I recently wrote a science fiction novel. Does anybody know how I can get it published without money?

Answer 1

Spend 30 bucks and buy a copy of Writer's Market - or spend a lot of time at the library using their reference copy of Literary Marketplace. Search for agents or smaller publishers searching for sci fi. I must warn you - it is limited. Lots of agents don't want sci fi - they are overloaded.

From there the book teaches you how to write a query etc.

Couple points - do NOT copyright. Agents and publishers get offended. It makes it seem you think they are stealing. If and when you go to the contract phase, they will handle that for you. Trust me the last thing on the mind of legit publishers and agents is stealing your work.

You have to learn how to find out who is legit. You start with Absolute Write Water Cooler's Bewares and Background Forums and Preditors and Editors. Google the hell out of anyone before you send anything. There are lots of nasty people in the business. Also avoid self publishers - all of them. Anybody who tells you they can help you publish free is lying. They can't. Nor do you want them to. You want to learn traditional publishing ONLY/

If you go to my profile, you will find many Q and A on writing and publishing starred. Read through them. They are starred to help you learn. Many great published authors have offered help here. Print them out and learn to advocate for yourself.


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They're, Their, There - Three Different Words.

Careful or you may wind up in my next novel.

Pax - C

Answer 2

Do get Writers Market and study it. Pay particular attention to the length requirements for a book.

Another place you can go to find legitimate small publishers is www.fictionwise.com. Pull up their science fiction bestsellers and note who the publishers are. Then you want to cross check by going to Amazon and making sure the books are available there. If you are thinking of a publisher not listed in Writers Market, check these two places to make sure their books are listed. If they are not selling in Amazon or Fictionwise, you don't want to bother with them.

Answer 3

Pax gives good advice, however as a publisher and someone who communicates with many publishers, I don't know anyone who is offended by seeing (c) 2007 Your Name on a manuscript. It is not considered offensive. Generally, however, it is not needed and won't really impact anything one way or the other. Most publishing contracts state that registering the copyright is your responsibility anyway, as the author is always the rights holder, not the publisher.

Answer 4

WIthout money in what direction?

Thanks to print on demand, there are any number of folks who will publish your novel for as low as one dollar, but it's "published" only in the sense that a book will exist; you will have to pay for any copies you want, and you will never, ever see a copy in bookstores unless you take up the role of trying to sell it.

But that's publishing a novel "without money."

Preferable by far is selling it to a professional publisher, which (assuming it is of sufficient quality), will cost you only postage and time. Do not trust ANY publisher that wants to charge you for reading your manuscript. On a pro level, MONEY ALWAYS FLOWS TOWARD THE WRITER.

Answer 5

Sure. Submit it to publishers. Get a copy of Writer's Market and send out sample chapters. It would help if you could publish a few short stories first, though.

Answer 6

besides the agents there a contests out there in various magazines. that's how i got mine published

Answer 7

You can't. Everything in this world revolves around one simple rule:

"In order to make money, you have to SPEND money."