title: Agents, Editors and You: The Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published (Writers Market Library)
author: Michelle Howry
description: The Herculean effort required to write a book can seem almost negligible when compared with the energy it takes to line up a hardworking agent, a caring editor, and an acceptable contract. <i>Agents, Editors, and You</i>, edited by Michelle Howry, is a substantial primer for the uninitiated. The book is divided into four sections: Preparing and Submitting Your Manuscript, Selling Your Manuscript, Publishing 101, and Trends in Publishing Today. Howry and the publishing professionals included here emphasize that just as a writer's work is scrutinized, so should the writer examine the work of the agent and the editor, the value of the contract, and the promotion plan. Issues of contemporary concern--e-queries, e-publishing, self-publishing, and even an odd riff on anthrax in the mail--are given their due. The many interviews with and essays by well-regarded agents and editors put a human face on what can often seem from the outside like a corporate monolith. And it is particularly nice to know that, at least according to Jonathan Galassi, editor in chief of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, "there's plenty of room for idealism in publishing today." <i>--Jane Steinberg</i>
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  To Colleen Hoover and Jamie McGuire. I wouldn't want to travel this road with
  anyone else. Knowing I have the both of you to talk to is priceless. I love
  your faces.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Acknowledgments
  
  
  
  
  
  I need to start by thanking my agent, Jane Dystel, who is beyond brilliant.
  The moment I signed with her was one of the smartest things I’ve ever done.
  Thank you, Jane, for helping me navigate through the waters of the publishing
  world. You are truly a badass.
  
  
  
  
  
  My amazing editor, Bethany Buck. She makes my stories better with her insight
  and always seems as excited about the Sea Breeze stories as I am. That makes
  it so much easier to create. Anna McKean, Paul Crichton, Mara Anastas, Carolyn
  Swerdloff, and the rest of the Simon Pulse team for all your hard work in
  getting my books out there.
  
  
  
  
  
  The friends that listen to me and understand me the way no one else in my life
  can: Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire, and Tammara Webber. You three have
  listened 