#how to get published

[intermundia]

this is the single worst way i've ever read to describe an erection, frank herbert

[tea-writes0]

If you are looking to get published and are a beginner writer, then this post is for you. It can be a bit confusing and difficult to know where to start when trying to get started in your career. First, you’d want to know what type of writer you are. This is important because you are going to want to pick the right publishing company, there is a lot of them out there. I recommend, as a beginner, to go to Poets & Writers magazine publishing company site. They have events, contests, you can see other authors they published, obviously you can read the magazine, and you can see if you want to get published by the magazine too. After you pick a company that fits your writing style, for example if you’re a graphic novelist you might want to go to Graphix publishing company. You give them your information, your name or if you have a pseudo name, your email, address if they ask, then wait for 3-5 days to 2 weeks. After that you will get a call back, hopefully, and they will tell you if they reject or accept you. If they reject you don’t take the break too hard, this is very common in a lot of things especially in writing. I suggest thinking outside of the box, try something different maybe, it may be discouraging to get rejected so it's good to get something out rather than nothing. You can choose to take their criticism and apply it to your work or not. If you get accepted well congratulations, you did it man! Now you can print and start promoting your book. Remember writing is about having fun and getting your feelings out or any stories you want to tell, it shouldn’t be a stressful thing.

[blogtey45]

Why Your manuscript probably got rejected | SummitPressPublishers

[strangebiology]

Success is Dependent on Secret Information

A lot of career success depends on you and the work you put into it, as well as luck beyond your control, but sadly, it also depends on secret information, magic words, and stupid little tricks.

That's not fair. I don't like it, but we can help by sharing that secret information--which is the antidote to gate-keeping. That's why I recently wrote this in my Authors of Nonfiction Books in Progress substack:

It can be really disheartening to realize that, when you thought you failed at something because you didn't do well enough, other people had the magic words. For instance, some injustices I've witnessed (that may or may not always be the case, or maybe not anymore!) include:

A good athletic score doesn't get you into a college sport--having a coach or parent talk to the college coach is mandatory

Many school-sponsored scholarships are often not tightly linked to grades, test scores, or financial need, but whether the student said the right words ("I can't afford that") to the right person (presumably some financial office person.)

Apparently, some aspects of some degrees are cheated on by most students (if that's the case, we should tell all students that it's ok to cheat on that so they don't waste their time on something that apparently wasn't important anyway, or worse, fail out just for being ethical.)

Especially related to books: Few people will mention that you can get grants! Not my agent, not my publisher, not the 1 zillion "pros and cons of trad publishing" articles out there mentioned grants (Grant eligibility is a HUGE benefit of trad publishing.) I got more money from grants than my entire book advance!

Let me know what magic words/secret knowledge you've learned, that you wish you knew sooner. Or: the widespread understanding of what information would make a field more fair?

And please share ANBIP with anyone writing, publishing, or seriously about to start writing, a nonfiction non-memoir book, especially if they're interested in the more practical side (I share more about resources and strategy than craft.)

[rafaeldossantos12]

How to get published

We understand some experts might not see themselves as “writers” so we have put together this guide (which is forever evolving) to help you understand what we are looking for when publishing an article.  

You are writing an article to share your knowledge and expertise; it’s not an advert for your business. Readers should read your article and understand you’re an expert in your industry, so that when they have a problem to solve, and you’re an expert in the area they need help with, they will remember you and come to you for assistance.

Please read our Editorial Guidelines below. Following these guidelines will ensure that your article moves efficiently through the process.

[incandescent-creativity]

This post is validating me keeping this tab open in my phone for months and months ahaha

Relevant excerpts:

Transcript of the images below the cut, but the TLDR is basically: definitely hundreds of dollars, potentially up to $1000

Cover design: $860 on average

The average price of a professional book cover design is $860. Over 50% of the cover design collaborations on Reedsy cost between $500 and $1,000. Fantasy and Science Fiction genres tend to be on the higher end, with averages just above $1,000, while Romance and Poetry are usually less expensive, rounding up just above $700.

The range of quotes you may receive from cover designers can vary enormously, depending on a few key factors.

Your designer’s relative experience. A novice book cover designer might charge between $300 and $500 per project.

The style and complexity of the design. An elaborate illustrated cover (like you might see on a Fantasy novel) would cost more than one that involves working with stock images — if only because of the different skills and time requirements. To find out more about why certain styles cost more, take a look at our guide to cover design.

The number of book formats you need. While ebooks only require a front cover, print formats require attention to dimensions as well as a spine and back cover design, which can add to the cost. If you are publishing in multiple formats (perhaps even audiobook), you can expect your designer's quotes to increase in line with the additional work required.

how much does one expect to pay for book cover design? in theory I'll pay anything including with my life

[damonp304]

The cure for Imposter Syndrome | Summit Press Publishers

Why do we experts suffer from Imposter Syndrome, particularly when we want nothing more than to write and publish an expert-positioning book? I can't answer the why, but I can share the cure.

[pallastronomy]

looking for a new piece of xenofiction

ask the creator if their xenofiction is Watership Down or Warrior Cats

they don’t understand

pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is Watership Down and what is Warrior Cats

they laugh and say ‘It’s good xenofiction sir’

look inside

it’s Warrior Cats

[veritablenonsense]

sctir is such a good story if you're obsessed with worldbuilding Implications because yoojin is also Constantly thinking about that stuff. He's just a (previously) regular guy who has to live in this weird urban portal fantasy world so he cares about stuff like tax brackets and zoning laws and fair contract-writing and alternative uses of everyone's crazy supernatural powers. I can't count the number of times I started thinking "wait, couldn't you-" only to have it answered the next sentence. When his internal monologue mentioned dungeon resets being used for public waste disposal i practically cheered

[shelter-wood]

being an ffxiv fanfic writer is hard because you have to remember how to spell shit like merlwyb bloefhiswyn

[tallykale]

a bit of my postcanon vision

i heart people arguing

[shanklin]

“Ford’s the smart twin and Stan’s the creative one.” is a nice statement but also a lie.

