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Position:Home>Books & Authors> What do you have to do to become a published author?Question: What do you have to do to become a published author!? I've always dreamed of being an author and I love writing stories!. I've just started writing a book that I've had planned out in my head for years and I just wanted to know, once I've finished writing it, what I have to do to get it published (if it's good enough)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: - Don't write the entire book!. The publisher will most likely ask for changes in the plot and structure!. In any case, they won't read the whole manuscript!. What do you really need is to structure your book coherently but only write a few selected chapters from its beginning, development, and denouement!. - Get in touch with the publisher, possibly by phone!. Contrary to popular belief you don't NEED to have an agent, although it helps!. Contact the publisher and ask the relevant info: who should you address your work to and how!. - Submit your work (the aforementioned selection) as agreed (which could be by mail, for example), including a presentation letter in which you, basicaly, tell them why they should publish your work - Give them a little time to examine your work!. Then contact again and fix an appointment!. Go to the appointment and sort things out with them!. This is what professionals do!. Good luck!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Hmm!.!.!.wrote a wee story nearly 20 years ago (345 pgs!.) and wrote to many publishers, half said they didn't deal in such subjects (but noticed that some included same subjects in the past!.!.!.with some stories reaching the top), most of the other half decided not to reply!. Then discovered a couple of 'vanity' publishers - they both said yes, but I had to rustle up between ￡3,000/￡4,500 to get it published!. Was told that I should write to agents, and so I did - but received the same sort of answers!. The subject; child abuse in approved schools, and the stop/start confusingly maturing of boys in question!. Still have the damned thing somewhere in the attic, but realise if you live within the M25 - or better still, within a 5 miles radius of Sloane Square, you'd be sorted!Www@QuestionHome@Com Im writing a book too!. My friend Chelsea is my editor right now but if you get a legitamite answer to this question would you email me how i could get mine published too!?!?!? \ also best of luck to your book!. I would be glad to read it if you get it publishes (you probably will though) Best of luck fellow writer!!! Www@QuestionHome@Com You don't go to a publisher with it!. You need to find an agent, as publishers these days deal with agents not writers!. If the agent thinks it's good enough he'll send it to a publisher!.Www@QuestionHome@Com why are britian people idiots!?!?!? GO TO COLLUGE! -sexy american chick!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Find and contact a publisher!. They'll take your book to an editor if they think it's good enough!. (You can sometimes send it over the Internet, I think)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com take it to a publisherWww@QuestionHome@Com |