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Publisher is the person responsible for the act of publishing. This tag is meant to be used with the specifics of publisher tasks, questions, and best practices, while the publishing tag is related to the publishing process itself.
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How to identify whether a publisher is genuine or not?
In non-academic fiction and non-fiction, never pay a publisher. Never pay an agent, either. I strongly recommend you GET an agent, but not one that charges you anything up front. … You should even check any publisher that makes you an offer, find out what they actually have published and how well it did. …
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Will the publisher/agent tell me what to write?
If she gives you advice to follow a formula, it is because she thinks your work doesn't follow a structure she knows can sell, and that a publisher would accept. … I suspect if anybody told you that, what they meant was the publisher wants you to write books for their market in the style they already know sells. …
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How does republishing a chapter of a book benefit its publisher?
And the publisher doesn't need to do anything. So it is free promotion. … I wouldn't be afraid to broach this to your publisher at all, for one chapter. Think of it as a teaser. …
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Is it more expensive to self publish or use a publisher?
Any share the typical agent and publisher take from your book is well worth it, 50% of something is much more valuable than 100% of nothing. … That is not always true, JKR was rejected by every single publisher to whom she sent the first Harry Potter book. Like 20 of them. …
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Do editors rewrite?
I'd also say it is worth seeing what "light editorial" is about.
It might be worth asking what is driving them to change, I'd ask about a few (three) specific changes you see as critical that are rui …
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Is it posssible to find a literary agent if I'm Egyptian but write in English?
I see no reason why not; agents have no bias against foreign writers, they want good stories.
You seem to have a command of English, and you obviously have Internet access. The technical details of …
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Is it acceptable to break the story up into POVs to show how the characters' stories all tie...
The publisher only cares if the reader's will be satisfied enough to recommend the book to others, she wants to make sales to pay her rent. …
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