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Site, Logo, and Author Platform

It’s been two weeks since I’ve posted anything on this site and I can’t promise another two weeks will not go by without posting either.

I’ve started to accept that I don’t have magical powers – not even close, although my children believe I have eyes at the back of my head.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve decided to implement some of the knowledge learned in my marketing class. At first, I was going to wait, but then decided, skills learned are skills practiced.I also picked up a couple of books I thought might help, Creating Your Author Brand by Kristine Kathryn Rush and Platform: Get noticed in a Noisy World by Michael Hyatt – although I haven’t dived into them yet – because not everything in my class will apply to the business of writing.I’m also one of those learn-and-do-as-much-as-you-can type of person. Which probably adds to me being overwhelmed and tired half the time (also, managing my CF is a damn fulltime job).

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AGENTS AND EDITORS

books in basket, golden cut, and potted plant
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What are their roles when you are ready to publish?

Literary Agent

This person is hired by you to help present and hopefully sell your novel to a Publisher in return for a percentage of your earnings from that book.

Acquisition Editor

Editors represent a Publisher’s interest in any deal, not the writer’s. Their job is to get the best deal with the least amount of risk for the Publisher by paying you the smallest amount possible. They are not on your side, if you don’t sell anything they don’t make any money and you lose the opportunity to write for them. Continue reading “AGENTS AND EDITORS”