Quality Publishing

I'm sure many people out there want to write the next best selling book or the next great book, but i'm sure many don't know where to start. Well this blogpost is a great start.

In publishing a book, you must first ensure that the book is good, and is something that publishers and agents would be willing to spend their money on. Before you send it to an international editor, ensure it's edited by someone local. After you edited it locally, either from your english language teacher or University professor, search for an agent. This search is usually done online, and the best way to find great agencies, is from writers digest. A great agency is the Knight agency.

Okay, so you found an agency. Now the hard work begins. Now you have to convince that agency, that your book is something special and can be the next best seller. You must send them a query letter http://www.johnsonliterary.com/blog/2010/2/9/anatomy-of-a-query-letter.html. A query letter is something like a   Resume. You want the agency to represent your book. After you send your query letter, it's all in God's hands now. Pray and wait with hope. You must also continue writing, because they might ask you if your working on anything else. If you get accepted by the agency, things good now. They will ask you to send the whole manuscript either by email or snailmail. They will then read it, if they like it, then things are really good. They would look for an editor then a publisher. It's all free by the way. Literary agents receives money via commissions on the book sales. Your book is one step closer to being reaching on bookshelves around the world.
The publishers will then print your work publish it and they pay you based on the amount of sales that they think the book can acquire. In other words they buy the rights to sell your book based on it's quality.
You then get royalties from the book sales.

These steps are not easy, i'm not going to lie to you. Getting accepted by an agency is tough. Never send query letters to one agency. The chances of being rejected are high, so send to many agents. Remember agents don't want to represent a "crappy" book, so make sure the book is quality before submitting.

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