Sunday, 16 June 2013

Tips In Selecting Urban Book Publishers

By Lou Manning


If you are looking for urban book publishers, look for one with a good reputation. Guess this is true with any establishments that you are trying to deal with. As a writer whether you are a first timer or a seasoned writer, to be in good hands is what you would like.

You would like that the team helping get your manuscript published is a good one. They should be reliable and credible to help with it. If you want to publish a book, it is not you alone who is going to do the job. You need a team and this is just any team.

Unless you pitch in for the production of the manuscript, the cost will be shouldered by the publishing company everything from the printing down to marketing it or getting people to take notice of your product. It will be all work done by the publishing including distribution. Your part was just to write a good story that would hopefully get the attention of the readers and buy the finished product in bookstores.

First is that you got to have an agent. Just like a celebrity in Hollywood, you need to have an agent who will do the dirty work for you. The agent is just another publishing professional who helps you with your story. He is a professional in the business and expectedly he has done this so many times with so many other aspiring authors who dream to get published.

He will contact publishing houses for you. He will pitch your work to publishing houses out there. You know it is not easy to penetrate the market. Even great writers had to start from the bottom. It is a typical story actually with great writers once shunned by publishing houses at first. No one is spared.

Every budding and aspiring writers have to go through the difficult start of knocking at the doors of different publishing houses hoping one of them would take them. You only need one publishing house to take notice of your work and everything will start from there. A newbie will have to start somewhere, right.

You must have heard of stories of authors how they started low their writing career. Then there is just this one publishing house who took a chance with them. It only takes one publishing house to believe in you, to take their chances with you.

Then the rest is up to you. By the way, this agent is going to do that for you. Send letters to publishing houses regarding your works so that you can focus with making beautiful stories. When looking for an agent, there are several things that you need to consider. One of that is the ability of the agent to get you some work.

Yes, you think that you have a beautiful story to tell or share with the world but it is the publishing company that knows the market really well. It does not hurt to incorporate their expertise in weaving the story. You know that it a successful launching is a collaboration of all the important elements of success like a good story, reliable and credible urban book publishers and yourself most importantly.




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