How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published
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HOW TO FIND PUBLISHERS AND AGENTS AND GET PUBLISHED is about how to successfully write, pitch a book, write a query letter, promote a book, and build a platform. Many of these chapters started off as answers to questions from clients or prospective clients of The Publishing Connection, a service that connects writers to publishers and agents. Then, I began thinking about all the steps involved from writing a book to getting published.
This is the first is a series of books directed to writers, primarily those new to pitching books and getting published, although previously published writers can benefit from some chapters, too.
The book is divided into five parts:
- Writing Your Book: how to write your book, including increasing your creativity, looking to your personal experiences for ideas, expanding blogs or articles into books, and editing and polishing your book;
- Pitching Your Book: how to determine whether to find a publisher or agent or self-publish, the pros and cons of working with a small or large publisher, and how to choose what publisher or agent to work with;
- Sending Query Letters: how to write a good query letter to interest an agent, publisher, of producer in your book or script;
- Promoting Your Book: how to build your platform and promote your book;
- Problems with Publishers: how to deal with problem publishers who don’t pay you.
The chapters in this book are drawn from my over 30 years of experience in writing, pitching, promoting, and publishing books for myself and for clients; writing and sending out queries to pitch books and scripts for over 1000 clients; and working with dozens of publishers, agents, and film producers along the way.
Gini Graham Scott Ph.D.
Gini Graham Scott has published over 50 books with mainstream publishers, focusing on social trends, work and business relationships, and personal and professional development. Some of these books include Scammed (Allworth Press, 2017), Lies and Liars: How and Why Sociopaths Lie and How to Detect and Deal with Them (Skyhorse Publishing 2016), Internet Book Piracy (Allworth Press 2016), The New Middle Ages (Nortia Press 2014), and The Very Next New Thing (ABC-Clio 2010). She published a series of books on homicide: Homicide by the Rich and Famous (Praeger Publishing 2005; Berkley Books paperback 2006), American Murder (ABC-Clio, 2007), and Homicide: A Hundred Years of Murder in America (Roxbury 1998). Scott has gained extensive media interest for previous books, including appearances on Good Morning America, Oprah, Montel Williams, CNN, and hundreds of radio interviews. She has frequently been quoted by the media and has set up websites to promote her most recent books, featured at www.ginigrahamscott.com and www.changemakerspublishing.com.
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How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published - Gini Graham Scott Ph.D.
How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published
Tips and Techniques from the Publishers, Agents and Films Blog for Writers
By Gini Graham Scott
CHANGEMAKERS PUBLISHING & WRITING
3527 Mt. Diablo Blvd., #273 . Lafayette, CA 94549
www.changemakerspublishingandwriting.com
HOW TO FIND PUBLISHERS AND AGENTS AND GET PUBLISHED
Copyright © 2015 by Gini Graham Scott
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gini Graham Scott has published over 50 books with mainstream publishers, focusing on social trends, work and business relationships, and personal and professional development. Some of these books include The Very Next New Thing, The Talk Show Revolution, The Privacy Revolution. The Battle for Personal Privacy, and Fantasy Worlds.
She has gained extensive media interest for previous books, including appearances on Good Morning America, Oprah, Montel Williams, CNN, and hundreds of radio interviews. She has frequently been quoted by the media and has set up websites to promote her most recent books, featured at www.ginigrahamscott.com and www.changemakerspublishingandwriting..com. As of this writing, she has about 100,000 listings in Google Search Results.
She has become a regular Huffington Post blogger since December 2012, and has a Facebook page featuring her books and films at www.facebook.com/changemakerspublishing.
She has written, produced, and sometimes directed over 60 short videos, which are featured on her Changemakers Productions website at www.changemakersproductions.com and on YouTube at www.youtube.com/changemakersprod.
Her screenplays, mostly in the drama, crime, legal thriller, and sci-fi genres, include several that consider the social implications of science and technological breakthroughs and changes in society, including The New Child, New Identity, Dead No More, Tax Revolt, and The Suicide Party. All of these are in development with trailers, business plans, and interested directors and talent.
She has a PhD in sociology from U.C. Berkeley and MAs in anthropology, pop culture and lifestyles, recreation and tourism, and organizational/consumer/audience behavior from Cal State, East Bay. She is getting an MA in communications in June 2016.
She is also the Creative Director of Publishers, Agents and Films (www.publishersagentsandfilms.com), a service which connections writers to publishers, agents, and the film industry.
Her feature film, SUICIDE PARTY: SAVE DAVE, which she wrote and executive produced, is being released in the summer of 2015. Details are at www.suicidepartyfilm.com.
Additional bio and promotional material is at her websites at www.ginigrahamscott.com and www.changemakerspublishingandwriting.com.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
PART I:
WRITING YOUR BOOK
CHAPTER 1: INCREASING YOUR CREATIVITY TO IMPROVE YOUR WRITING
CHAPTER 2: HOW TO TURN YOUR EXPERIENCES INTO SOMETHING YOU CAN GET PUBLISHED
CHAPTER 3: Turning Your Blogs into a Book or Your Book into Blogs
CHAPTER 4: EDITING AND POLISHING YOUR LETTER, PROPOSAL, OR MANUSCRIPT
PART II:
PITCHING YOUR BOOK
CHAPTER 5: Should You Find a Publisher or an Agent?
CHAPTER 6: Should You Find a Publisher or Self-Publish?
CHAPTER 7: THE PROS AND CONS OF WORKING WITH A SMALL OR LARGE PUBLISHER
CHAPTER 8: DECIDING WHAT PUBLISHER OR AGENT TO WORK WITH WHEN BOTH ARE INTERESTED
CHAPTER 9: DECIDING WHAT AGENT TO WORK WITH
CHAPTER 10: DECIDING WHAT PUBLISHER TO WORK WITH
PART III:
SENDING QUERY LETTERS
CHAPTER 11: Three Guidelines for Writing a Good Query Letter to Book Publishers and Agents
CHAPTER 12: What to Say In Your Query Letter for a Novel or Script
PART IV:
PROMOTING YOUR BOOK
CHAPTER 13: Turning Your Book into a Series of Blogs
CHAPTER 14: Using a Crowdfunding Campaign to Promote Books and Films AND Find Publishers and Producers
PART V:
PROBLEMS WITH PUBLISHERS
CHAPTER 15: GETTING PAID FOR YOUR WORK WHEN PUBLISHERS OR OTHER COMPANIES DON’T PAY YOU
INTRODUCTION
This book began as a series of blogs for The Publishing Connection (www.thepublishingconnection.com) about how to successfully write, strategize how to pitch a book, write a query letter, promote a book, and build a platform. Many of these blogs started off as answers to questions from clients or prospective clients, and then I began thinking about all the steps involved from writing a book to getting published.
The result is the first is a series of books directed to writers, primarily those new to pitching books and getting published, although previously published writers can benefit from some chapters, too.
The book is divided into five parts:
- Writing Your Book: how to write your book, including increasing your creativity, looking to your personal experiences for ideas, expanding blogs or articles into books, and editing and polishing your book;
- Pitching