Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents, 1999-2000 (with CD-ROM) : Who They Are! What They Want! And How to Win Them Over!

Editorial Review:

Over the years, Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents has helped thousands of writers just like you get their books published. With the best and most up-to-date listings of key book publishing insiders, Writer's Guide gets you past the reject piles and into the hands of the right people. Nowhere else will you find the detail, the insight, the depth. Nowhere else will you find the solid inside information.
This deluxe edition includes a CD-ROM that contains the entire database of agents and publishers along with systems for tracking submissions, expenses, titles, and copyrights. In addition, direct links to Web sites mentioned in the book and an additional 50 links to writing-related sites give you immediate access to the people you need to know. It also includes over 30 utilities for writers like the Thinking Man's Thesaurus, WinZip, and Grammar Slammer.
Writer's Guide is your key to book publishing success. It gets you inside. It gets you noticed. Your talent will do the rest.
"Beats the pants off Writer's Market."
--Michael Werner, coauthor of Databases for Businesses and Using Lotus 1-2-3
"This guide started my book publishing career."
--Marcos McPeek Villatoro, author of A Fire in the Earth, They Say That I Am Two, and Walking to La Milpa
"The finest lead source that I've ever seen. A must buy for every writer, published or not!"
--Derek Savage, author of The Second Coming and The Dancer
"Invaluable information, from query letter to book proposal. This book has made my dreams come true."
--Eileen Oster, author of The Healing Mind
"This book got my foot in the door."
--Wynn Goldsmith, writer
"A masterpiece. I have never found so much practical information in this type of book before."
--Walter Lambert, author of Healing the Trauma of Divorce
"As a writer and literary agent, this book has been invaluable."
--Mary N. Oluonye, O-Squared Literary Agency
"Jeff Herman has crammed a generous helping of information and advice into this invaluable book."
--Paul Nathan, Publishers Weekly
"Writer's Guide has eclipsed both Literary Market Place and Writer's Market as a source of projects for our agency. At least a third of our sales last year came as a result of this book."
--Michael Snell, Michael Snell Literary Agency
About the Author
/Jeff Herman is founder of The Jeff Herman Literary Agency, one of New York's leading agencies for writers. He has sold hundreds of titles and represents dozens of top authors.

So you've got this idea for a book, but you don't know where to begin to look for a publisher. With information on more than 400 publishers in the United States and Canada, the Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents, 1999-2000 is the perfect place to start your search. Though the alphabetic listing of publishers is somewhat daunting, the index (with its select range of general topics) can narrow down your list. Once you've compiled a list of publishers interested in your topic, you can turn to the in-depth, individual entries to learn more. These profiles include information on the houses' recent successes, its imprints, and its staff--including the names of the people to whom you can send query letters.

The book also contains a list of over 200 top literary agents (the author, Jeff Herman, is a successful agent who has sold nearly 350 titles) and what they're willing to represent, along with essays on the necessity of finding the one who best suits you. Other essays on the merits of different types of publishers, how to write query letters, and how to develop a proposal package round out the book. Perhaps the finest feature of this work, however, is its honest, straightforward tone. While the book remains upbeat, there's no sugarcoating of the truth--that only a small percentage of good writers get published. While offering no guarantees, the Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents, 1999-2000 will certainly help you in your search to find the one for you. --C.B. Delaney

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

a great resource for the beginning writer:

I'm trying to get a book published and this book is an excellent resource on how to write the proper query letter and assemble the perfect proposal submission to a publisher.

And, of course, this book has an exhaustive list of publishers of all kinds as well as literary agents. My only complaint would be that I wish they had an index organizing the agents by the genres they accept. It's a minor quibble on an otherwise flawless book.

wonderful book!:

I love the resume format for each literay agent! Helped me tremendously in making a decision.

Read this if you are serious about getting published:

Jeff Herman is one of the top literary agents in New York. In this book, he offers his own insights, and he also calls on many of the key players in the publishing industry to explain, from their perspective, exactly how the business really works.
Learn what an acquisition editor looks for; what motivates an editor to want to publish your book; and the mechanics of the whole process. Armed with this information, you are in a much better position to contact the editors and agents listed in the book.... more info

TOO MANY INSIDERS BENEFIT FROM WRITERS' ETERNAL HOPE:

This and other books like it purport to help writers. It is certainly comprehensive and well done. The reality is that the gatekeepers and the keymasters of the publishing industry are publishing lots of books for writers that do not seem to advance their cause. This book looks more like an advertisement by literary agents for literary agents and editors, rather than anything that is truly meant to help the writers among us. The literati turn their noses up at most of the query letters they receive.

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