Finding a publisher for your writing is not as hard as many people believe. There are many user-friendly resources available to writers that are both easy to find and inexpensive to use. An entire industry has sprung up devoted to helping writers get published, and the real trick nowadays is to weed through all that is available in order to simplify the search.
- The first step in any publisher search is to identify which market your writing is for. Online markets, magazines, books, and newspapers all have different criteria for publication and different ways to locate a publisher.
- If the writing is not intended for online publication, the first step in locating a print publisher is to buy the most recent copy of Writer's Market. This is an enormous volume dedicated to every conceivable book and magazine market, detailing the publisher's contact information as well as how the manuscript should be submitted. The Writer's Market is updated yearly with new publishers and new requirements, so it is important to get the most recent copy available. In the last few years the Writer's Market has also come with a CD-ROM that helps you save publishers that sound promising and to track submissions to make the process a little easier.
- The Writer's Market also has a website that is accessible with a subscription. Most of the information from the book is available on the website, and it is updated more often than it is possible to update the print edition. There are also direct links to publisher's websites so the specific writer's guidelines can be found without writing to the publisher. Buying a new copy of the book includes a code good for a one-year subscription to the website.
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Author: L. Shepherd