and the first, one, two or three chapters.
every agent has specific set of laws on how all be supposed to be laid out, headers and footers or not as the case may be. the largest part need double spacing. Get even the least 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 documents off to the various agents you have selected from the list after that sit back and wait. During the next few months nearly all will send you rejection notes. Several return nothing at all. A little off-putting in actual fact, particularly if the pro editors observations and the review had been positive.
With the mass of rejections mounting it is time to determine what was going on. You were in no doubt you had something someone would get pleasure from reading. You followed the submission regulations each agent specified precisely. The document was professionally edited and you have revised it numerous times. It must of course be worth more than a fleeting ‘Thanks but no thanks!’
So what is going on?
Agents and publishers are flooded with manuscripts. They draw on the slightest excuse for rejection to make their life uncomplicated. ‘Bound with a burgundy elastic band not yellow, decline pile.’
You are not eminent then reject pile. (If you are well-known then they know they will get product sales of any manuscript you write even if it is rubbish).
No writing experience or publication history the reject pile once more.
This is one of those catch twenty-two situations can’t get published for the reason that you haven’t been published. They have sufficient recognized authors on their books already why bother with a total unknown? The only method to succeed now days is if you either knew someone eminent or a well-known writer to recommend you. Or else you have to be on familiar terms with an agent or publisher personally.
So what after a lot of effort, luck, and a mountain of rejection letters you finally manage to interest an agent? The agent subsequently has to interest a publisher in your volume, another extended wait!
After all that time as well as effort you finally manage to obtain a publisher interested in your volume what do you get out of it?
The chief advantage is that the publisher will bear all the costs of getting your manuscript into print subsequently promoting and selling it. They have the contacts plus the resources to push it giving you utmost exposure.
The disadvantages are by all the people involved, agent, publisher, printer, wholesaler and bookshop you finish up with very little of the cash when your hardback is bought. Commonly you will get 5% to 10% of the selling price. The further drawback is if the paperback does not get to the sales numbers they budgeted for within the first three to six months they will put your manuscript into the ‘back issue’ catalogue. Once this happens your writing career is as good as finished.
Times are changing, there are at this time many other speedier ways to get your manuscript in print and obtain a higher return for your efforts.
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