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- Book publishing basics
- How to find a literary agent
- How to write a query letter
- How to work with literary agents
- How to navigate the publishing process
Book publishing basics
- How the traditional publishing process works
- What literary agents do
- How authors make money
- Everything you need to know about novel word counts
- How to find an editor prior to submitting
- What is an author platform?
- For the real threshold for traditional publication, look at debuts
- Book publishing glossary
- Writing and book publishing FAQs
How to find a literary agent
- How to find a literary agent
- How to research a literary agent
- Literary agent etiquette
- How to write a nonfiction book proposal
- How to write a synopsis
- How to interpret rejection letters
- How often to follow up with a literary agent
- How to handle an offer of representation
How to write a query letter
- How to write a query letter
- The basic query template
- The best strategy for sending query letters
- Query Letter Sample #1 – My query letter for Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow, which landed me a literary agent.
- Query Letter Sample #2 – Lisa Brackmann’s query for Rock Paper Tiger
- Query Letter Sample #3 – Emily Conrad’s query for The Boy in the Basement
- Query Letter Sample #4 – Michael Schreiber’s nonfiction query letter
- The key to a good query letter: Summarizing through specificity
- How to weave more voice into a query letter
- How to handle multiple protagonists in a query letter
- How to personalize a query letter
- How to format a query letter
- How to list your publishing credits in a query letter
- How to come up with good comp titles for your book
- Query letter critiques
How to work with literary agents
- Know your rights as an author
- Exclusives and literary agents
- How to work with a literary agent on edits
- How to make the leap from self-publishing to traditional publishing
- How to know when to leave your agent
- How long does it take to sell a novel?
- Day in the life of an agent
How to navigate the publishing process
- The basic terms of publishing contracts
- How an editor at a publisher acquires a book
- How a book goes from acquisitions to bookstore shelves
- Everything writers need to know about book series
- When to submit to publishers without an agent
- Publishing myth: Editors don’t edit
- Editing vs. Copyediting
- The economics of publishing
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Art: Detail of “The Bookshop of Pieter Meijer Warnars” by Johannes Jelgerhuis
