"Required reading" for aspiring authors and published writers alike, an up-to-date guide on how to navigate the publishing marketplace like a pro (Writer's Digest).
How to Be Your Own Literary Agent takes the mystery out of book publishing for any writer, published or not. Richard Curtis -- a top literary agent for more than thirty years -- provides a comprehensive practical overview of the publishing process, from submissions to contract negotiations to subsidiary rights to marketing, publicity, and beyond. He also gives away trade secrets and invaluable wisdom -- candid advice that can be found nowhere else.
Now completely revised and expanded, How to Be Your Own Literary Agent is essential reading for all writers.
- Big publishers, small publishers, self-publishers, e-publishers: how to keep up in a rapidly changing business
- The new breed of busy literary editors: how to find them and know what they're looking for
- What the electronic revolution means to you, and how to take advantage of it
- How to know your "publishing" rights and negotiate effectively
- How to have a say in your book's design, jacket, and promotion
- How book chains and superstores have altered publishing -- and what that means for you
