How To Be Your Own Literary Agent: An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published

"Required reading" for aspiring authors and published writers alike, an up-to-date guide on how to navigate the publishing marketplace like a pro (Writer's Digest). How to Be Your Own Literary Agent takes the mystery out of book publishing for any writer, published or not. Richard Curtis -- a top literary agent for more than thirty years -- provides a comprehensive practical overview of the publishing process, from submissions to contract negotiations to subsidiary rights to marketing, publicity, and beyond. He also gives away trade secrets and invaluable wisdom -- candid advice that can be found nowhere else. Now completely revised and expanded, How to Be Your Own Literary Agent is essential reading for all writers.

- Big publishers, small publishers, self-publishers, e-publishers: how to keep up in a rapidly changing business - The new breed of busy literary editors: how to find them and know what they're looking for - What the electronic revolution means to you, and how to take advantage of it - How to know your "publishing" rights and negotiate effectively - How to have a say in your book's design, jacket, and promotion - How book chains and superstores have altered publishing -- and what that means for you

© 2003 Mariner Books (E-bog): 9780547524269

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E-bog: 17. november 2003