Comments for GETTING PUBLISHED https://gettingpublished.wordpress.com Comments and advice for academic authors Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:10:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Word count and book length by Gerald Jackson https://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/word-count-and-book-length/#comment-7921 Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:10:31 +0000 http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/?p=80#comment-7921 Hi Taran. I am an academic publisher not a trade (general) one. My impression, however, is that the self-improvement market is a difficult one to get heard in. As such, going the agent-publisher route may mean your book reaches a wider audience. But let’s be honest, very few book ideas are even considered by agents let alone are sold onto a publisher. The self-publishing route might thus be better. First up, then, you should look coldly at your book and assess its commercial qualities – not least simple things like assessing its readership, pinpointing competing works, assessing its merits and defects against the competition, etc. If it looks stunning, you may be in with a chance with an agent but if so make sure you approach the right one. From memory, Literary Marketplace is where you need to look. Good luck!

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Comment on Word count and book length by Taran hughes https://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/word-count-and-book-length/#comment-7883 Wed, 01 Feb 2017 16:40:00 +0000 http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/?p=80#comment-7883 Gerald, really helpful comments thanks so much. I was am in similar situation for my book, its like to end up between 40k and 60k words, depending on what I include in the first book ( non fiction – mindset and awareness for salespeople ) I hadn’t really considered approaching a publisher, given the popularity of self publishing, do you think it short sighted not to even consider a publisher? Many thanks.

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Comment on What is typesetting? by Gerald Jackson https://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/what-is-typesetting/#comment-7756 Sun, 18 Dec 2016 08:53:58 +0000 http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-7756 You need the right software. For instance, with Adobe InDesign, the main program that typesetting professionals use, you can very finely control letter spacing and do many other things besides. This you cannot do in Word, which is useless for laying out text. The problem is that InDesign doesn’t come cheap (though the monthly subscription isn’t too bad).

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Comment on What is typesetting? by natruthstudent https://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/what-is-typesetting/#comment-7755 Sat, 17 Dec 2016 04:16:00 +0000 http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-7755 Is there a way to have sentences in a paragraph of equal length without having so much space between words that it looks like crap?

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Comment on How to calculate book length by Jeremy Beauplan https://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/how-to-calculate-book-length/#comment-7718 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 23:12:27 +0000 http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/?p=382#comment-7718 I writing a book called “Ursidae”.I want to get it published and this site gave me great info.Thanks!P.S.,spread the word for my book.

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Comment on Word count and book length by H. Brown https://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/word-count-and-book-length/#comment-7690 Thu, 17 Nov 2016 06:44:06 +0000 http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/?p=80#comment-7690 Hello.This article was extremely motivating, particularly because I was searching for
thoughts on this matter last Monday.

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Comment on How to calculate book length by Nadheera Shoukath Soofi https://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/how-to-calculate-book-length/#comment-7672 Sun, 06 Nov 2016 10:48:12 +0000 http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/?p=382#comment-7672 I am publishing my book from India soon on environment and the need to birth control for a better worlds. This article helped me for more awareness for my future works. All the best!

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Comment on Common editing and proofing marks by michelle yoro https://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/common-proofing-marks/#comment-7568 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 03:06:20 +0000 http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/?p=1014#comment-7568 This has saved me a lot of time for my next discussion. Thank you very much.

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Comment on Word count and book length by Gerald Jackson https://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/word-count-and-book-length/#comment-7227 Mon, 30 May 2016 08:44:55 +0000 http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/?p=80#comment-7227 Very true. The dirty secret of academic publishing today is that editorial standards have slipped. There is very little substantive editing done, even though shaping the text is very important (not to mention having a compelling start to the book). As for copy editing, it is shocking that certain well-known publishers are now leaving that to the author so as to cut costs.

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Comment on Word count and book length by Caro https://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/word-count-and-book-length/#comment-7226 Mon, 30 May 2016 08:16:54 +0000 http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/?p=80#comment-7226 Thanks again Gerald, will do. And thanks for your help.
I’m in Australia and it’s difficult to get the UK publisher to respond; I don’t hold out much hope for editorial assistance and may even pay someone to help me before I submit. Maybe I can pull a few words out that way! 🙂

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