Get It Published

You’ve written your first novel. You hope it gets accepted by a literary agent or publishing house. For most beginners, rejection is more likely. But don’t lose heart. Harry Potter was rejected a dozen times; Steven King’s first book Carrie was rejected twenty times.

Are you a new author contemplating a novel? Have you already written a few chapters? Or perhaps you’ve made it to THE END and are almost ready to submit the story to an agent or publisher. In any case, Get It Published is for you. You want to eliminate reasons for an acquisition editor reading your submission to frown or grimace and, instead, pass it up the chain with a recommendation to publish.

What do acquisition editors for literary agents or publishing houses hope to see? What issues in a manuscript lead to rejection? The aim of Get It Published is reducing the chances of your story getting rejected.

The eight lessons cover a wide range of topics: how to strengthen your writing, what weakens writing, what practices almost guarantee rejection. You will see what experienced, bestselling authors know that beginning writers don’t. You will see what published authors do that beginning writers don’t.

The goal for the lessons is the same as the goal for your novel: Get It Published.