Traditional publishing houses don’t pay you for your book; they provide you with an advance.
Traditional publishing houses don’t pay you for your book; they provide you with an advance.
Your job for the foreseeable future is to sell books to cover your advance
Your job for the foreseeable future is to sell books to cover your advance
Traditional publishing houses will not get you in the news or on the talk show circuit
Traditional publishing houses will not get you in the news or on the talk show circuit
Traditional Publishing houses are banking on you to do the marketing
Traditional Publishing houses are banking on you to do the marketing
Even if you get a book deal, a traditional publishing house isn’t necessarily going to do what you think they will
Even if you get a book deal, a traditional publishing house isn’t necessarily going to do what you think they will.
If you want a traditional publishing house deal, you need an agent
If you want a traditional publishing house deal, you need an agent
Book proposals take about six months to write, maybe more
Ever written a book proposal before? Writing a book proposal is a lot like writing a dissertation for graduate school. Think 40-80 pages of goodness that argue why your book (idea) is salable and marketable in today's market. If that sounds easy enough…well…the...
Traditional publishing houses don’t buy non-fiction books; they buy book proposals
Traditional publishing houses don’t buy non-fiction books; they buy book proposals
The first thing you should know about traditional publishing
The first thing you should know about traditional publishing
Seated at the soda fountain
If you harbor the delusion that some powerful person will discover your gorgeous book ‘seated at the soda fountain’ and make you famous, you’re in for a rude awakening.