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How to Be Your Own Literary Agent: An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published

by Richard Curtis

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A practical guide to the business of publishing

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A practical guide to the business of publishing

Richard Curtis’s guide maps the publishing process from manuscript submission through contract negotiations, subsidiary rights, marketing, and publicity. Its scope also includes differences among large and small publishers, self-publishing and electronic publishing, the role of editors, and how retail changes affect authors. The book gives particular attention to authors’ publishing rights and their involvement in decisions about a book’s design and promotion. First published in 2003 and described as revised and expanded, it presents publishing as a business writers need to understand as they consider how to bring a book to market.

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  • Writers preparing to submit a manuscript to publishers or editors
  • Authors seeking an overview of contracts, rights, marketing, and publicity
  • Writers comparing traditional, self-publishing, and electronic publishing

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The publishing processContracts and subsidiary rightsMarketing and publicityPublishing formats and retail change

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Book overview

How to Be Your Own Literary Agent takes the mystery out of book publishing for any writer, published or not. Richard Curtis -- a top literary agent for more than thirty years -- provides a comprehensive practical overview of the publishing process, from submissions to contract negotiations to subsidiary rights to marketing, publicity, and beyond. He also gives away trade secrets and invaluable wisdom -- candid advice that can be found nowhere else. Now completely revised and expanded, How to Be Your Own Literary Agent is essential reading for all writers.

* Big publishers, small publishers, self-publishers, e-publishers: how to keep up in a rapidly changing business * The new breed of busy literary editors: how to find them and know what they're looking for * What the electronic revolution means to you, and how to take advantage of it * How to know your "publishing" rights and negotiate effectively * How to have a say in your book's design, jacket, and promotion * How book chains and superstores have altered publishing -- and what that means for you
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