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What are typical response rates to non-fiction queries?
I've begun sending out queries to agents for my recently completed non-fiction manuscript.
A decade ago, I sent out queries frequently, for children's books, directly to publishers. After a while, ...
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How can I get reader profiles? [closed]
How can I get a reader profile for a publishing category i.e. criminal justice, social justice?
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What is the Normal Process for Gathering Permissions for Quotation Collections
I am contemplating gathering a collection of quotations from a single writer, similar to The Quotable [C.S.] Lewis by Wayne Martindale [Tyndale].
Most of the writers works remain under copyright, ...
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Where can I find sales numbers for books?
I'm a writer, working on a non-fiction book proposal. Finding public, free sales numbers for comparable titles is nearly impossible. BookScan is a subscriber service run by Nielsen. "Above the ...
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How do you write a fiction or non-fiction query letter to an editor?
What do you put in the letter? What if you have no experience, or only very limited experience. Should you write about yourself in the third or first person when explaining your experience?
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