1.)Writing for the Book Publisher: Book publishing, can be a difficult task for the most seasoned of authors, for a unknown, its nearly impossible without help. Like any work, shooting yourself in the foot, by being to eager can seriously set your publication back. Book publishers want a proposal, or a primer if you will. Write your idea down, in an outline form, and expand on it and then find the proper book publisher. Without going into too much detail about finding the right book publisher, first define your audience as your target market. More often than not people write for sometimes years, only to finish and realize there is no market for their work, or its outside the original audience, or a book publisher can‘t be found for the genre. Once you have found your intended book publisher, and you are confident with your edits you may want to contact a literary agent. Agents understand marketing authors to book publishers. Literary Agents shop your work to book publishers for you.

2.)Finding a Agent for a Book Publisher: Literary Agents can be found online, through associations, or in writing forums. Many book publishers will know a good literary agent to recommend. Contacting a book publisher for an agent, may be quickest. Book publishers very rarely accept unsolicited work, so sending a work directly to a publisher, is a sure fire way to waste your time, THEY WONT READ IT. Book Publishers rely on agents to filter work for them. This way book publishers weed out most unmarketable works.

3.) Query Letter - Think Book Publisher: Take your outline, and write a summary to send to a literary agency. Book Publishing can be a difficult nut to crack REMEMBER most people don’t want to read through a 500 page manuscript; they don’t have the time or the patience. Use your summary to grab the agency’s attention. Be descriptive, concise and clear, without being too wordy or long winded. Try not to go longer than a page or two for the query letter for literary agents. Describe your target audience as though you were speaking to a book publisher.

4.) Selecting an Agent For a Book Publisher: Once you have a list of prospective agents, try to look through the literary cannon of published work for each agent. This will help you decide what agent you would be most comfortable with. Once you decide, call every agent who contacted you back. Thank them and tell them you decide to go in a different direction and that you would keep them in mind in the future. DON’T BURN ANY BRIDGES**