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If
you are a new author trying to get your book published, you already know
the awful truth about the book publishing industry.
They don't want your book.
And, it has nothing to do with the quality of the work. The sad
fact is, the doors to the big publishing houses are closed to all but
the luckiest of new writers.
This is because the big houses treat books like a commodity, not a work
of art, a source of information or a flame of inspiration. They
might as well be selling cheese or cell phones.
What they want is a book that fits a certain prescribed formula that is
guaranteed to generate a specific amount of sales for their investment.
Part of this formula includes giving preference to people who are already
famous. If you are a star athlete you can get a book deal, even if you
can't write a coherent sentence. If you've been involved in a major
sex scandal, they'll sign you up in a heartbeat with a huge advance.
If you don't belong to one of those categories, you might still have a
chance. Most book publishers will look at your manuscript if you have
an agent. The trouble is, most agents won't look at your work unless
you've already published a successful book.
So what do you do? Do you continue to beat your head against an
impenetrable brick wall? You could spend hundreds of dollars to
mail out your manuscript and endure years of rejection and frustration.
Or you could just give up and stick your dream in a drawer.
You spent a lot of time, perhaps years, writing your book. You put
your heart and soul into it. Perhaps you have an important message
to share with the world.
Your book deserves a better fate.
Fortunately, there is a way to publish your book, one that offers many
advantages over the traditional approach to becoming a published author.
What I am talking about is co-op publishing, in which the author and the
publisher become partners. Many of the world's top authors first published
this way. Such blockbuster hits as Looking Out for Number 1, The
Celestine Prophecies and the multi-million selling Chicken Soup series
were initially funded in whole or in part by the authors which is the
same thing we help you do at Peterson Publishing Group.
Once they become successful, many authors continue to co-op publish even
though they have the big publishing houses chasing after them.
Why would they do that, you might ask?
One of the many reasons is that even if you do get a book deal, most traditional
publishing houses move very slowly. They are large bureaucracies
in which most manuscripts first pass through low-paid underlings whose
job it is to reject any unsolicited manuscript automatically. If
by some fluke, your book survives this meat grinder, it must make its
slow, painful way up the corporate ladder until it finally lands on the
desk of someone who can agree to accept your book. If that person
should leave for a job with another publishing house, which happens quite
often, your book becomes
orphaned and the whole slow process starts all over again.
If your book surmounts these hurdles, it may take them a year or more
to decide to publish it and another year or two after that before they
release it. SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BE DOING FOR THREE YEARS?
Do you really want to wait that long? Even if you are a very patient
person, the elements that make your book a viable, important contribution
today, may be irrelevant three years from now. If you've written
a hi-tech book, for example, the material in it could be completely outdated.
But let's say that these obstacles don't apply to you. There is
still another important consideration to look at. The books of new,
unproven authors are seldom actively marketed or promoted. The famous
author and lecturer Dr. Wayne Dyer (who wrote Your Erroneous Zones, Pulling
Your Own Strings and The Sky's The Limit) found this out the hard way.
His first book languished on the shelves of the few stores that had it.
Unwilling to let his important work fade away, Dr. Dyer bought up the
entire first print run
of his book and traveled the country with his books in his car, appearing
on every small-town talk show that would have him. He made his book
a hit, not the publisher.
So you can see that taking the traditional approach to book publishing
has a lot of pitfalls.
Well guess what, there's still another important reason to consider co-op
publishing. Money. Authors who co-op publish often make much
more money from their work. Did you know that most traditional publishers
pay only 6% to 7% on the wholesale price of the book?
As a co-op author, you get a much larger share of the profits.
Now you might be thinking, if co-op authors can make more money, why not
publish it myself and keep all of the profits? You can do that,
but there are many pitfalls. Who will design a professional cover?
Where can you get the best price on printing your book while maintaining
the quality? Then once you have your book, you need to find distributors
because the retail chains won't deal with you directly. Then you
need a professional publicist to arrange those vital book reviews and
newspaper, magazine and talk show interviews. Unfortunately, these
doors are usually closed to small publishing houses and self-publishers.
That's why you need a publishing partner.
And that's what Peterson Publishing Group is about. We work with you to
help make your book a success. We are not a Vanity Publisher, that
is, an outfit that makes you pay all of the costs of printing your books,
ships them to you and then leaves it up to you to find a way to sell them.
Our publishing team shares the costs with you, which means we have a very
good reason to help make your book a success. Because of our experience
and expertise, we have the tools to do just that. We already have
strong alliances with book distributors, book stores, key people in the
media and much more.
We work with you to create an attractive, eye-catching book that you will
be proud of. Then we develop a marketing campaign to help you get
book signings, newspaper, magazine and talk show interviews and placement
in a wide range of book outlets.
If this sounds exciting to you, great. We want you to be excited
because this could be the opportunity you've been waiting for.
But please keep in mind that we are legitimate publishers who have helped
hundreds of people see their publishing dreams come true.
Because we are in the publishing business to make money, we cannot accept
every manuscript we receive. Fortunately, about 75% of them do have
the potential to be successful books. Some could even become blockbusters.
Could yours be one of them? You'll never know unless you try.
Call us Toll Free today at 888-824-4344.
We're here to help you become a published author.
Thank you,
Stephanie Gayle
New Authors Development Division
Peterson Publishing Group