Experience with publishers?
Hello, I have a question regarding your experiences with various publishers. Were there any publishers you were satisfied or dissatisfied with? Or publishers you worked with?
I would like to submit a manuscript myself and would like to hear your opinions on different publishers.
Thank you in advance.
All serious publishers are good.
Serious publishers are publishers who do not demand money from the authors.
But:
Reputable publishers usually have no interest in new, unknown authors who are not yet able to demonstrate any experiences and successes.
This is not worthwhile for the publishers because there is no high sales figures. Unrequited manuscript entries are usually not read at all by the publishers.
That it actually works that a new author is accepted by a reputable publisher, which is about as likely as a six in the lottery.
Even such geniuses like Astrid Lindgren and J.K.Rowling in their first years as authors did not manage that a publisher has accepted their works and that their books have come into the bookstores.
Tip: Take it Young authors competitions tei!
Alternatives:
You can upload your book for publication on various pages on the Internet, e.g. in Wattpad or Fanfiction.
These are pages where thousands of (young) authors publish, exchange their stories and books and gather first experiences as an author.
As a further step, you can publish your books yourself as Selfpublishing Book / eBook, e.g. via portals such as:
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One more Warning:
Be careful not to one of the fraudulent pseudo-disposition !
They take advantage of the situation that so many authors desperately seek a publishing house, unconsidered and shock the authors. They emerge as a reputable publisher and make inexperienced authors great (false) promises about the (probably) expected success of the (probably) supertollen book.
This pseudo publishers demand a lot of money from the authors, but do not provide the performance hoped by the authors. The book title then only stands in any catalogues, but more does not happen with the book.
In the end, the author remains at high cost in the 5-digit range and on boxes full of books that no one wants.
When you read something like “Publisher search“, then this is guaranteed to be such scams who seek new victims.
Serious publishers don’t write that; they have enough authors on their lists and recruit “new” authors by focusing on (hobby) authors who can already demonstrate successes, e.g. by successful participation in junior authors competitions, by successful self-publishing, or by success at Wattpad &Co.
Thanks for the tips and hints. I will take this into account and thank you again.
Another small question, do you know where I can inquire for the younger author competition? The thought did not come to me until now, only after I read your answer. That might be a way.
I can fully confirm the answer from @, but for you again a small note: I wouldn’t advise you on Amazon (KDP). Imprint and delivery obligations are not taken over, i.e. you are responsible for this and also remain at arising costs. In addition, books are then exclusively available on Amazon and how exactly Amazon takes it with the correct deduction of sales tax is also not exactly transparent…
Thank you very much, you really helped me.
Such competitions are repeatedly advertised by many different institutions.
Just googling after “Young authors competitionsor “Writing competitions“.
For example, here’s information: http://www.epubli.com/know/write competition
But be careful:
The pseudo-supply/pressure cost-supply-supply-supply also write out such competitions to find new customers/suppliers that they can zoom off 😉
To confirm beet-paying words and at the same time weaken a little: On the one hand, he is right: large-scale publishers are first-class business enterprises, and like any business enterprise they are on profit.
Therefore it is very very very very difficult to get a foot in the door as someone unknown.
However, it is not forcibly impossible: if a publishing house is of the opinion that you could reach enough buyers with the story OR – (which may happen) the publishing house is of the opinion that the author/author has a lot of potential that the publishing house is willing to build him/her in order to earn money with him later (so according to four – five novels), then a “NoName” can also submit his manuscript.
But as I said, it’s like having six right in the lottery.
By the way, I also believe that you should be careful with the so-called pressure cost grant reserves, even if there are those that are serious (seriously, in the case that they represent the costs of transparency).
Nevertheless: The writing of a novel is hard work, and in my eyes the work should be paid and not yet cost money for the author.
Better try your luck with small publishers. There are some who even put “big names”, but rather put their winnings in projects to offer the more unknown writers a chance.
