mte@busch.UUCP (Moshe Eliovson) (07/01/85)
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!mtebrust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust) (07/08/85)
> > 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 I am of the impression that the agents you'd want generally don't deal with unpublished writers, so can the last option.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