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Statement of purpose
Sep. 12th, 2016 01:55 pmSoon, I'll begin the process of trying to find an agent and hopefully getting my book, "Project E," published traditionally.
The process of finding an agent can be long, hard, and demoralizing. And even landing an agent doesn't necessarily mean you'll get published. So this is what I'm telling myself to keep my spirits up during the road ahead:
I could send my manuscript to a small publisher. I'm reasonably confident that I can get published by them, since I've read some of the books they've published (well...under one of their imprints, to be fair), and I'm pretty sure I'm as good as if not better than those. It would be an easy process, too—I could submit directly to them, without an agent, and they'll get back to me within a certain time frame.
In the worst case scenario, I could also self-publish. My parents have told me that, for my first book, "Just get it published, it doesn't matter where, so you can have a physical product in your hands." And true, that's what I mostly care about for Project E in particular.
But I've decided to go the hard route and query agents.
I don't know how "good" Project E will be to a mass audience; I don't know if it's mass-market marketable. But I think it could be good. I think it could be worthy of publication by a big publisher.
So I'm going to go for it, because I believe in my story. Maybe it won't find a home with a big publisher in the end, but if I believe in my work, if I believe in the quality of my work, I owe it to myself to try.
The process of finding an agent can be long, hard, and demoralizing. And even landing an agent doesn't necessarily mean you'll get published. So this is what I'm telling myself to keep my spirits up during the road ahead:
I could send my manuscript to a small publisher. I'm reasonably confident that I can get published by them, since I've read some of the books they've published (well...under one of their imprints, to be fair), and I'm pretty sure I'm as good as if not better than those. It would be an easy process, too—I could submit directly to them, without an agent, and they'll get back to me within a certain time frame.
In the worst case scenario, I could also self-publish. My parents have told me that, for my first book, "Just get it published, it doesn't matter where, so you can have a physical product in your hands." And true, that's what I mostly care about for Project E in particular.
But I've decided to go the hard route and query agents.
I don't know how "good" Project E will be to a mass audience; I don't know if it's mass-market marketable. But I think it could be good. I think it could be worthy of publication by a big publisher.
So I'm going to go for it, because I believe in my story. Maybe it won't find a home with a big publisher in the end, but if I believe in my work, if I believe in the quality of my work, I owe it to myself to try.
