After completing your manuscript, where do you submit it?
Will any agent or publisher take it?
You know the answer to that. Completing the book was only half the work, and now you have to start the other half.
Narrow down your publishing options. Read books that a house has published. Get their guidelines or mission statement if you can find it.
Believe me, just looking at a list of publishers that accepts your genre/topic of writing and throwing the same proposal at each won't work. Just as you narrowed the target audience of you manuscript, so you have to narrow the publishers down.
In short, to quote someone though I don't know who, "Use a rifle, not a shotgun when you're looking for a publisher."
My younger brother freaks me out sometimes. I was sleeping on a couch when he woke me up by bumping my leg. My eyelids shot open and I nearly decked the figure standing over me till I realized it was my brother.
"Go away!"
He nodded and laid on the floor. The next morning, he didn't remember anything from this incident!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Use a rifle, not a shotgun
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4 comments:
Oh wow..my dad is JUST like that...actually kinda scary sometimes...when my sister hurt got hit in the nose while he was asleep, she woke him up and he put his forearm to her forehead and said "You don't have a fever..Do you need a band-aid?"
The next morning, he didn't even remember it at all...
-Judi
Thanks a lot for all of the publishing information/techniques/etc that you write about on your blog...they are all really helpful, and I feel as if my chances of one day getting published have doubled or tripled from reading your blog! Thank you!
:)Ian(:
Jamin, I love your blog! I found you on CWG facebook group blogroll discussion. Keep up the writing for HIM!
People while they're asleep; that could be a good book right there!
My pleasure, Ian. My goal with this blog is to share what I know. Another GREAT site is http://chipmacgregor.com/
That guy is awesome!
Good to meet you, Heidi.
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