Finding agents and/or publishers.
By Annie2
@Annie2 (594)
United States
July 25, 2008 6:35pm CST
If you have written a book and had it published, what hoops did you have to go through to find an agent or publisher? Do you self-publish (therefore, self-promote,too) or do you have an agent and/or publisher? I have a children's book that a publisher would like to publish, but not without me spending several hundred dollars first. Self-publishing is too expensive for me. What works best for you?
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@Xdrowninghavocx (3117)
• United States
26 Jul 08
Their are several obstacles that you have to crawl over just to become known. I think I would try to self publish first before I set out for an agent. You are saving money that way, you know? I think I'd look for an agent after I've tried to self publish.
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@Annie2 (594)
• United States
26 Jul 08
Well, as I said, I simply cannot afford to self-publish. Maybe someday. Self-publishing also requires self-promotion. However, the publisher I have talked to does offer a little bit of help there, but not much. I understand that many publishers won't even look at a manuscript if it was not submitted to them by an agent, and even then, they want the writer to be a published writer. They are so saturated with wanna-be writers. If you self-publish, is that what those publishers will consider as a "published" writer? If you self-publish, does that mean that the quality of writing doesn't matter . . . that anyone can self-publish? Does that diminish the status of a writer because he/she is self-published?
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