Book Review: Silver Phoenix
First-time YA fantasy novelist Cindy Pon will make you believe in worlds of awe and wonder again.
Fans of young adult fantasy who believe Harry Potter and Eragon encompasses all that can done within the genre need to open the new novel ‘Silver Phoenix,’ by Cindy Pon. Pon breaths some fresh life into the genre with a world as ancient and wondrous as any since Bilbo Baggins first set foot out of his hole. The author accomplishes this mainly by taking her readers away from the traditional Western-influenced fantasy worlds where big men with big swords fight big dragons, and she drops the readers right down into the world of ancient China. In this world, often scholars can be the greatest of heroes, and dragons are not always bad guys.
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First make sure that your manuscript is finished. As in you’re almost 100% sure that you can’t make it any better. (Don’t over-edit!). Only then it’s ready, lots of people (me included) send in their first manuscript before it’s ready. And it gets rejected.
Then go find publishers (or an agent) that accepts manuscripts of your genre. There are books which feature a lot of publishers and agents, go to amazon.com you’ll find them.
Anyway go to the publishers website, make sure you know and follow the rules, make sure you’re sending it to the right person and go write that query letter!
Then the trick is not to sit by your mailbox and wait (it can take up to 6 months with some publishers! If you keep waiting for it it will drive you crazy) but to go and write something else. Go focus on another story.
And if you get a rejection letter, don’t let it get to you. It doesn’t mean that your story is bad or anything, just that it’s not for them, or it’s not the right time, or not to their taste or a million other reasons. if they take the time to write a personal letter, be sure to listen carefully to their criticism, and do something with it!
If you get a acceptation letter, congrats! And you’ll hear from your editor what will happen next 🙂
Good luck and I hope this helped!
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What are the processes of publishing a book?
I know it’s pretty hard to get a first book published, but I was just interested. Thanks.
They will send you a contract, which you have to read (and understand–if you are lucky enough to have this happen to you, ask for help with it!!) and sign. You don’t have to go anywhere, you just send them the stuff and they take care of it.
You will get less than 20% of the sales regardless of how old you are. We generally give royalty rates of 7 to 10 percent of our net receipts. This isn’t actually as bad as it sounds. First, you have to take the cost of the actual physical book–the cost for the paper, the ink, shipping it from a foreign printer to the warehouse in the US, etc. You also have to take the cost of everything the publishing company put into making it a book–they paid for people to edit the book, to design it, to do the layout, to make a cover. They may have paid for art or photographs for the book. And there’s the basic costs of keeping a publishing house running–electricity, computers, heating and water, etc. After they take all these costs out, the publisher may only get something like 20 cents on every copy of the book sold.
Say it’s a $18.00 book (list price), the publisher’s net receipts may be $10 (because we have to sell the books to Amazon and so on at a discount, so they can have a couple cents profit too when they sell to the consumer), and at a 10% royalty rate you’re getting a dollar per book, and the publisher is getting maybe 20 cents. You look at it at first and say, “I’m only getting one dollar on an $18 book; that means the publisher is keeping $17, that’s not fair!” when in reality that’s not the case at all.
What ist he entire book publishing process, how can I do it and what do I need?
I am 15 this is my first book. I really would like to look into getting it published, however, I have no idea what to do to get that far….any help would be appricieated and please no rude answers.
I am very limitied with money right now…
There are two options:
You can send your manuscript to an agent or choose to self-publish. Keep in mind that when you send your work to a traditional publisher, it can take you a long time for your work to be recognized. More often than not, your work gets rejected. If you don’t have the patience, you may end up getting frustrated.
When you self-publish, you pay to get your book out. This can be a tradeoff, but the gains may be more than you expect. Many authors nowadays turn to self-publishing for many good reasons.
Self-publishing is also a smarter option especially that you are planning to publish a book on a specific niche, because you can actually cater to your target readers. You also get to control the number of books you want to have printed. Usually, your POD publisher only prints your book depending on demand. This way, you wont end up with a garage full of unsold books.
Whatever publishing route you choose, make sure that you understand how publishing really works. Publishing is never easy. When you’re sure of what you want, you will not have any regrets in the end.
