Traditional Publishing - Day 29 Video Lecture | Become a Writer: Enhance your Writing skills - Communication

everybody welcome back to day 29 of my
author success training video series now
today we're going to be focusing on
traditional publishing I'm giving you
some tips and strategies to help you get
your book traditionally published so
here we go
welcome back everybody its day 29 we're
almost finished with this free video
series and if you're just getting here
there's links below to day one okay
where you can start day one or
yesterday's video game so traditional
publishing if you want to go the
traditional publishing route there's a
couple things that you need to know the
very first thing that you need to know
is be extremely patient okay be
extremely patient because you're going
to get some bruises and get knocked down
a couple times there's tons of stories
out there people that have gone through
the publishing route that took them
forever to get published they scut these
people said no publisher said no so many
times a good example of that as the
Harry Potter okay the Harry Potter
series JK Rowling was turned down like
10 times or more I can't even remember
by publishers and all those publishers
are probably kicking themselves right
now obviously okay so you're going to
get turned down but here are some steps
that you need to do first of all you
need to have a book nine times out of
ten they're going to want to see a
manuscript or they're going to want to
see something I suggest you have the
book done and that's what I've been
teaching you how to get that book
finished over the last 20 some odd days
ok have a manuscript have a rough draft
ready the next thing that you need to do
is you need to get a literary agent okay
a literary agent is going to be the
mediator between you and the publishing
company and they're going to help you
get published okay so you're going to
want to find a literary agent that's
just a rock star and so what you're
going to want to start doing is just
start searching the literary agents and
literary agents in your genre so if
you're writing a thriller find a
literary agent that does thrillers okay
if you're doing a nonfiction book in
marketing find a literary agent that
works with authors that write nonfiction
about marketing okay so you've got to do
a lot of research after you've done your
research then contact these litter
agents now if you want to skip the
literary agent which I don't suggest you
do and a lot of publishing companies
won't work with you without a literary
agent but if you do decide to do that
then go straight to the publishing
company and find the editors and you
have to do the same thing don't go to a
publisher that doesn't print thrillers
if you wrote a thriller because they're
just going to turn you down okay so the
bottom line is you have to do a lot of
research and if you do your research
first then the likelihood of you getting
your book published is a lot higher
because you're going to go straight to
the publishers or litter agents that
want to publish your type of book next
thing is is you're going to get said no
a lot okay people are going to say no a
lot to you you just have to keep moving
on and keep researching keep finding
somebody that will take you on and a
literary agent also is going to help get
you the best deal and the sad thing
about traditional publishing nowadays is
a lot of times they're not even giving
any upfront money they're just going
straight to the publishing process and
then you make a very little royalty now
again a publisher has a lot more tout
and some people just want to be
traditionally published because they
want that recognition which is totally
fine and you can go down that route but
the bottom line is you need to do your
research what I'm going to give you guys
today because you guys have been here
for the last however many days if you
haven't make sure you go back and watch
all the videos I'm going to give you a
free interview that I did with Jeff
gerke who is a publisher and i'm going
to give he lays out the process of
traditional publishing and teaches
exactly the things that you need to do
so under this video there's a link with
the will send you where you can get
access to that interview so i suggest
you go watch that just goes into more
detail than I can do in a short five to
10 minute video here on YouTube so
thanks for watching everybody tomorrow
we're going to talk a little bit more
about marketing your book after you've
got it published what to do now
and then we're going to end this series
so thanks for watching everybody I'll
talk to you tomorrow day 30
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