getting published

Submitting Partials

June 25, 2009

If publishers want me to have my manuscript completed before I start shopping it around, why do they only want to see my first few chapters? In this electronic age, do you see publishers skipping the “sample chapters” step in the future? If I’m just sending a file, it doesn’t take up that much more [...]

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Why Hire an Editor?

April 23, 2009

Money should flow toward the writer. You might have heard this phrase before. It’s one of those standard bits of advice you hear a lot in the publishing industry. And, it has a lot of merit. You shouldn’t have to pay someone to represent your book. Reputable literary agents operate like real estate agents, making [...]

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The Crapshoot

April 16, 2009

Authors will often refer to the submission and rejection process as a crapshoot. For those unfamiliar with the term, craps is a dice game of chance. A crapshoot is a roll of the dice, and it’s come to mean a gamble with random and uncontrollable results. You’ll probably have heard, more than once, that getting [...]

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