Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 4429144" data-attributes="member: 5834">You should look at the publishing companies that publish the books you consider similar or somewhat similar to what you have written and look to get your material to them. You could also look to self-publish, but that would require a great deal of additional effort marketing and promoting your book including self-planned book tours and an understanding of where to market your material as well as alot of additional capital. You would also need to set up an online sales mechanism and track book sales yourself.Christopher Paolini self-published Eragon and went on book tours before he obtained an agent and a big publishing deal. But he had the support of fairly affluent parents. I'm not sure what kind of financial resources you have.I would definitely start networking and promoting your material. Maybe attend some book conventions or organized events that allow beginning writers to pitch to agents or representatives of publishing houses. Maybe you can even find a few referrals if you can get a published author to review your material.Maybe drop by Jim Butcher's web page. As far as I can tell Jim Butcher was just some guy who wanted to become a writer and was persistent and focused enough to accomplish his goal. <a href="http://www.jim-butcher.com/" target="_blank">http://www.jim-butcher.com/</a> He may have some good advice on his page.If you haven't read a Harry Dresden novel, they are a pretty fun read. Very light, fun, yet exciting and intense at the same time.</blockquote>

Verification