USING DUOTROPE TO FIND PUBLISHERS

My experience with Duotrope

I have been using Duotrope to find
publishers for quite some time now. The cost is $50 a year and is well worth
it.

They currently list 7581 publishers
for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual arts. The website also lists
literary agents which is something I will discuss in a future post.

What I would like to cover now is
how you go about starting a search and what are the factors I look for in the
information resulting from that search.

But first, when considering a
publisher, I feel, you need to be realistic in what you feel is the level of
your talent is when seeking a publisher. As in everything in life, there are
multiple levels of competence. And as you continue publishing your work to
expand your resume, you improve your skills with hard work and experience. This
will increase your level of competence as a writer and expand the number and
quality of publishers you will approach.

I use the website almost
exclusively for finding publishers of fiction. The type of fiction various
publishers are looking for includes flash fiction, short stories, novellas and
novels.

One word of caution when approaching a publisher. Especially a publisher of novels.

To get your work
accepted and published should not cost you anything especially for novels.
Editing, developing a cover and whatever else is involved in getting your novel
to market should not cost you a cent.