A great pitch is often the first encounter in a successful publishing relationship.
As an acquisition editor, I listen avidly to every writer’s pitch, hoping each time to find a terrific new prospect for publication.
For the uninitiated, a pitch is an author’s brief, face-to-face verbal presentation to an agent or an editor like me, (usually at [...]

Agents, editors, and publishers receive queries every day from professors, scholars, clinicians and other academics who say they have a great idea for a trade book based on their research, thesis, journal article or latest discoveries from the lab or clinic.
Sharp editors also scour the daily press for the latest breaking news about scientific discoveries [...]

She grew up in a tiny Mormon town in Idaho (pop 841,) she writes poetry, reads kids’ books and says she avoids the internet as much as she possibly can.
Kristen Tracy sold her first book in 2006 to Simon and Schuster. The title was Lost It, a story about a girl losing her virginity underneath [...]

A successfully self-published book can propel you down the road to a book contract at a commercial publishing house.
That’s the truth of the matter, despite the worries I hear from writers that self-publishing could doom their hopes of ever landing a real book deal. Don’t listen to those persistent rumors and urban myths that [...]