How to have a career as a writer
Posted on July 24th, 2012
This is a third extract from my new ebook, Get Published. This one is towards the end of the book, looking at the big picture of being a published author.
Are you winning the war?
Kelly Gottuso Mortimer from Mortimer Literary Agency has this advice for writers. ‘Don’t concentrate on winning the battle (getting published); concentrate on winning the war (staying published – having a career as a writer!).’ Publishers and readers love writers who keep on delivering, who follow up one fantastic book with another, then another. Foundry Literary + Media’s Molly Glick says, ‘we’re always in search of “the one” – the author we can break out big, and grow from book to book.’
If you truly feel you have only one book in you, I suggest you think hard about whether the traditional publishing path is for you. Maybe you should publish your one book independently and bask in the glow of having achieved that one thing under your own steam, rather than seeking a relationship with an agent and a publisher and a readership that will end with this one book.
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I loved hearing this, I feel I have so many books in me. I just got my first book published, (self published Two Sisters Torn/ fictional romance). I already have another one written. (a murder myestery Lies/ Manipulation/ Murder)*not published yet.
I love writing and I hope to be able to become a consistently productive good writer….
Mary Carr Jackson
P.S. Thanks for giving, we expiring writers, your words of wisdom.
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