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Insider tip
Enthusiasm is infectious... It is essential to convey enthusiasm for your work and for the job of meeting people and selling to them. Art is a luxury, so people need to enjoy buying it. The Artist's Guide to Selling Work by Annabelle Ruston-
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Exclusive serial: ‘Marketing Your Book’
We’re serialising the 2nd edition of Alison Baverstock’s Marketing Your Book: An Author’s Guide, exclusively on the Writers’ & Artists’ website.
For a limited time only you can view chapters here on the Writers’ & Artists’ website. We add one chapter at a time, giving you two chapters to read whenever you visit.
Chapter 6 ‘How to find an agent’ is online now. You can read it by clicking on the links below.
- How to find an agent
- How do you attract the attention of a literary agent?
- Top tips for finding agent
- Keep going in your search
- Choose wisely
We have also added Chapter 7 ‘Approaching a publisher directly’, which is full of valuable ideas for getting your manuscript noticed by the right people. The chapters are:
- Approaching a publisher directly
- The right kind of publishing house
- Do you have any useful connections?
- The ’slush pile’
- Joining your profession – societies of authors and other support organisations
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