Comments on: How to Get Published – My Short and Long Answer http://www.adderworld.com/blog1/2010/08/05/how-to-get-published-%e2%80%93-my-short-and-long-answer/ Bryan Hutchinson's thoughts about ADD ADHD Attention Deficit Disorder and other stuff Sun, 06 May 2012 01:22:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: anonymous http://www.adderworld.com/blog1/2010/08/05/how-to-get-published-%e2%80%93-my-short-and-long-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-48925 anonymous Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:26:07 +0000 http://www.adderworld.com/blog1/?p=3911#comment-48925 Thank you for all of this wonderful information. I was looking to write a book to hopefully quit my current career and establish a new one doing what I absolutely love. I am not shaken too much but do appreciate the new knowledge. I will be a little cautious in my thinking now - nothing is a "get rich quick" method, unfortunatley as I had naively hoped.... 8D I do hope that I can one day make a career writing novels, but we'll see. Thanks again! Thank you for all of this wonderful information. I was looking to write a book to hopefully quit my current career and establish a new one doing what I absolutely love. I am not shaken too much but do appreciate the new knowledge. I will be a little cautious in my thinking now – nothing is a “get rich quick” method, unfortunatley as I had naively hoped…. 8D
I do hope that I can one day make a career writing novels, but we’ll see.

Thanks again!

]]> By: Riri http://www.adderworld.com/blog1/2010/08/05/how-to-get-published-%e2%80%93-my-short-and-long-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-38752 Riri Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:25:21 +0000 http://www.adderworld.com/blog1/?p=3911#comment-38752 Bryan, First, I'd like to add one more thing to the short answer: don't give up. Yes, a lot of famous and influential writers got rejection at their first attempt. It's almost like an unavoidable law of nature that you must be rejected first before it is finally published. Now, for the long answer. I've been taking a long distance writing course with an England-based writing school. I got some good advice about marketing your book. While it is true that publishers are swarmed with thousands of queries each week, but they should be able to handle it. Once they started the company, they've known what they'd get into. While it is true that getting your book published is like winning a lottery, but publishing does not work like picking a lottery. With that said, they do not merely pick one query in random order every week and decide to publish it. No. They do read your letter and sample of your work and make some considerations. When your writing is not accepted chances are because they are not into you, for some reasons. With that said, the rules of the game still apply, and as a writer you need to understand and master these rules so you can win. One thing that a writer needs to master is the art of selling his work. It consists of how to make a business-like letter and how to present your work so it grabs the publisher's attention at the first sight. Another step is to do market analysis. You can do this step by searching for the publisher that would accept the genre of your work. You will not be succeeded, for instance, to seel your ADD book to a publisher who specialises in romance. I've also learned something about literary agent. They will represent your work and help you sell your work to the publisher. I guess it will be a great help, especially for beginner writer. If you are not sure if your work is good and worth-selling, you can also find a reviewer (hmmm...I don't know if there's an official name for it). For instance, in The Writers' Bureau, the course with which I take lesson, some tutors accept the job as a reviewer. They will help you see what it takes so your work has a better chance to be published, probably helps refine your letter of query as well. That's a bit of tips that I know. I hope it helps. But the tips I give you here is for traditional publishing. And another comment for Bryan's comment on the writing work itself.....aaaaaarrrrrggghhh! You nailed it! You are absolutely right about thingking about writing and actual writing work. I still can't finish the 1500-word article for my writing assignment. I guess I envisage the fear of writing, but that's another story. I need help! Riri Bryan,

First, I’d like to add one more thing to the short answer: don’t give up. Yes, a lot of famous and influential writers got rejection at their first attempt. It’s almost like an unavoidable law of nature that you must be rejected first before it is finally published.

Now, for the long answer. I’ve been taking a long distance writing course with an England-based writing school. I got some good advice about marketing your book. While it is true that publishers are swarmed with thousands of queries each week, but they should be able to handle it. Once they started the company, they’ve known what they’d get into. While it is true that getting your book published is like winning a lottery, but publishing does not work like picking a lottery. With that said, they do not merely pick one query in random order every week and decide to publish it. No. They do read your letter and sample of your work and make some considerations. When your writing is not accepted chances are because they are not into you, for some reasons.

With that said, the rules of the game still apply, and as a writer you need to understand and master these rules so you can win. One thing that a writer needs to master is the art of selling his work. It consists of how to make a business-like letter and how to present your work so it grabs the publisher’s attention at the first sight.

Another step is to do market analysis. You can do this step by searching for the publisher that would accept the genre of your work. You will not be succeeded, for instance, to seel your ADD book to a publisher who specialises in romance.

I’ve also learned something about literary agent. They will represent your work and help you sell your work to the publisher. I guess it will be a great help, especially for beginner writer.

If you are not sure if your work is good and worth-selling, you can also find a reviewer (hmmm…I don’t know if there’s an official name for it). For instance, in The Writers’ Bureau, the course with which I take lesson, some tutors accept the job as a reviewer. They will help you see what it takes so your work has a better chance to be published, probably helps refine your letter of query as well.

That’s a bit of tips that I know. I hope it helps. But the tips I give you here is for traditional publishing.

And another comment for Bryan’s comment on the writing work itself…..aaaaaarrrrrggghhh! You nailed it! You are absolutely right about thingking about writing and actual writing work. I still can’t finish the 1500-word article for my writing assignment. I guess I envisage the fear of writing, but that’s another story. I need help!

Riri

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