Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site hyper.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!hyper!brust From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Publishing a book - how? Message-ID: <224@hyper.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 12:52:33 EDT Article-I.D.: hyper.224 Posted: Mon Jul 8 12:52:33 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 01:42:26 EDT References: <440@busch.UUCP> Organization: Network Systems Corp., Mpls., Mn. Lines: 46 > > What is the usual fee for a new author of a fantasy novel. > Are trilogies worth more? What is the procedure for choosing and > obtaining a publisher? > > Moshe Eliovson > {allegra, ihnp4}!we53!busch!mte Anywhere from 2k to 5k seems to be more or less in line. Don't know about Trilogies. Note that the above "fee" is not so much a fee as an advance against future royalties, which are likely to be 4% to 6% for a first fantasy novel. The options for obtaining a publisher seem to be: send the manuscript to an editor, send a query letter, plot outline, and one or two sample chapters to an editor, send just a query letter to an editor, or get an agent. I am of the impression that the agents you'd want generally don't deal with unpublished writers, so can the last option. I've not been able to find anything to inherently recommend or de-recommend the other three. Selecting the editor may be done on the basis of finding an editor who's work you know, finding a publisher who's work you like, or getting hold of a copy of the 1985 Writer's Guide and looking in the "novels" section for fantasy. Allow me to recommend: Terri Windling C/O Beth Fleischer Berkely Publishing Group 200 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Good Luck, SKZB