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Help for Authors who Want to Get Published
Help for Authors who Want to Get Published
You're an author seeking a publisher?
If you've started beating on publishers' doors you've probably had some rebuffs already. I had plenty myself but I persevered and eventually found myself signing contracts – and copies of my books as they rolled from the press! They do smell good!
Completing the journey from pen to print brings huge satisfaction (and some money besides) and I'm happy to guide new authors along the narrow path that leads to success.
Some years ago I helped an author to find a publisher for her first biography - and she's published another three since then, with one of them issued on CD and published in Korean translation!
More recently, I helped my son and colleague Robin Triggs with his debut novel, Night Shift - and now it's in the bookshops along with its gripping sequels Human Resources and New Gods.
Here's a small extract from a novel whose author asked us for guidance. She clearly had a story to tell, and the incident conveys some tension. We don't see a jobbing builder at work but someone involved in an urgent struggle.
So far so good - but could the telling be even better? Most readers would answer yes to this - and so would most agents and publishers!
The author was certainly grateful for the help and advice we gave her.
'How impressed I've been with all your insights,'
she later wrote.
I'd be glad of the chance to read your work, too,
and offer you some free, personally tailored tips to help you get published.
No matter how good, there'll be things you missed!
Further down the line, when manuscripts are almost ready for the press,
we offer authors and publishers our copy editing and proofreading services.
Please click for more details.
Our present offer is for authors at the drafting and polishing stage.
If that's where you are why not send us a sample now?
We'll give you some feedback free of charge and tell you the cost of a full review.
Please email [email protected] or contact us via the form below.
Tony D Triggs
The joy of a publishing contract!
Advice for authors and free appraisal of manuscripts is available for all.
However, if you're creative and young (under 18), or an adult helping a talented youngster, please visit Calling Creative Youngsters
.