GETTING YOUR BOOK PUBLISHED
A practical guide to publishing your book traditionally or electronically.
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- • Learn how to choose an idea that matches the market
- • Understand agents, proposals, pitch meetings, and publisher offers
- • See how advances, royalties, delivery, and contract terms work
- • Get practical guidance on marketing before and after publication
- • Compare traditional publishing with self-publishing and e-publishing options
الوصف
Getting Your Book Published explains how writers can move from an idea to a finished, marketable book—whether through traditional print publishing, self-publishing, or electronic publishing. The book walks you through finding and choosing an idea that can sell, understanding audiences and market needs, and planning for the realities of time, effort, and contracts. It covers the role of agents and publishers, how to prepare a book proposal, how query letters and pitch meetings work, and what an offer, advance, royalties, delivery dates, and negotiation terms typically involve. Finally, it addresses marketing before and after publication and describes promotion strategies, including book tours, signings, author websites, and eBook platforms such as Amazon.
فهرس المحتويات
INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW OF THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY Traditional Print Publishers Self Publishing Electronic Publishing Getting Started THE WRITING PROCESS – AN OVERVIEW FINDING IDEAS WHAT WILL PEOPLE BUY? WHAT TO CONSIDER WHEN CHOOSING AN IDEA STICK WITH WHAT YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT AGENTS WHO NEEDS AN AGENT? THE BOOK PROPOSAL REPRESENTING YOURSELF HOW TO LOCATE AGENTS CONTACTING AGENTS CHOOSING A GOOD AGENT ALL ABOUT PUBLISHERS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Sending In Your Own Submissions When An Agent Submits to Publishers THE PITCH MEETING THE OFFER…WHAT A DEAL! The Offer The Advance Royalties Book Delivery and Publication Dates NEGOTIATING THE CONTRACT MARKETING A BOOK PRE-PUBLISHING MARKETING POST-PUBLISHING MARKETING ON THE ROAD…NEAR AND FAR SELF-PUBLISHING AND ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING CONCLUSION
معاينة
When you talk to people about books, many get a faraway look in their eyes. They are thinking of those wonderful moments before going to sleep with a book in their hands. They are remembering those golden moments when the day’s struggles and worries are over and it’s time to get lost in another world contained in the pages. This may seem like a romantic view of the books, but people who enjoy reading tal ...
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