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For any experienced (possibly, attempted) authors- What steps are required to propose a book?

I am doing research and I was wondering what an upcoming author does to get his/her book in action. I know that they usually send proposals in forms of letters first, and usually find an agent, then find editors. More specifically, though, my question is, do authors ever need to go to board meetings or anything? Sorry, I know it sounds weird, but it’s important. Thanks for any answers in advance!

Many publishers don’t want unagented manuscripts (mostly because there are WAY too many really bad books out there and they don’t want to read them all). To find an agent, you need to find a list on the internet (try googling for agents in your genre). The agent website will tell you what they are looking for.

This is usually a query letter, synopsis of your book and possibly the first chapter or 3. There are websites on writing that will help with how to write a synopsis or query letter.

If your book is going to be a smash bestseller, the publisher might want you to do publicity (ie tour bookstores doing signings, go on TV shows). But frankly, this is very, very rare and the publisher and agent can deal with an author who does not want/can not spend his/her time in meetings.

For a first time writer, you can safely figure that you can do all your work from home without anyone ever knowing what you look like. If you so successful that you are the next JK Rowling, I suspect you will be in a totally different ballpark than you are in now, and rules and restrictions will change.

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