My Book

[Roxas-XIII]

Hey, okay... im just putting this up to see if any of you have ideas.

I have written a book and i am leading into sequels and i was wondering if anyone knows of anyway i could publish it. Please do not suggest using the internet because ive had a look and i havnt had luck.

i tried to contact a publisher but they arent publishing fiction.

any ideas?

[Nevermore]

I know you said don't use the internet, but a site called lulu.com seems pretty good.

Still, publishing under an actual company is best for getting your work noticed. Just keep searching for the right firm.

[Roxas-XIII]

okay, thanks. It is hard to find a good, reliable company though : P Ive been trying to figure it out for a good while. The book has been finished for at least 2 months now and i havnt had any luck really. But, ill keep looking.

[FreezePrideIV]

Do it the old fashioned way. Look for a publisher that publishes fiction. Try to look for genre-specific publishers -- if your story is sci-fi, for example, find a sci-fi-centralized publishing company, or at least a company that is looking for sci-fi stories to publish. Print your novel on some nice paper, type up a little cover letter introducing yourself and your novel, and put it in a package along with a self-addressed stamped envelope and send it to the publisher you're interested in. Then you wait and hope for the best. Be sure to include your contact information -- if you hear from them, they're interested. If you don't hear from them, you might want to send them a polite email or phone call to see if they received it, but they're most likely not interested.

Or, you could get an agent to basically do all that stuff for you. This requires paying them with no actual guarantee of getting published, but your chances of getting published will probably be higher if it's an agent with a good reputation/good connections.

Also, there are some not-so-nice publishers out there that try to make a buck by asking you to have your novel professionally edited. Generally they're in cahoots with the editors, asking you to pay a ridiculous sum up-front for the editors to edit your novel, and then when they're done they refuse to publish it anyway. If you get an offer like this, hold onto your money and wait for a not-so-greedy publisher to roll around.

Anyway, this is just from a fellow wanna-get-published to another, so don't take my word as gospel. Read up, get educated, take everything with a grain of salt, but most importantly be patient. We got a lot of competition out there. Here's hopin'.

[Nevermore]

You also should be very careful with contracts. I've known people who wrote a book of a series, then signed a contract to get it published. Only problem is, that contract gave them the rights to the sequels; so, they could just hand your property over to another one of their more well-knwon authors and have it published under their name. Just ask Stephen King, lol.

[Roxas-XIII]

Okay, thanks. This will be very useful information, thank you both.