"If you have an idea for a book, read everything you can about your particular genre."
- • Go and browse in the bookshops and read what the critics are saying. Reviews are a great guide to what’s currently in vogue. I read the Guardian Review section on Saturdays because it’s the biggest and the broadest.
- • Don’t send manuscripts to publishers. Most have stopped accepting unsolicited material, so instead find yourself an agent. They are now looking for good, new stuff, the next whoever, the next bestseller’.
- • Do not ‘cold-call’ agents; a letter with a brief proposal is best.
- • Personal contacts are very important, but knowing how the publishing industry works is also very helpful.
- • If you have an idea for a book, read everything you can about your particular genre. Go and browse in the bookshops and read what the critics are saying. Reviews are a great guide to what’s currently in vogue. I read the Guardian Review section on Saturdays because it’s the biggest and the broadest.
- • Don’t send manuscripts to publishers. Most have stopped accepting unsolicited material, so instead find yourself an agent. They are now looking for good, new stuff, the next whoever, the next bestseller’.
- • Do not ‘cold-call’ agents; a letter with a brief proposal is best.
- • Personal contacts are very important, but knowing how the publishing industry works is also very helpful.