There is no guarantee, but an attempt is worth it all.
Thank you for the tip. I am really grateful for all tips and hints
One more question, can you possibly call me some smaller publishers? I only know the names of the big publishers, that’s why.
Thank you for the links. Be sure to look at them.
Here, for example, would be a “exclusive” list:
https://smallfairlage.de/die-small-and-medium-sized-relay
https://www.evamariahoereth.de/2017/10/10/liste-von-small-relay-der-fantasy/
Otherwise googeln bei Kleinverlage or even Kleinfairlage
So, I’ll do it again. You can print 2…3 books yourself, which you will bind and give a copy to your teachers. When the book arrives well, you burn it as a PDF on a CD and put it in a print shop. Then you can print 50… 100 copies. You can sell them and if it’s going well, maybe a publisher is interested in you too!
Don’t wonder, I know you want names
I’ve got a promise for two books. Only wanted the 10,000 for a publication in Germany and 3000 in Switzerland.
We left that.
Does that mean that I may have to pay for publishing my book? I thought the costs were taken over by the publishing house, so I was told at least by them.
If that’s different, that’s good, but at that time the publishers were not allowed to take any more money. I must have understood something wrong.
The two contracts came like that. That’s why I wrote this to you. And there is much more written than reading today. Do you have to be so lucky to find someone who doesn’t want money?
The publisher does not want to take any risk, you must bear the costs yourself first.
Unrequited manuscripts land in deposit P. And no, it is not necessary to take care of the sales themselves, even this would not speak for the seriousness of a publisher.
but not on unsolicited manuscripts! It is also necessary to take care of the distribution itself. But perhaps you call the questioner a publisher!
A serious publisher does not require money from his authors. In any case, a print cost subsidy, a minimum reduction in own-examples and other expenses do not speak for the seriousness of a publisher.
Well then I hope I’ll be lucky 🙂 Thanks for the info
I know a neighbor
You had written a German-Italian very special book.
Large publishers were not interested.
I had seen the book and noticed that book must be moved!
I had shown a friend's book
We printed the book together and put it into a bookshop
The book presentation I had in Munich was a success
https://www.messebroker.de/flipBook/index.html
https://www.domagkpark.de/message detail/Italian_Abend.html
Only yesterday, someone came by and bought a book, just because it's so special.
Large publishers think only in drawers
…who want to be filled with money…
A large-scale publisher is in the first place an economic company that wants to achieve profit.
A small publisher actually liked to make profits
Drawer thinking has nothing to do with it.
Of course, others are also co-financed with good-looking books.
This is nothing new
You have come
Of course, large-scale publishers also finance badly-going books by well-going ones.
Just like small publishers, these of course don’t have such a cushion
Again – the drawer thinking has little to do with financing.
It is more about publishers usually having their topics
And books that fit into their themes that have a chance
Others are not really looked at.
Example the mentioned cookbook.
A 2 language book
Simpler recipes
Interesting stories
Instead of colour pictures with artificial food in front of the camera so it looks good, here drawing
It does not fit in Italian literature
It does not fit correctly in 2 language books
It does not fit properly in cookbooks
Publishers had therefore rejected it without having to examine it large because they have no drawer for it.
But everyone who has some interest in Italy and cooking, and the book has in hand, is enthusiastic
Inspired by the stories
Enthused by the synchronous 2 language
Enthusiasts from Machart
Inspired by the simple Italian recipes without much
Sometimes a book doesn’t have to fit into a drawer.
Harry Potter used to be different from other 📚
Jain. I know of at least one publisher whose aim is to earn money with one title, but who wants to finance other books with the profit (and also does it) so that they also discover the “light of the book world”.
On occasion: Not directly book, but the first record “Monarchy and everyday life” of false colors was made possible at the time, because the label at that time generated good sales with Howard Carpendale and could therefore allow itself to produce the record.
Interestingly, it took almost 20 years until “Monarchy and everyday life” reached gold status …