Great writing doesn’t always make for great books. Lots of great books fail. In fact, commercially, most books fail. But some don’t. Those that don’t often have shared characteristics. The author has an anonymous audience (i.e. she or he doesn’t know everyone who reads them), the book is publicisable (i.e. it has hooks which people can remember) and it has zeitgeist (i.e. it feels it’s part of today’s world). Only one thing can be effectively managed there, the publicity. Three things about your book will be enough to sell it. Knowing what they are is the key to getting published.
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This site is great to get a genuine feel for what is about… As a fairly new Author having been writing poetry for two years, it has been somewhat of a minefield in finding some of the information on the publishing side of poetry in one place… To be told at the outset that there is difficulty in gettting poetry to print leaves you with no misconceptions…leaving the Author to do what they do best and write in hope that one day their works might be enjoyed and received by the masses… In the meantime let us create canvasses of masters, words that fly from the page and come alive, painting pallettes of rainbows, windows of imagination that live onwards …A-M Docherty