The Inside Scoop: Two Agents Dish on Getting Published - Softcover

Grant, Janet Kobobel; Lawton, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692834389 ISBN 13: 9780692834381

Publisher: Story Architect, 2017

Synopsis

Insider publishing tips revealed

You yearn to get published, but the journey looks perilous and complicated. Don’t give up! Two literary agents break it all down, dishing up pointers for you. In an easy, step-by-step format, learn how to take your concept from the seed of an idea to a published book.

·What’s right for you--DIY or traditional publishing?·Should you get an agent or go it alone? ·How does an agent or an editor know if an idea is dead on arrival?·Which elements make a proposal stand out?·What does silence mean from an agent?·What takes an author’s book marketing efforts from wasted to meaningful?

Avoid the pitfalls on the path to publication. Learn the dos and don’ts, the ins and outs, from two insiders willing to tell it like it is.

About this title

About the Author:

Janet Kobobel Grant and Wendy Lawton have a combined half-century of experience in publishing. Grant is the founder and president of the much-respected, California-based Books & Such Literary Management, where Lawton is vice president and senior agent. Between the two of them, they have successfully sold more than one thousand books and lived to tell about it. www.booksandsuch.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Story Architect
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0692834389
• ISBN 13: 9780692834381
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272