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	How to Get Published: Secrets from the Inside By: Ferris, Stewart Published By: Summersdale Publishers Ltd. PDF for Digital Editions Price: $7.99 Mobipocket Reader Price: $7.99 Microsoft Reader Price: $7.99 Available to read online in eb20 (what's this?) PDF for Digital EditionsMobipocket ReaderMicrosoft Reader	EBOOK OPTIONS ADD TO CART ADD TO WISHLIST TELL A FRIEND RECEIVE ALERTS
	Everyone has a book in them, they say. Having gone through the process of extracting a masterpiece from your head what happens next? In most cases the book will end up in a desk drawer as a pile of papers or inside a computer. But that's not what you want, is it? You wrote it to get published. You want to see your name in print, to go into bookshops and see your book on the shelves. You want to feel that moment of pride when you see someone on the bus reading your book. The concept that a good book will always find a publisher is outdated and over-simplistic. The truth is that most writers remain unpublished because they pay attention only to the quality of their writing. Publishers are business people. Their job is to make money from selling books. They know that high quality writing alone isn't always enough to make a profitable book, so when choosing which manuscripts to sign up for publication they think about many more elements than just the words on the page. After 15 years in the book industry, Stewart Ferris has identified all of the crucial factors that publishers consider besides good writing. How to Get Published reveals for the first time these inside secrets and provides tactics that any writer can use to create the perfect conditions for their own lucky break to happen. *Why books get accepted *How publishing works *How to find a publisher *What to put in a submission *How to write a sizzling synopsis *10 ways to leapfrog other submissions *Sending multiple submissions *Easily avoidable reasons why books get rejected *16 crucial factors that publishers consider when deciding what to publish *And much more! *Stewart Ferris has published 500 books, rejected 10,000 submissions, and is the author of more than 20 books.

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Getting published is the dream of every unpublished writer. Despite their determination and ambition, however, most writers will remain unpublished because they pay attention only to the quality of the writing in the manuscript itself. That may seem a strange observation to make. Writing is all about words, after all. Words are carefully selected and polished by a writer in order to create a wonderful manuscript. From the author's point of view that manuscript is all that's needed to create a book. Authors think their manuscript is well written, therefore it 'deserves' to find its way into print, and that it probably will do so the moment it falls into the hands of a publisher.

The concept that a good book will find a publisher is outdated and over-simplistic. Writing is just about words, but publishing is not. It's like saying babies come from a man and a woman. Technically yes, they do, but the reality is that a baby comes from going to a bar, blurting out a nervous chat-up line followed by hours of flirtation, weeks of dating, dancing, expensive meals and optional marriage and a large bottle of wine. Publishing involves far more than just printing nice arrangements of words. The quality of an author's writing is an important factor in a publisher's decision to gamble a significant sum of money in signing up a book, but it isn't the whole story.

It's essential to put yourself in a publisher's shoes for a moment and think about what else a publishing decision is based upon. What, apart from the quality of your writing, do you think would influence an editor to give you a contract? I have identified fifteen other crucial factors that a publisher takes into consideration, whether consciously or unconsciously. Can't think of any of them right now other than a fat cash bribe? Then you've picked the right book to help you make that leap from the world of unpaid writers to that exclusive group of people in possession of publishing contracts. I've commissioned five hundred books, rejected ten thousand submissions, and I've had a few books of my own published, so I know all the industry secrets. These secrets are factors that always form part of a publisher's decision-making process, but which new authors never consider. Those secrets, plus other crucial tips and advice on getting published, will be revealed in this book.

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