Also, keep in mind that your age is not a hindrance to getting your book published. More power on your publishing plans!
For more information on publishing a book:
http://selfpublishingjourney.wordpress.com
1. you must complete a fiction piece prior to finding an agent
2. revise! revise! revise! Get other people to look at it. And by revise, I don’t mean edit for grammar mistakes only, rewrite weak sentence etc.
3. When you are done, you will want to contact an agent. At that point (it will be at least a month I assume) you will want to go to the website agentquery.com and find more information there. there are tons of websites available about writing query letters
4. Okay, the agent: an agent reads your query, if they like it, they will ask you for a partial (3 chapters, 50 pages, somehting like that), if they like that, they wil ask for an ms. A month or two goes by and they will hopefully say they want to represent you. (see how you have to have the book done before you query? it is so it will be ready if the agent wants more). You two will sign a contract. NO MONEY WILL BE GIVEN
5. The agent will be select in getting your ms to pubs. MANY pubs will only look at mss from agents. so you really want an agent. When the pub decides to take your book, you, your agent, and the pub will negotiate contract. ANOTHER reason you want an agent. most writers don’t know legal jargon
6. Okay, contract is signed. Hopefully you get an advance on your royalties. That money (let’s say 5000 to be optimistic) goes to your agent. The agent takes the check and takes out thier fee (usually 15%) and cut you your check (don’t be alarmed, this is how it goes)
7. As your book sells, you will get royalties, usually ove varying percentages depending on how much you sell (the more the book sells the hight % of the sales you get)
8. Again, pub sends the agent the check, agent takes their cut, you get check.
So lets just say, your book has a $10.00 list price (what you called a cover price), 10% of that is sent to your rep. The rep then takes her 15%. You get .85 cents per book. Again, agents will negotiate things for you, allowing you (and there for her) to get as high of a percentage as possible.
Okay…I think I desereve 10 points for writing ALL that down:) really do check out agentquery.com and I would suggest reading some lit agent blogs to get an idea of things. http://pubrants.blogspot.com/ is by Kristin Nelson. She has Agenting 101 articles in the blog as well as sample query letters. Right now though, FINISH THE BOOK!
Good for you! I’m fourteen and I published my book when I was twelve. If I can do it so can you! Here’s how I recommend you go about publishing your book. Find a publisher you like and submit your manuscript. Remember, it takes most authors lots of tries submitting their manuscript to different publishers. Let’s say you have a publisher that likes your book and gives you a contract to print your book. Now you go through editing which doesn’t take a lot on your part. Next (if your book requires this) is illustration. Most of the time the publisher has hired illustrators to work on your book. That step is easy unless you choose to hire someone separately or draw them yourself. Now your book starts the printing process. This is your time to start the hardest part in publishing a book…MARKETING. Most people who dive blindly into publishing a book don’t get. Unless you are a famous author YOU the author are expected to do most of the marketing for your book. That means getting a website, contacting book stores, contacting media, and a lot more! This is very hard work. If you a prepared to give up a significant amount of time to promote your book, this is fine. If you expect to sit on your couch and wait for your first paycheck you are sadly mistaken. Put the effort in and it will pay off. To help people make their writing dreams reality, I am now offering a full, detailed report on how to publish a book through my website http://www.tomatoturtle.com for less than two dollars! Just click “order” in the menu bar and add it to your cart. I highly recommend you check that out. Also, if you have any questions you can contact me through my website by clicking “contact” in the menu bar. Good luck!
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I need advise for publishing a book?
I line in wisconsin and im wondering about the book publishing process. I am writing a about 450 page fantasy and so far have written 150 and I’m wondering how it all works. You know who should I give it to. Should I hire an agent? How much of the cover price do i get per book etc. 10 points for the most precise and informative answer. Thank you
What is the book publishing process like? Is it true that you only get 20% or lower if your a minor?
When you send your book to a publisher, and they want to publish it, how does it all happen? Do you have to sigh anything? Do you have to go anywhere in order for it to be made?
Also, is it true in most states, you only get 20% of whats published and sold if you are under the age of 18 (Or 20.)
what are the processes of publishing a book?
well I am a 14 year old boy who is writing a story on the computer, though i just started on a new story i want to know how to publish a book?