Thursday, August 1st at 12pm PDT
A FREE Virtual Event
A Lunch and Learn with Peter Rubie on Zoom
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Ask a Publisher AMA
As everyone probably knows, you or your agent needs to get your book or proposal into the hands of an interested editor; that’s the first hurdle.
A well-crafted proposal, an agent with good relationships, and choosing the right editors to approach are the first steps.
What most would-be authors don’t know is that the editor has to turn around and sell you to an editorial board. The sales management, more often than not, makes the decisions.
If sales and marketing think they can sell your book, then you’ve got a wonderful chance of getting published.
So how do you sell your book to a publisher?
If it’s your first book, you have no Nielsen Bookscan number to get in the way. That can be a blessing, but you have to prove that you are an “influencer” that can sell your book and provide the publisher’s sales force with the ammo they need to go out to the trade.
Publishing veteran Peter Rubie will help you navigate the rapids of book publishing so you can find the perfect home for your books. Bring all your questions about book publishing so you can learn from some of the best in the business!
Peter Rubie has been in New York publishing as an agent, editor, and published writer for nearly forty years. He is the CEO of FinePrint Literary Management, an NYC-based literary agency with 5 active agents, and began in publishing working as a freelance reader and freelance editor for major “Big Six” publishers (as they were then) before becoming the adult fiction editor at Walker & Co. from 1985 to 1991. He became an agent in 1992 and formed his own agency in 1998.
Besides working in publishing as an agent and editor, he was also an adjunct professor in the New York University publishing faculty for 10 years, where he taught the only university-level course in the country on how to become a literary agent. He is known for working closely, editorially, with his clients to bring projects to their fullest potential before submitting them. Over the years, several of his authors have become NY Times bestsellers and award-winning writers.
Peter represents a broad range of high-quality fiction and non-fiction. He specializes in children’s books, particularly middle grade, and some picture books. For adult books, he specializes in narrative non-fiction such as memoirs; biographies; history and current affairs; books on business; popular science and technology; parenting; music; food; and in adult fiction, crime novels; thrillers; commercial woman’s fiction; fantasy; science fiction; and some literary fiction.
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