Daily Excerpt: Publishing for Smarties: Finding a Publisher (Ham) - Introduction
The following excerpt comes from Practices That Work (Thomas Garza). Introduction Are you a new or future author? Confused by all the choices in the publishing business? Afraid of being ripped off? (It happens all too frequently!) Not sure how to take the first step? Not even sure how you want your “offspring” (i.e. your manuscript) to be birthed (i.e. published)? This book is meant for you. It is not another 500-page reference book about a little bit of everything associated with publishing. There are enough books like that; one more is not needed. That said, however, you should certainly add several of those to your resource collection. At the very least, you should read Writer’s Market and subscribe to Writer’s Digest . (Google both; you will find them. Writer’s Market is also available at most public libraries.) This book, unlike most of the books out there on publishing, looks at publishing from the combined point of need of the new author and point of view of t
