| This week we give you a very special edition: How To Get Your Book Published. Guests: Literary Agent Margaret O'Connor-Chumley of the Renaissance Literary and Talent Agency and Sarah-Jane Stratford, Author of The Midnight Guardian (2009, St. Martin's Press). Host Mark Jeffrey opened the show describing the 'three steps' to getting you book from your hard drive to the book store, and promised that the three participants would go into detail describing their own experience with the process. Mark introduced Margaret first, revealing that she is his own agent, and noting that Margaret sold his book very fast: within about four month of meeting. Next he introduced Sarah-Jane, and held up her book THE MIDNIGHT GUARDIAN, describing it as 'Vampire vs. Nazi's in WWII Germany.' Sarah-Jane elaborated on this description, and described her trip to Bogota, Columbia briefly. Mark noted that This Week In Books is a re-boot of the previous 'Bibliotech' show, and that there are past episodes that include interviews with Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood, Scott Sigler and Goodreads founder Otis Chandler, among others. He also noted that the ThisWeekIn.com network currently boasted 17 shows and they could be found in iTunes, YouTube and other outlets. Then. they dove into the questions: STEP ONE: GET AN AGENT - Do you actually need an agent to get published? Why? Margaret of course said that you DO need an agent; the large publishers simply will not speak with you otherwise. Mark agreed very ... |
