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I’ve been on both sides of this (published author and publisher), so I know it can be frustrating. Most publishers only reply (if they even reply) with canned rejections that give you no specific reason.So, from my years in the business knowing many publishers, here are many reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of your manuscript or you as a person:The publisher is a bad fit. For some reason, authors insist on sending their proposals to publishers that don’t publish that kind of work! I’ve heard this from so many publishers and have experienced it myself. Authors seem to think the “shotgun” approach is better when, in fact, it’s just wasting everyone’s time. Don’t do it. Research your prospects and target/approach accordingly.Your proposal is terrible. Your manuscript may be great, but that won’t matter if your proposal isn’t. Even if you’ve submitted your entire manuscript, or even jus some sample chapters, your proposal still speaks to your ability as an author to promote and communicate your work. It’s like a bad salesperson with a great product; it doesn’t matter. Your proposal must be as good as you can make it. No excuses. If you don’t know what that means, then learn. There are plenty of books, websites, articles, and blog posts on what makes a good book proposal. Lack of knowledge is no longer an excuse.Your cover letter is terrible. Everything I just wrote for proposals, duplicate here for cover letters.Your marketing plan is lacking. This is part of your proposal, but even if your proposal is otherwise great, a poor marketing plan (or none at all) will kill your manuscript’s chances. Again, no excuses. There are plenty of resources for learning how to write this and what to include. The publisher wants to know that you understand your target market (readership) and know how to reach them. The publisher might have five, ten, dozens, or hundreds of other titles to promote—you only have one (for now). Your publisher will support you, but you are the one responsible for the lion’s share of promotions. Aside from the publisher having many other titles besides yours, no one really cares who the publisher is. They want to hear from the author. When was the last time you saw a publisher interviewed on TV? Or appearing at a book store? The author is the marketing focal point, so your marketing plan had better reflect that you know how to fulfill this role. If you don’t, then learn.The publisher’s budget is shot. This is a reason that happens more than you might think. Whether a large corporate conglomerate publisher, a mid-size indie, or a small niche publisher, all are dealing with limited resources and capital. If your book proposal is utterly irresistible, then any relevant publisher would do everything to slot you into their schedule — but 99.9% of proposals don’t fall into this category. So, your manuscript might be perfectly publishable, but I just don’t have room in my budget.Your proposal is out of season. Many publishers, certainly larger ones and the industry as a whole, work in seasons. As a result, their books are geared toward certain times of the year, and your proposal just may not fit well with where they are. Of course, they could say to you, “Hey, we like your proposal, but we need to put it onto our 2020 calendar”… but they know most authors won't do that. So, you’re at the mercy of two forces — budget and calendar. It’s like fundraising in the nonprofit world or bids in the government-contractor world; timing is everything.Your idea is stale. Your prose may be brilliant and delightful, but if you’re proposing the millionth Twilight rehash in 2018, then your idea is simply stale. Your only choice is to revamp it (pun intended) or put it on the shelf for about a decade until it can be new again.Yours is the 15th proposal of its kind this week. Similar to the last point above, ideas tend to happen in clusters. Many men essentially invented the automobile at the same time on different continents in the late 19th century. Whether it’s zeitgeist, kismet, or happenstance, human beings have a remarkable ability to come up with the same ideas at the same time, by coincidence. As an example, within a month, I received a proposal for a children’s book featuring a three-legged dog from two different authors on opposite sides of the United States. I accepted the first, and what do you think I told the second? Other than