What You Don’t Know About Publishing (Could Ruin Your Book)

By Peter Mountford

The publishing business is vast and byzantine. What does it mean that your agent is “taking your book to Frankfurt,” or what do you know about the mysterious film/foreign scout network, or Goodreads giveaways, or regional sales reps?

Unfortunately, most aspiring authors don’t understand the publishing world. Flustered, people often choose to self-publish, then feel crushed when only their loved ones (and not many of them, for that matter) buy the book.

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