Pitching Your Book without an Agent
A couple of weeks ago, we blogged about whether you need a literary agent to get a book deal. Let’s say you decide you want to pitch publishers directly.
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Making the Most of Your Writer’s Festival Experience
Fall is Festival season in the publishing community. Writers, book lovers, publishers and agents come out in droves to attend events, workshops and parties in celebration of the book. We encourage aspiring and emerging writers to attend writer’s festivals and conferences as a part of their learning and networking process while they’re developing their writing careers.
Do You Need a Literary Agent to Get a Book Deal?
The benefits of having a literary agent are significant: they explain the publishing world to you, shape your book ideas and proposals, negotiate your deals and parse your contracts, and open doors to publishers that you might not be able to access yourself, among other things.
Long Live the Author-Entrepreneur
Since self-publishing became a common practice, we’ve begun to see authors routinely referred to as entrepreneurs, and the act of publishing described as an entrepreneurial endeavour. We wholeheartedly agree with these comparisons, but we feel they’re not new.
How to Self Publish: Interview with Geoffrey X Lane
Page Two principals Jesse Finkelstein and Trena White are the latest guests to speak about self publishing on ProSpeak, an online professional speakers series curated and hosted by Geoffrey X Lane.
Dr. Daniel Jones’ Emotional Promiscuity Sold to Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press United States senior editor Abby Gross has acquired world English rights, excluding Canada, to Emotional Promiscuity: The Science of Serial Romance, by Dr. Daniel Jones, the world’s leading researcher into why some people tend to fall in love fast, easily, and often.
Hot Thai Kitchen by Palin Chongchitnant Now Available for Pre-Order
Copies of the beautiful forthcoming cookbook, Hot Thai Kitchen, by Page Two agency client Palin Chongchitnant, are now available for pre-order through Amazon.com or the book’s publisher Penguin Random House.
Guidelines for Crowdfunding a Book
Last year Canadian poet and spoken word artist Shane Koyczan aimed to raise $15,000 on Kickstarter to fund his next poetry book. He ended up raising over $90,000. When it works, as it did for him, crowdfunding is a great way to cover the costs of editing, design, website development, and other costs associated with self-publishing.
Kirkus Interviews Page Two Principal
Kirkus Reviews interviewed Page Two principal Trena White about industry trends and what makes her work unique for its “Word on the Street” series. Read the full Q&A here.
Preserving Legacy: Publishing for Posterity
This week marks the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the storm that devastated the historic city of New Orleans and surrounding areas of the Gulf Coast. In the midst of many retrospective books, articles, and opinion pieces that are appearing in news media around the world, an elegant book of essays and photographs is being released, which captures some of the most moving accounts of the storm’s aftermath we’ve seen so far.
Greystone Acquires Limitless, by Louise Green
Associate publisher Nancy Flight of Greystone Books has acquired world all-language rights to Louise Green’s Limitless, a fitness book for plus-size women that makes it clear you don’t need to be slim to be fit.
Misconceptions Writers Have of Literary Agents
We’ve noticed newer authors often don’t quite understand the role of a literary agent. So we asked some of our colleagues at Transatlantic Agency to debunk some of the myths they’ve noticed writers have of literary agents.