keeping tabs on publishing industry trends, there’s not much you can do about this. You may have — in 100% good faith — come up with your three-legged vampire dog novel idea, but it could be the third one I’ve seen this month.You seem (or clearly are) desperate. No one likes desperate people, in romance or business. And publishing is something of both. A desperate author will inevitably be a needy author, and publishers hate needy authors. Our job is not to stoke your ego. Our job is not to fix the wrongs of your childhood. Our job is not to make you whole after your divorce. Our job is not to save you from financial ruin. Our job, if we choose to accept it, is to take a flying leap of faith in you and your book… to put our whole heart behind it… to put our lacking resources behind it… and to hopefully make the world a better place as a result. We absolutely do want to have a great relationship with you, but we can’t fix you. Your book is a project, but you aren’t.The publisher can’t sell your book in such a way that makes business sense. There are incredibly niche interests out there (bat breeding might be one), and I love that humanity offers something for everyone. But your book proposal on best bat-breeding practices is probably just a little too narrow for most publishers. There may be a publisher out there for it, but keep looking. Or it could very well be that you’re better off self-publishing and selling directly to your niche audience. There’s no shame in that.You’re impolitely persistent or outright rude. I haven’t run into this often, but some authors apparently feel entitled. Their book is the modern equivalent of the tablets that Moses held containing the Ten Commandments. Um… no. If you truly feel you have a great book proposal and know the publisher is a 100% perfect fit, there’s nothing wrong with polite persistence. My very first book deal was very much the result of polite persistence, in part because I had no idea what I was doing. But I at least knew enough to be polite about it. To risk contradiction or seeming paradoxical, publishers very much respect an author’s tenacity and drive — precisely because these are traits that help sell books! But it absolutely must be with politeness and professionalism at all times, and it absolutely must be a publisher that’s the right fit for your book.You didn’t follow the publisher’s requirements. I won’t go into all the possibilities, but publishers have requirements for submissions for a reason (or many reasons). Please follow them! They aren’t capricious! (Well, not always.) When you seek out prospective publishers in the new Writer’s Market guide, for example, follow their listed requirements. The requirements may be for very good business reasons or they may be to simply see if you can follow directions (or both) — but whatever the case, your only hope is to follow them letter for letter. If you don’t like a publisher’s requirements, then don’t submit to them. Chances are, that’s a sign that you and the publisher aren’t a good fit anyhow.Okay… there are just some of the many reasons to help you see how your best efforts can be rebuffed by seemingly uncaring publishers, but for perfectly fair and good reasons that have nothing to do with you or your writing ability. This isn’t meant to be an exhaustive list, but to give you a glimpse of the other side and to know it isn’t personal.And yes, there probably are a few uncaring, disgruntled, past-their-prime publishers (or acquisitions editors) out there who should retire. But most of us genuinely love publishing, books, and all things about it. We love authors. We love your heart. Many of us are also authors. We know it’s not easy. But in the end, we have our part to play and business to run. You have to do your part, and we have to do ours. And hopefully, they can meet sometimes for the good of both. But the simple fact is that we can’t accept every manuscript that comes our way. Period. Not even close. So rejection is part of the business, as it is with any art or enterprise. Please know that. And then please continue.As others will certainly point out in their answers, every author — and I mean every author — has had to deal with rejection, and usually many times over. From Ernest Hemingway to Gertude Stein to Stephen King to J.K. Rowling to Jack Canfield to Tim Ferriss, they have all submitted to many dozens of publishers in the pursuit of their goals and dreams. You can do the same.