Life isn’t that fair. Not to Stan.

No, Ford’s the smart twin AND the creative one. Take one look at his notebook and you’d know immediately how great of an artist and storyteller Ford really is.

All Stan has to show for himself is, as his Ma likes to put it, “personality”. A thing everyone has.

“Having personality” just means people think you're dumb as a brick and hope you won’t understand the insult.

And yet, despite not being the creative one Stan dreams of creating his own comic books. It’s a dream just for himself.

And if he learned anything from his favourite comic book heroes it’s to keep trying and to never give up!

So Stan practices drawing every day and he likes what he sees. His future comic book empire will be amazing!

But when he shows off his pictures all he gets is the usual spiel of “oohs and aahs” and “we need to put this on the fridge!” from his Ma in the fake way adults like to do when they're lying to children.

Ford’s art however gets genuine astonishment.

“He’s better than most adults! We should send it to the papers!”

Ford pictures get put on the fridge. And framed on the walls. And printed in the local newspaper.

Stan's own art looks silly next to Fords. Ugly childish scribbles next to something amazing. Next to art that is actually worth something.

Ashamed, Stan takes his pictures down. No one notices. 

It was a stupid dream anyway. As if Stan could ever do something worthwhile without Ford by his side. 

At least he’ll always have the Stan o’ War.

[blogtey45]

The cure for Imposter Syndrome | Summit Press Publishers

[gollancz]

Delighted to be able to announce the last panels on my last day before maternity leave!

THE AUDIO PANEL

Chris and Jen Sugden, powerhouses behind the hit podcast @victoriocity, will be talking about their show and how they adapted it from audio format to a phenomenal debut novel, HIGH VAULTAGE.

THE DESIGN PANEL

Award-winning Gollancz designers Nick Shah and Rachael Lancaster will take you on a voyage from initial concepts to finished covers, focusing on some of the most gorgeous and iconic books of recent years. (You might recognise some of Rachael's work - she did the HIGH VAULTAGE cover!)

THE CREATIVE WRITING PANEL

This is exclusively available to our Creative Writing ticket-holders, and features Garth Nix, Dhonielle Clayton and Jennifer Delaney discussing their own journeys to publication and beyond, and the tips and tricks that can help you too!

THE BRANDON SANDERSON BOOK CLUB

Whether you’re a long-time lover of the Cosmere or a relative newbie, join our book club hosted by Brandon superfan LibraryOfAViking! The book? YUMI AND THE NIGHTMARE PAINTER.

You have five weeks to get your read on. Go go go!

16th March 2024

Leonardo Royal Hotel, London

Tickets are available now!

That's right baybeeee - ten years after it first launched, Gollanczfest is back and it's bigger than ever!

WHEN?

16th March 2024

Leonardo Royal Hotel, London

Tickets go on sale Friday 6th October at 10am UK time!

Early presale for tickets available exclusively to our newsletter subscribers

WHO?

Our headliner? Only VICTORIA AVEYARD

Other confirmed authors: Joe Abercrombie, Natasha Pulley, Garth Nix, Dhonielle Clayton, Joe Hill, Ben Aaronovitch, @joannechocolat, Aliette de Bodard, Sarah Hawley, @jonnywaistcoat, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson . . . and MANY more

Plus: YOU

PLUS

All tickets come with a goodie bag full of Gollancz goodies work at least £30

VIP tickets are available with access to the green room, priority tickets to panels, and additional goodies

FREE SFF quiz run by the greatest quizmasters (allegedly, this may be a title they've claimed themselves and I cannot verify) Joe Abercrombie and Garth Nix!

We'll be announcing panels soon, but this is going to be a fun, friendly and festive day, full of nerdery, excitement and probably a lot of harried looking Gollancz staff stuffing their faces with sandwiches and trying to find where distracted authors have wandered off to.

PARTY TIME

[smal5504]

1 | THE CHATTERING LACK OF COMMON SENSE

2 | warui kotowa shicha ikenai yo

3 | SUNBEAM LIGHT SHOW FLOWER SEED

4 | DELICIOUS SOUL (latest release!!!)

5 | BRAND NEW CITY

6 | THE GIRL WHO SELLS MISFORTUNE

WELCOME TO THE

BFDIA PIN IMAGININGS SERIES: MASTERPOST!!!

these "pins" are simply stylized versions of the stages of pin's mental trauma in bfdia that take place as the season progresses; they are imaginings!!! each has their own amv (animated music video) WHICH YOU SHOULD REALLY WATCH because its important to understand her oaky this is how i explain yap through arting

and..,.,. blegghhhh,.,. there's always my video essay hyperanalysis presentation of her throughout the whole season,.,..,. but,.,..,.,. this is jus cooler right.,.,..,... /silly

so go go go!!! listen to her!!! if YO U are looking to understand why she is so traumatized and not okay than THIS is the in depth symbolistic artistic beefydie-yay series for YOU, viewer 👍

insert ear shattering fanfare for an outro

[damonp304]

Why Your manuscript probably got rejected | SummitPressPublishers

This video explains why your manuscript was most likely rejected. These are the most common reasons that publishing houses reject manuscripts. Check out this video to learn more.