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    How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published
    How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published
    How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published
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    How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published

    By Gini Graham Scott

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    How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published is about how to successfully write, pitch a book, write a query letter, promote a book, and build a platform. Many of these chapters started off as answers to questions from clients or prospective clients of The Publishing Connection, a service that connects writers to publishers and agents. Then, I began thinking about all the steps involved from writing a book to getting published.

    This is the first is a series of books directed to writers, primarily those new to pitching books and getting published, although previously published writers can benefit from some chapters, too.

    The book is divided into five parts:
    - Writing Your Book: how to write your book, including increasing your creativity, looking to your personal experiences for ideas, expanding blogs or articles into books, and editing and polishing your book;
    - Pitching Your Book: how to determine whether to find a publisher or agent or self-publish, the pros and cons of working with a small or large publisher, and how to choose what publisher or agent to work with;
    - Sending Query Letters: how to write a good query letter to interest an agent, publisher, of producer in your book or script;
    - Promoting Your Book: how to build your platform and promote your book;
    - Problems with Publishers: how to deal with problem publishers who don’t pay you.

    The chapters in this book are drawn from my over 30 years of experience in writing, pitching, promoting, and publishing books for myself and for clients; writing and sending out queries to pitch books and scripts for over 1000 clients; and working with dozens of publishers, agents, and film producers along the way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGini Graham Scott
    Release dateJun 23, 2015
    ISBN9781310751349
    How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published
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    Gini Graham Scott

    Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., CEO of Changemakers Publishing and Writing, is an internationally known writer, speaker, and workshop leader. She has published over 50 books with major publishers on various topics and has written over 3 dozen children's books. Her published children's books include Katy's Bow, Scratches, The Crazy Critters First Visit, and Where's the Avocado? published by Black Rose Writing. She has published 8 children's books through her company Changemakers Kids and is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She does workshops on self-publishing and creativity. She also helps clients write books as a ghostwriter and self-publish or find publishers and agents. Her websites are www.changemakerspublishgandwriting.com and www.ginigrahamscott.com.

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      How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published - Gini Graham Scott

      How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published

      Tips and Techniques from the Publishers, Agents and Films Blog for Writers

      By Gini Graham Scott

      Changemakers Publishing & Writing

      3527 Mt. Diablo Blvd., #273 . Lafayette, CA 94549

      www.changemakerspublishingandwriting.com

      How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published

      Published by Gini Graham Scott at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2015 by Gini Graham Scott

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Table of Contents

      About the Author

      Introduction

      Part I: Writing Your Book

      Chapter 1: Increasing Your Creativity to Improve Your Writing

      Chapter 2: How to Turn Your Experiences into Something You Can Get Published

      Chapter 3: Turning Your Blogs into a Book or Your Book into Blogs

      Chapter 4: Editing and Polishing Your Letter, Proposal, or Manuscript

      Part II: Pitching Your Book

      Chapter 5: Should You Find a Publisher or an Agent?

      Chapter 6: Should You Find a Publisher or Self-Publish?

      Chapter 7: The Pros and Cons of Working with a Small or Large Publisher

      Chapter 8: Deciding What Publisher or Agent to Work with When Both are Interested

      Chapter 9: Deciding What Agent to Work With

      Chapter 10: Deciding What Publisher to Work With

      Part III: Sending Query Letters

      Chapter 11: Three Guidelines for Writing a Good Query Letter to Book Publishers and Agents

      Chapter 12: What to Say in Your Query Letter for a Novel or Script

      Part IV: Promoting Your Book

      Chapter 13: Turning Your Book into a Series of Blogs

      Chapter 14: Using a Crowdfunding Campaign to Promote Books and Films and Find Publishers and Producers

      Part V: Problems with Publishers

      Chapter 15: Getting Paid for Your Work When Publishers or Other Companies Don't Pay You

      About the Author

      Gini Graham Scott has published over 50 books with mainstream publishers, focusing on social trends, work and business relationships, and personal and professional development. Some of these books include The Very Next New Thing, The Talk Show Revolution, The Privacy Revolution. The Battle for Personal Privacy, and Fantasy Worlds.

      She has gained extensive media interest for previous books, including appearances on Good Morning America, Oprah, Montel Williams, CNN, and hundreds of radio interviews. She has frequently been quoted by the media and has set up websites to promote her most recent books, featured at www.ginigrahamscott.com and www.changemakerspublishingandwriting.com. As of this writing, she has about 100,000 listings in Google Search Results.

      She has become a regular Huffington Post blogger since December 2012, and has a Facebook page featuring her books and films at www.facebook.com/changemakerspublishing.

      She has written, produced, and sometimes directed over 60 short videos, which are featured on her Changemakers Productions website at www.changemakersproductions.com and on YouTube at www.youtube.com/changemakersprod.

      Her screenplays, mostly in the drama, crime, legal thriller, and sci-fi genres, include several that consider the social implications of science and technological breakthroughs and changes in society, including The New Child, New Identity, Dead No More, Tax Revolt, and The Suicide Party. All of these are in development with trailers, business plans, and interested directors and talent.

      She has a PhD in sociology from U.C. Berkeley and MAs in anthropology, pop culture and lifestyles, recreation and tourism, and organizational/consumer/audience behavior from Cal State, East Bay. She is getting an MA in communications in June 2016.

      She is also the Creative Director of Publishers, Agents and Films (www.publishersagentsandfilms.com), a service which connections writers to publishers, agents, and the film industry.

      Her feature film, SUICIDE PARTY: SAVE DAVE, which she wrote and executive produced, is being released in the summer of 2015. Details are at www.suicidepartyfilm.com.

      Introduction

      This book began as a series of blogs for The Publishing Connection about how to successfully write, strategize how to pitch a book, write a query letter, promote a book, and build a platform. Many of these blogs started off as answers to questions from clients or prospective clients, and then I began thinking about all the steps involved from writing a book to getting published.

      The result is the first is a series of books directed to writers, primarily those new to pitching books and getting published, although previously published writers can benefit from some chapters, too.

      The book is divided into five parts:

      - Writing Your Book: how to write your book, including increasing

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