Ultimately, you have to consider the exact same things as you would for any other business venture - and that’s what publishing a book is: a business venture:1. Time.2. Money.Considering the first issue, time, you have to decide when you want your book to be published. Is this a long-term project, and will the information be relevant four (or more) years from now?If your work is ready to go today, and you choose to go through a traditional publisher, your work won’t see print for years.First, you have to find a literary agent. This can take months and months. Years, even. Once you’ve compiled a list of agents, vetted them, written The Query Letter To End All Query Letters, and papered the literary agent world with them, you wait. You wait until the agent(s) get back to you. Maybe some do. Once you’ve corresponded back and forth for a few months, you and the agent decide you can work together. You sign on with them, you give them a copy of your manuscript, and they're off to the publisher with your work!Your new agent isn’t going to sell your work, he’s going to 'hip-pocket' it. He'll take your work as well as works by other newbie authors whenever he meets with publishers. He presents the work that will get him the most money (not your work). If the publisher bites, your agent may mention that he's got a work done by you that he'd like to work into the deal. This might work, but it probably won't. The only time your work will probably see the light of day is if the publisher rejects the agent's other works, and then asks the agent, "what else you got?” At which time your work - his 'Hail Mary' play - gets presented. This publisher buys the work.You’re now probably two years into the publishing process, and your work has been picked up by a publisher!Know what you’re going to do now? You’re going to wait. Why? Because the publisher isn't going to publish your work any time soon. They'll assign it to a newbie nothing who will start prepping your work. You'll get assigned an editor, someone will start working on cover art, and you'll get notes about rewriting parts of the book. When the editor is satisfied, you move up the ladder to the next rung. And then the next. And then the next. In awhile, you're ready for publication, and they schedule your book to be printed.Three years have gone by. Once the publisher has printed your books, they’ll be scheduled for release.You’re probably only eight months from release, but the day you get your books on store shelves is fast approaching. So … you wait.When the Big Day arrives, and your book is in bookstores - having been lumped in with a bunch of other books by nobodies and a sure-fire best seller- the best seller gets put on a table right inside the front door where everyone can see it and buy it. Your book will be put, spine out, on a shelf somewhere. It's probably even misfiled. But it on bookstore shelves!Now, four months go by.Your book is returned to the publisher for refund, and it's put in a box in a warehouse to serve as a condominium for silverfish until it's sold a scrap paper to a recycler. This will take a few years, because you've signed the rights over to the publisher.Congratulations, you’ve been published by a traditional legacy dinosaur publisher. Your book was changed without your consent, the cover designed by committee and created by the lowest paid intern, you got no marketing, received virtually no advance, and spent just about four years waiting for your book to be sold for four months to … nobody.More than likely, sales didn’t reach the advance, so you receive nothing in the way of royalties.Had you indie-published your book, your book would have been available in three days from the time you submitted it. Your book would have been for sale during that entire four years, and well beyond that tiny little timeframe.So time-wise, it makes more sense to indie publish if you want to see your book in print before you reach retirement age.Now, let’s talk money.If you go with a traditional dinosaur publisher and their royalty model, you’ll make about 14.5% in royalties for every sale. Let’s say - just for giggles - you convince a publisher to do a print run of 10,000 books and they all sell out (obviously, this is fantasy; your print run will be much shorter, and won’t come anywhere near selling out). On a $9.99 book, you’ll have made $14,400.If you followed an indie-publishing model, and sold 10,000 books at $9.99 with a royalty rate of 70% you’d make $69,900. Because you’re an astute business person who approaches publishing as a business and not an emotional bit of silliness, you put out $2K upfront to make your product look good. Subtract that amount from the bottom line, and you'll have made $67,900.So let’s bottom line it: If you go through a dinosaur traditional publisher, it will cost you four years of your life and $53,500 in royalties. If you don’t mind losing all that time and don’t care about money, then go with a legacy dinosaur. If, on the other hand, you kinda like having your book(s) available forever, and really like the idea that you’re going to make a whole lot more money forever, then you should indie publish your work.To correct some misconceptions:You don’t need to order ANY physical copies of your dead-tree physical book. So you don’t need to “be careful” about not ordering too many.The misconception that an author doesn’t have to “put any money out” by going through a publisher is common. While - technically - it’s true, the author will actually lose about 55% in royalties, and won’t receive any great benefit going down this route. They do get to lose control of