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From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)
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Subject: Re: Publishing a book - how?
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 12:52:33 EDT
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> 	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want generally don't deal with unpublished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