From the course: Sell Your Novel to a Major Publisher

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The publisher submission process

The publisher submission process

- [Instructor] So you've just signed with your first agent. Congratulations. What happens now? Well in a nutshell, now your agent is going to go off and sell your novel to a major publisher. It's all very exciting and I assure you, if you've made it this far, you've made it past the hump. Remember that agents are the gatekeepers of the publishing industry. They act as filters, weeding through thousands and thousands of submissions and manuscripts to find the authors that they think are sellable. So give yourself a big pat on the back because if you're at this stage of the process, you, my friend, are one of those authors. Now of course there are no guarantees that any book will sell to a publisher, but let's just say your odds of getting published are considerably higher at this point. I know you're probably wondering what to expect from this point on, so that's what we're going to spend the next few lectures focusing on. As always, I'll give you a quick overview of the entire process…

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