their manuscript, though.Going through a traditional publishing house - even a “reasonably-sized” one will absolutely NOT get an author any ‘expert’ publishing services, a team (of any size) working on their book, or any advance of any size greater than “meager.”An indie author doesn’t have to bear the costs of publication unless they make a huge mistake and sign up with some vanity press somewhere. Going through the Holy Trinity of Indie-Publishing (Kindle Direct Publishing, Smashwords, and Createspace) will cost an author nothing.Those who council against creating dead-tree books as an indie do not understand the indie publishing business, and their advice can be safely dismissed. The largest retailer of books and eBooks - Amazon - also owns Createspace, which is one of the largest producers of physical books. Createspace is a print on demand (POD) publisher that doesn’t require authors to by more than a single proof copy of a book. You can’t end up with “cartons of unsold books” by ordering a single proof copy of a book. Welcome to the 21st century, and indie publishing!Smaller publishers can - and do - provide “proper editing.” Why? Because they use the same indie editors that indie authors do. As an indie author, you have access to an entire industry chock full o’ professionals who design, edit, layout, and produce books and ebooks for publishers. They’re all indie contractors; they work for whoever pays them.“Prestigious publishers” will not promote your book; you’re a newbie writer. They won’t even market it. You want to do a book signing? They won’t sponsor it or pay you for the gas you spend driving yourself to the bookstore.“name” reviewers won’t write about your book.There is no “apparatus of the publishing industry” that will in any way promote your book. Period.The question was asked by an answerer: “Please try and name one title that was originally self-published and became a hit, or was critically acclaimed”…Okay: David Chilton - The Wealthy Barber; Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn; James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy; John Grisham - A Time to Kill; L. Ron Hubbard - Dianetics; K.A Tucker - Ten Tiny Breaths; Irma Rombauer - The Joy of Cooking; Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass; Michael Sullivan - The Riyria Chronicles; H.M Ward - Damaged; Barbara Freethy - Daniel’s Gift; Lisa Genova - Still Alice; Richard Paul Evans - The Christmas Box; Jack Canfield and Mark Hensen - Chicken Soup for the Soul; Hugh Howey - Wool Trilogy; Amanda Hocking - the My Blood Approves series and the Trylle Trilogy; E.L James – 50 Shades of Grey.You asked whether it was better to walk the e-path or go for the paper version. The answer is simple: you do both. It doesn't cost any more to create an ebook after you've formatted a physical book. You publish your physical book through Createspace, and you put your ebook through Kindle Direct Publishing and Smashwords.If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask; I help get authors published every day!

What Editors DoA freelance or freelance editor is somebody WHO, for a fee, can undertake to scan your manuscript for structure, style, plot, character development, continuity, and grammatical and technical errors. they'll rewrite your ms. to mend issues, or offer notations and elaborate recommendation thus you'll address them.What’s the distinction between a contract editor ANd an in-house editor?An in-house editor is utilized by a publisher, and works with authors on a publisher’s behalf to edit books before publication. They edit per their own judgment however conjointly to the publisher’s standards. Any book noninheritable by a good publisher are going to be altered in-house. this is often a part of the publication process–the author mustn't be charged for it.A freelance or freelance editor is AN freelance contractor operating directly for, and paid by, the author. What reasonably writing is finished, and the way intensive it's, is entirely up to the author.Most freelance editors supply completely different levels of writing.Manuscript assessment or critique provides a broad overall assessment of your manuscript, pinpointing strengths and weaknesses. Specific downside areas is also flagged, and general suggestions for improvement is also created, however the critique won’t sometimes offer line writing or scene- or chapter-level revision recommendation.Developmental writing (also referred to as content or substantive editing) focuses on the “big picture”: structure, style, theme, and content. The editor flags specific problems–structural difficulties, poor pacing, plot or thematic inconsistencies, stiff dialogue, under-developed characters, rhetorical troubles, soft writing, and also the like–and makes elaborate suggestions for addressing them.Line writing provides writing at the sentence level, specializing in paragraph and syntax, word use, dialogue rhythms, etc., with the aim of making a sleek prose flow.Copy editing focuses on the mechanics of writing: common errors (grammar, spelling, punctuation), incorrect usages, logic lapses, and continuity issues.Proofreading aims to confirm AN error-free manuscript, drooping typos, spelling/punctuation errors, info mistakes, and alternative minor mechanical issues.Editing word is fluid. Some editors outline the higher than terms otherwise, or use completely different word. Others merely offer “light”, “medium”, and “heavy” editing–light being on the order of editing, medium and serious being some combination of line and content writing. 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