tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post9194360864189943104..comments2024-03-29T07:43:01.003+00:00Comments on Help! I Need a Publisher!: Seven steps to publicationNicola Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12189894289540344094noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-23183005761122013262012-03-22T08:08:50.623+00:002012-03-22T08:08:50.623+00:00Perfectly understandable. You've had a long ha...Perfectly understandable. You've had a long hard day.p.d.r. lindsay the authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531238218297360461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-36380233069458581842012-03-22T07:17:50.937+00:002012-03-22T07:17:50.937+00:00Gosh, no, I *know* you're not a troll! You'...Gosh, no, I *know* you're not a troll! You're serious and sensible and were only expressing understandable frustration. I didn't fee; you were getting at me at all, honestly. My comment was the result of quite a bit of exhaustion and fedupedness of various sorts and feeling that I'm saying the same things over and over. I think writers want a magi wand - I know I do!<br /><br />Nicola Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12189894289540344094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-30917169994998776912012-03-22T07:13:18.845+00:002012-03-22T07:13:18.845+00:00I'm sorry you felt 'got at' and no, I&...I'm sorry you felt 'got at' and no, I'm not a troll.<br /><br />Nor did I mean that you dismissed the idea of e-publishing.<br /><br />And I do understand that: 'Each publisher should know what he wants and what he can sell.'<br /><br />It's just that I'm beginning to feel that there is something more than market forces needed in the publishing world and wish I p.d.r. lindsay the authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531238218297360461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-9235611794479565472012-03-21T22:39:27.893+00:002012-03-21T22:39:27.893+00:00pdr Lindsay - please excuse brevity - I'm just...pdr Lindsay - please excuse brevity - I'm just back from events and have very little time or energy. Yes, I've also blogged about the possibilities of self-publishing. Positively. And done it myself, so how could I dismiss that idea?<br /><br />Writers must understand properly the markets for their books. They must.<br /><br />You want to know about being dropped? I can tell you about Nicola Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12189894289540344094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-82912245618807909492012-03-21T22:21:53.441+00:002012-03-21T22:21:53.441+00:00'I've never said a book will be published ...'I've never said a book will be published if it's good enough. In fact I've blogged against the perseverance mantra.'<br /><br />My apologies, I was led to believe that you did.<br /><br />You mention that a book must be salable. That's another of my bugbears. What is salable in the mind of one agent/person/editor is not in another. I have come to be sceptical about agent/p.d.r. lindsay the authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531238218297360461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-2593895754548963932012-03-21T08:49:43.048+00:002012-03-21T08:49:43.048+00:00Pdr Lindsay - I've never said a book will be p...Pdr Lindsay - I've never said a book will be published if it's good enough. In fact I've blogged against the perseverance mantra. It's both more complicated and simpler than that. (Am in hotel on phone so can't explain fully.) on the subj of the numbers of submissions - faulty stats: most of those subs can be dismissed immediately for reasons of blatant unsuitability. The Nicola Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12189894289540344094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-43266087707998637722012-03-21T08:26:29.774+00:002012-03-21T08:26:29.774+00:00I think I join Sally here. Agents have told me the...I think I join Sally here. Agents have told me their agencies receive 6-8,000 query submissions a year, and they only take on 1 or 2 new people a year. An agent is usually the gateway to the big traditional publishers. So just logical arithmetic seems to preclude a lot of well written books getting anywhere. <br /><br />Granted there are far too many would-be writers seeking publication but I p.d.r. lindsay the authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531238218297360461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-78577435206784345782012-03-16T19:47:42.892+00:002012-03-16T19:47:42.892+00:00Sally - YOU are good enough and I have a book on m...Sally - YOU are good enough and I have a book on my bookshelf which proves it. Cat said it - perserverance and a spot of self-belief wouldn't go amiss. <br /><br />Thanks Nicola for good advice, well put. As always.Kath McGurlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02526923882402757423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-65455331317678479262012-03-16T13:45:26.542+00:002012-03-16T13:45:26.542+00:00All absolutely true. I thought I'd done all th...All absolutely true. I thought I'd done all that but still the rejections come rolling in... <br /><br />Sometimes one has to face the facts that maybe one is just not good enough.Sally Zigmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07520579251842006765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-20273448545211930102012-03-16T11:48:58.549+00:002012-03-16T11:48:58.549+00:00Oh I truly love coming here. I always learn wonder...Oh I truly love coming here. I always learn wonderful tips that I will use well I hope.<br />I love when your sense of humour came through at the end of a sounds like very long tiring day.<br />I would love to hear your lectures.<br />Thank you. BButtons Thoughtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029439906543077861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-3473557901382886662012-03-16T11:12:28.766+00:002012-03-16T11:12:28.766+00:00I really enjoy your common sense approach. No magi...I really enjoy your common sense approach. No magic, no skipping past essential steps, just sound, practical, methodical advice. Thank you.Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02189348909598343019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-63785052986886633872012-03-16T10:23:23.154+00:002012-03-16T10:23:23.154+00:00Sometimes I have to remind myself that, at the beg...Sometimes I have to remind myself that, at the beginning of the writing journey, I asked stupid questions. But not in public - I googled them. Read books (including Carole Blake's). And I did go to a 'getting published' workshop and took notes. <br /><br />Maybe what he was really asking was 'how will you help me break the rules and get my wonderful book published?' <br /><br JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-58401825251010370292012-03-16T09:50:20.241+00:002012-03-16T09:50:20.241+00:00I think step one is vitally important, and yet I s...I think step one is vitally important, and yet I see beginner authors impatient to be at steps 3 and 4 all the time.<br /><br />Write the book first.<br />Worry about all the other steps later.Ebony McKenna.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02724727996270658767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-7613437581496228062012-03-16T09:25:46.814+00:002012-03-16T09:25:46.814+00:00Cat - well, clearly, if you don't keep sending...Cat - well, clearly, if you don't keep sending it out (persisting) it's not going to get published, but, as you know, persistence is not hepful on its own.Nicola Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12189894289540344094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-47615618442803223002012-03-16T07:42:53.308+00:002012-03-16T07:42:53.308+00:00And, if you really and truly believe in it (and th...And, if you really and truly believe in it (and think it is really and truly the best you can do), persist?catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-5635222043355429372012-03-16T07:39:05.153+00:002012-03-16T07:39:05.153+00:00Common sense, succinctly put and all you need to k...Common sense, succinctly put and all you need to know.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10941954594603643520noreply@blogger.com