This is the fourth section of a multi-part blog post on the book publishing process as seen through a series of 8 GIFs. You’re finished with your part of the book. It’s been a year since you finished. And now you wait . . . And wait . . . You get your book cover […]
This is the third section of a multi-part blog post on the book publishing process as seen through a series of 17 GIFs. You now have an agent. What’s next? Now it’s time to submit to publishers. So you’re back to making submissions, which makes you do a Conan: Then the editors start saying no […]
This is the second section of a multi-part blog post on the book publishing process as seen through a series of 14 GIFs. You have finished a novel. Only then do you find out that you have to find a literary agent. What the heck? So you write your query letter. And you obsess over […]
A little story first: Michael Levine once sent out a great package for his book, Lessons at the Halfway Point (Celestial Arts). The package included three pages with cartoons at the top and some brief information about the book at the bottom. The fourth page was excerpted from Reader’s Digest, which featured a quote from […]