I fully understand the Catch-22 with getting an agent: Agents want someone who’s published before, but how can a person get published without an agent? As hard as it is, it happens all the time. All successful writers were once in the same boat you are, but they found a way to do it.—Nicholas Sparks
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Publishing-Related Articles and Videos
As a service to our clients, we have prepared a collection of articles related to different aspects of the publishing world. Here you will find information written by experts on everything from print-on-demand publishing to bookbinding to proofreading and copyediting. If you would like to contribute an article or if there is a topic you’d like us to cover, please e-mail our editors at editor@compassrose.com.
Electronic Publishing
Book Production
Editorial Process
- “Copy Editing”
- “Ghostwriter”
- “Manuscript”
- “Proofreading”
- “Style Guides”
- “What is Spell Checker?”
- “Working With a Freelance Editor”
Marketing
Just for Fun
As we are of the opinion that “all work and no play” makes for some very dull writing, we have pulled together a collection of articles and links that celebrate the writing life and the publishing world. We hope you enjoy them. If you have a link to suggest or a story to contribute, e-mail us at editor@compassrose.com.
- “Bad Grammar”
- “Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock: Unpack Your Adjectives”
- “Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock: Get Your Adverbs Here”
- “Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock: Conjunction Junction”
- “Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock: Interjection”
- “Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock: A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing”
- “Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock: The Tale of Mr. Morton”
- “Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock: Preposition”
- “Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock: Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla”
- “Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock: Verb, That's What's Happening”
- “Grammar Girl”
- “Grammar Survey”
- “Spell-Checker Blues”
- “Paperback Writer”
- “Grammarians-R-Pissed”
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