July 1st, 2007
A few days ago I blogged about book promotion and my basic belief that the success or failure of a book has very little to do with running ads or blogging yourself to death. Today I came across an article at M.J. Rose’s blog by Simon Liskar, a literary agent. He seems to agree. Check it out. It’s worth a read.
I have a question, how eager are editors/agents to help with contests? Such as your contest you have in which your editor will read the first chapter? Do you find they will generally go along with that? Or do most not, thinking if they have to do it for one, they’ll have to do it for all? Thanks!
by Renee July 2nd, 2007 at 11:07 amI’m going to go with the old standby and say it probably depends. I actually bought a critique by Sean at our local conference–then he very nicely told me he’d give me another one. :)
by Lori July 2nd, 2007 at 2:04 pmBut, I’m sure if editors were constantly getting such requests they would have to say no. Editors are amazingly busy.
I’d just ask the editor in question, but be really understanding if they don’t have the time.