It's fantasy for young adults, urban fantasy. I need to find some publishing house that doesn't take more than three months to reply to a query. Help!
2007-07-06 08:50:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Sorry but any publishing house takes a long time to reply. They get thousands of submissions weekly. I assume you realize that A List publishers only deal with agents and you have to get an A List agent to submit your book for you?
The best thing you can do is go to the research section of your local library and look for Literary Marketplace. Search through the small publishing houses and see which ones are searching for fantasy material and have a short turn around time.
Then, you must follow their submission guidelines. You don't submit your book. You submit a query letter If they like that they will ask you for a book proposal and/or a complete or partial manuscript.
Three months isn't a long time to get an answer. Gone With the Wind was rejected 50 times before it sold. James Patterson got over 70 rejection letters before he sold a book. Getting published doesn't happen overnight. It is a long and arduous process. And due to the volume of people out there who are sending in queries and manuscripts -- especially in the children's and fantasy genres - the wait has gotten longer. Unless your name is Stephen King or Dean Koontz or something like that, expect to wait for answers. That is the nature of the beast.
If you want quick results, self publish. If you want to see your book in bookstores, then you have to wait like everyone else does. An agent can speed the process up considerably because they have the inside track with publishers. You will find agents listed in Literary Marketplace with their submission guidelines as well. Look for some who read fantasy and submit to them.
Pax - C
2007-07-06 09:08:06 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Persiphone_Hellecat is absolutely right. If you're lucky it'll only take three months. Sometimes six months. Yet just remember the longer it takes the more serious they are considering your proposal. And yes, a small publisher receives thousands and thousands of submissions each year, and ends up publishing from all of those submissions about 12 to 15 books.
2007-07-06 16:48:30 · answer #2 · answered by mac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all of the publishing houses take at LEAST three months to get back to you. you must understand, it takes time to go over a book and find mistakes. they have to review it at least 25 times until they can send it back to you. just have patience. i am a teenager, and i am in the process of publishing a book, and i am not a patient person, but there is nothing to do about it. so just send it in, sit back, and relax and wait for the answer.
2007-07-12 14:12:39 · answer #3 · answered by kt 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I got this great book from the library.
Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers and Literary Agents.
Go to the library and check it out. It gives many publishers names and addresses.
2007-07-12 20:00:29 · answer #4 · answered by brenderderder 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just to add to the answer above, Flux might be a good company to submit to. They accept manuscripts from first time authors, and you don't need an agent(though it's always good to have one.)
And remember, companies get THOUSANDS of manuscripts and queries a year. You'll have to wait just like everyone else.
2007-07-06 16:24:10 · answer #5 · answered by Marti 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
buy a book called "Writers Market"
2007-07-11 15:44:04 · answer #6 · answered by panndora 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