Which person did famous authors have to lick and suck up too to get their first break?

Question

We seem to think famous authors are just there but they must have had a first break i Mean people like j.k rowling harry potter author must have got a break from someone. When you read Dickens history you see just which people he sucked up to to get his break . So who did rowlings sucjk up to Who did the pulitzer winner for literature suck up to who did the noble prize winner for literature suck up to to get their first break. We all know that you are a nobody untill a somebody sings yoyur praizes. So who are theese somebodies that have launched the famous authors

come on rowlings or dickens did not write their first book take it to a publisher and wamo it was published.just like the nobal prize winner did not take his first book to a publisher and wamo he was publishe-who did they suck up to to get their first break It is fairytales to think the best will just rise with out any help

Answer 1

I can't believe you said suck Dickens.

Other than that, I don't know what you're asking. Every situation is different. You just sound bitter.

Answer 2

Sylvia Plath had to suck up to the editors of Vogue (or maybe it was Elle) during her internship. She kept submitting and submitting and submitting. She had like 40 or maybe 50 different pieces rejected, and she studied and focused on that single narrow niche of those magazines and finally got something in.

Writers often spend years in the business working for newspapers and weeklies etc. and then try to put out a work of fiction.

Prizes from literary magazines also help.

If you have something written, send it out to any author you like, and if they like it they might help out.

Basically fiction writing is a losing battle and there are a few winners that are groomed and write almost on spec. to sell what is hot at the time. For example, the Harvard girl who pumped out a novel about being Indian and trying to be beautiful with make up etc. She got like a 80k advance and basically copy catted some other women-power-coming-of age-cross-cultural novel type thing that is selling well.
If you are pitching something, make like something that already is selling.

In short, keep your day job.

"The writer's market" is a book considered a pretty good introduction into the business.

Answer 3

You know, this is your second post along this vein. Did you just get your tenth rejection letter from a publisher or something? Are you suffering from the "PUBLISHERS DON'T RECOGNIZE MY TALENT" syndrome and venting? Because that is what you are starting to sound like.

Talent doesn't "suck up". You network and make connections and learn the industry so you can behave professionally. You obviously have not learned even the most basic requirements of publishing: grammar and spelling. Master these first, then come back and rant to us about how much people how to kiss up to get a break, OK?

Answer 4

Alot of earlier authors actually got their work first printed in the newspaper. So they pretty much had to suck up to the Editor of the paper. Also alot of the time females didn't get their works published so often they had to use a male alias.

Answer 5

No Ann, it is not true of all the cases. Real good things will come to the top without anybody's help - only the right time is to come .

Answer 6

seriously i have a terribly dirty mind. and yes i agree with u, some major "sucking up" probably went on, but thats the way of life. i'd say heller, salingar, and a lot of the classical writers had to.

Answer 7

Virtually all of them are part of the mutual-backscratching clique. If you are not a Jew or went to a public school (U.S. preppie), then you have more chance of winning the lottery.