This isn't the kind of question which will spark a debate. However, I am an eighteen year old A-level student, who has a talent for writing and need to be recognised and hopefully published. My work includes poetry and an unfinished historical novel based on a girl amidst post-WW2 Japan. I have been pursuing literary publications and competitions for two years and am sick of it! I'm even considering self-publishing but am worried about the expensive costs and getting things wrong like Copyright and ISBN. I don't really want to pay for an agent. Please, if anyone has any advice they can offer, it will be gladly received. Thank you.
2006-10-16 00:42:31 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
You should be able to find the Writers Handbook at your library. Won't be able to check it out, but you could sit there for a couple hours and read it, or photocopy some relevant sections.
Look for a mentor. Your English teacher, or head of the English department should be able to help you. Are you shy? Try not to be, it will only get in the way....:-)
There was a guy in my town who owned a small local bookstore who had been a literary agent. Students often went to talk with him about their work and he gave excellent advice. Finding someone like that would be great.
Good luck.
2006-10-16 00:51:21 · answer #1 · answered by Singinganddancing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Advice: Get a web site straight up. Instant access to your market. Register it on a search engine. Put a copy of each of your finished works in the post to yourself via registered post. This will give you a kinda lame copyright. You get a date and so on from the post office and this is your proof that you wrote the work at the date on the envelope. Find your market. Try to develop a style and stick to it. If your historical epics do well stick to that. Dont try writing kiddie comix at the same time. Slip your books into the library shelves too!
2006-10-16 07:48:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to the library and read the latest copy of the Writers Handbook, you should find all the information you need in that, good luck hope you get your break soon.
2006-10-16 08:05:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy the latest writers handbook. A dirctory of every cotact you'll need. All the publishers / agents / editors etc. Bloody big book but worth a look through.
2005's version is on amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Writers-Handbook-Barry-Turner/dp/1405041536
2006-10-16 07:45:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