6/18/2013

How Urban Book Publishers Help Authors

By Lou Manning


It is easy to find urban book publishers but it is not easy to get published. There are writers who are not that successful in getting a publisher for themselves. That is because it is a gamble.

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.

They are people with technical knowledge about publishing and marketing the product for you. They are experienced. They have helped other authors in getting there work out there in the market. The final outcome is a collaboration of all the parties that helped to make the product a market success and this is what you would like to have when you get your team.

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.

It should be something that publishing houses think worth publishing and worth reading most importantly. You should be able to find a good publishing house. There are many publishing houses just like many corporate labels for singers and band artists.

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.

He or she has to be good. He should not sell you out to publishing houses that he knows will not meet up on your terms. Even if you are just starting out with your writing career, you got to have some terms. Draw out the line with urban book publishers. You are also trying to make a living here.




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