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raedmagdon: editor in some way. I know that for SF/Fantasy editors, you can frequently meet them at con parties and chat up your novel there, but you won’t be the only one giving this a try. Once they’ve read your manuscript, they’ll either like it and try to buy it (having an agent helps here …

Continue reading “About pitching to the Big 6, I used to work for Tor, which is a Macmillan imprint, and here’s pretty much how the process goes: get a completed manuscript (printed double spaced and one sided) to an editor who works there. It will then go into a giant pile of like manuscripts until someone reads it. It will get pulled from the pile faster if you get an agent first (which costs money, but they will speed the process along considerably) or if you’ve already been published, or if you know the (1/4)”

a-40k-author: Some time ago Laurie Goulding, Black Library author and editorial stalwart, posted a response to questions about the intricacies behind getting a book published – not the authorial work itself, but the lesser-known but truly vital efforts that take a long, typo-riddled Word document and transform it into a majestic, physical book. Unsurprisingly this …

Continue reading “The Publishing Process”