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Mark Shaw's Top 10 Publishing Tips
- If you want to be traditionally published, write a story you are passionate about, and one that is marketable.
- Great Book Idea + Great Writing + Savvy Publishing Strategies = Optimization to Be Traditionally Published
- There is no one right way to tell a story, but there is a best way.
- Preparing a book outline is a blueprint for success.
- Market the query letter and book proposal, not the book manuscript.
- Create a query letter and book proposal next to none.
- Search for literaty agents through Association of Authors' Representatives and Publishers Lunch.
- Consider publishing alternatives - traditional, traditional self publishing, and e-books, but beware of subsidy publishers.
- Remember - rejection is not a part of the writer's vocabulary.
- Keep the faith. It only takes one literary agent or publisher to say "Yes."
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