African American Literary Agents Publishers
Monday, February 28th, 2011 at
12:56 pm
How to Prepare, Start Writing and Publish a Book
rom tips on how to start writing a book to looking for literary agents that will help you publish your work, the article below will serve a guideline for the aspiring author.
Writing a book and having it published is a feat for most people but for those who are gifted in weaving words, it may be just a walk in the park for them. One may have ideas on what to write about but canât just put in into writing. So how exactly does one write and publish a book?
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after it’s finished and polished you would need an agent. They have the expertise to shop it around to the publishers most likely to be interested in it.
Self publishing costs you money and there is little distribution of the book outside of friends, family, and your own efforts. Traditional publishing pays you money and the book is distributed in book stores and libraries. To a large extent, self publishers do not care about the quality of the work vanity presses exist to feed off of people’s desire to be published). Traditional publishers do care, as they exist to provide good books for the public to read.
Consider joining a writer’s group (I like abosulte wite water cooler). You can learn a lot about the publishing industry, the craft of writing, and have access to critiques of your work and listings of reputable and scam agents/publishers.
What’s the best way to publish and promote a teen fiction novel ?
I’m writing my first novel about young african american teen girls .
I would like to know should I send my novel to a literary agent who will send it to a publisher or should I take the self publishing route.
I would like the pros and cons of both publishing and self publishing
Also what are some good publishing companies that I could submit my novel to ?