What has been your experience with publishers?
I have had little. Most publishers don't accept your work unless it's through an agent. I would like to work in publishing.
Publishers only think about their reputation and are afraid to take any risk. It is not about the book, but it is about their status, earnings and name. The author is not important for publishers and only gets a misery reward.
I like the internet and I publish on it. A book on the internet gets many more readers nowaday than a printed book. It is a revolution in mass communication. I think that publishers will disappear after fifty years and that all books will be published online by the writers themself. Another cheap payment system will be developed on the internet to let writers build a living with their writings. I am researching this also and I have a futuristic businessplan ready for it. Investors who are interested can mail me to get more information.
Even though I came very late to the writing/publishing world (I was 50 years old), the very first piece that I ever submitted to a publisher was accepted and I was paid for it. Then it seemed to "snowball" as I sold several other pieces to anthologies, periodicals and magazines in a surprisingly short time thereafter.
Lately, however, I seem to be in a "dry spell" and nothing that I've submitted in the last year or so has been accepted to be published... I would imagine that writing is like any other creative pursuit that one tries to make a living at -- it goes in "spurts".
Ah, well, I'm editing two books that will be seen by publishers, and eventually published, but other than that, I haven't had to deal with any.
At my young age with very few completed, edited works, I have not had ANY experience with publishers or agents. However it is my goal to produce a piece of writing that is lovely and inspired and fit to be published and shared by the end of my high school years.
Publishers are ONLY interested in making money. Never looking for talent. They can reject a good book only because they THINK, it does not have a market.
The first piece I submitted to the Daily News was published.
I have not turned in my book proposal to the agent requesting. Yet.
Not much success here, have gotten much farther as a screenwriter.
None. When I realised you have to be either 28, an academic or an (in)famous person to get a publishing deal, I did not join the queue.
Making a submission was not an option since I could not run the risk my topic would go walk-about, because in a submission I would have had to reveal the real names (History Channel). Being in Australia has not helped either, because this is too much of an international topic and you could easily end up with a contract that sells 3000 copies here, but that company's partners in other countries might not take it on. Since you no longer own the rights you cannot keep your project alive, and for the royalties of 2,700 copies (10% royalty free for publicity) there was no point. Sure, it could have done better, but if the company does not put in the advertising budget you could have done a lot worse, too. 95% of books that come out do not get a review and die very quickly!
But all these thoughts were quite futile anyway because I am over 28 for one, and publishers only take submissions from accredited agents which are a very secret society.
Like self-released albums have become very acceptable in the music arena, samizdat books are gaining acceptance and ground. You can only work in the parameters that exist.   | | |
I am now in the process of looking for a literary agent. Most publishers do not deal with you directly.
They fail to read what you send. They read the first and last page and fail to take the big picture into consideration. "War Echoes" has a moral message that I think is being over looked. "War Echoes" would make a good movie.
This is a world I have yet to enter.
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I've dealt with some great magazine publishers, so I guess I've been pretty lucky. I did have slow pay on a few articles, but eventually got the money.
The most recent magazine article I sold, I did not speak to the editor once. She sent me an email to tell me she accepted the article and to please send it on a disc. I did so and when I did not hear back within a few weeks, I sent an email to make sure she received it and to see if she could tell me what issue it would appear in. She sent another email with a terse "I got it" with no other mention. A few months went by and I kept checking the newstands to see if my article had been published. Then in September I got a package with a copy of the magazine, but no check. I waited a few weeks and was about to write her and ask about payment when a lonely envelope appeared with my payday in it. So she was an extreme, usually you'll get at least one phone call asking you to change something or get it to the editor a few days quicker or something like that. I don't care how abrupt they are, just as long as I get paid.
I am currently trying to find an agent for a book I wrote and (agent) Susan Zeckendorf asked to see more of it after I sent her a query. Talk about a thrill! I just recently received a polite decline from her, in the form of a handwritten note that says she thought it was amusing but the mystery market is not strong enough right now for her to be sure she could place it. Even the rejection letter impressed me. I'm sure someday I'll meet one of those dreaded, nasty people in the publishing world that we all hear about, but so far my experiences have been pretty good. | | |
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