9. Ideas Can Change Over Time Things Go In And Out Of Fashion
If, for example, your novel is about young teenage vampires in the northwestern United States, your idea probably does not have its own leg to stand on in a saturated market of similar novels. It is a game of chance in many ways that people dont steal your ideas just because they are fairly large and generic. Make your text different in ways that others cannot mimic. Your writing can be like your signature with regards to the style as well as the content. This means that your writing can never go out of fashion. That being said you have to know your market and know what kinds of areas are going in and out of style.
8. Timing
tumblrThis is similar to the previous post on the list. Most independent publishers will have a quota of books that they publish every year. When their calendar for titles starts and finishes is usually on their website. Dont submit work towards the end of this cycle otherwise you will be among thousands of potential submissions that are all fighting for the last space. If you can scope out the publisher before you submit, you can give yourself an edge over the competition.
7. You Probably Need A Literary Agent
literaryrejections.comIf you want your work to be picked up by a major publisher (I.e Penguin Books Ltd.) you will need the backing of a literary agent to make sure that your manuscript finds its way to the right desk. Even then you are still battling against an astronomically high amount of submissions. If you dont have a literary agent, these companies will almost definitely delete your email or recycle your manuscript before reading it its a cruel market but they have to thin out submissions one way or another. Literary agents can help you throughout the process but you will likely be spending more money than you want.If you want to make it on your own steam, independent publishers are usually much more open to reading unsolicited manuscripts.