The other night I was in a workshop with a lovely lady we’ll call Marie who was a cancer survivor. She began to tell different stories about her life - not just about her journey with cancer, but other parts of her world that captivated me and everyone else in the room. I said, “You should write a book!” Marie replied, “That’s what people tell me.” But it was clear Marie had no burning desire to go do that.
Read full post...To garner the attention of the big New York publishers your writing must: inform, entertain, or enlighten. If your writing doesn\’t cover at least one of those three areas, chances are you will not get their attention and they won\’t publish your work.
The big guys are constantly on the search for new product, not necessarily different, but new. There is a distinction. Big publishers rarely take chances on manuscripts that venture far from the beaten path. If you wander into a chain bookstore and cannot find a category for your writing, then chances are the big publisher won\’t either, and as far as they\’re concerned your writing is un-publishable.
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