Be Your Own Literary Agent offers the insights and hard-to-get knowledge that every aspiring author years for, from pitching their book and finding the ideal editor, to getting the most out of a contract and getting their book produced correctly. Be Your Own Literary Agent addresses the aspiring writer with an encouraging and direct voice, describes what a writer should include in a proposal, how to target the right publisher and improve the odds of having a proposal read and accepted, judgment processes, and turnaround time. Be Your Own Literary Agent also provides model proposals and whips through a quick course in contract negotiation so a writer can act like a professional author and agent when called to duty. The Tool Kit (five appendices) provides the tools needed to be an expert author-agent: Pub Speak: The Publishing Industry's Private Language; How to Use the Literary Market Place (LMP) to find a publisher and editor; Best Bets: The Publishers Most Likely to Read and Accept Your Book; Manuscript Submission Records; and References: Some Other Books You Might Wish to Read. Be Your Own Literary Agent is the essential resource for the writer in search of a publisher! Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.