The Basics of Profitable Publishing Give your first editor just the first couple of chapters. You may see a recurring mistake that you can correct in the rest of your chapters before you show them to another editor.Review the Genre Specific Issues section for a few more tips about editing.

The Literary Agent

The role of the Literary Agent is to negotiate a contract for your book with a publisher that you wouldn't necessarily have direct access to. If you want to get with one of the big New York publishers, you will need an agent. However, be sure that any Literary Agent you submit your manuscript to is a member of the Association of Author's Representatives Member (AAR) or some other type of third party association governing the ethical practices of their member agents. The internet or phone book are great places to find literary agents. But as with all other things, interview them about who they submit their manuscripts to - how often they've been picked up, their rates and get a review copy of their contract. Ask for references! Are they worth it? Ask the authors who have used them or tried to use them and after disseminating that information, make an informed decision. Note: If you hire an agent, the contract that they negotiate with you states that they are the ones paid, then they take out what they are due, then in turn pay you.

the Reviewers/ Readers

Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired,
and success achieved.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

~Helen Keller

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The Literary Agent

The role of the Literary Agent is to negotiate a contract for your book with a publisher that you wouldn't necessarily have direct access to.

If you want to get with one of the big New York publishers, you will need an agent. However, be sure that any Literary Agent you submit your manuscript to is a member of the Association of Author's Representatives Member (AAR) or some other type of third party association governing the ethical practices of their member agents.

The internet or phone book are great places to find literary agents. But as with all other things, interview them about who they submit their manuscripts to - how often they've been picked up, their rates and get a review copy of their contract.

Ask for references!

Are they worth it? Ask the authors who have used them or tried to use them and after disseminating that information, make an informed decision.

Note: If you hire an agent, the contract that they negotiate with you states that they are the ones paid, then they take out what they are due, then in turn pay you.

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Phoenix Wisdoms:

If I'm, not calling 911, it's not a big deal.

"Love your neighbor as yourself" implies that we can bestow love only to the degree that we have healthy self-love.

We are where we are.

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Phoenix Wisdoms: If I'm, not calling 911, it's not a big deal. "Love your neighbor as yourself" implies that we can bestow love only to the degree that we have healthy self-love. We are where we are.

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Table of Contents
Page 7
Page 14
Page 21
Page 28
Page 35
Page 42
Page 49
Page 56
Page 63
Order Information
Reviews

Phoenix Wisdoms:

If I'm, not calling 911, it's not a big deal.

"Love your neighbor as yourself" implies that we can bestow love only to the degree that we have healthy self-love.

We are where we are.

© Copyright 2009, EJ Thornton
All rights reserved.

Last updated on: Thursday, September 02, 2010