How to Get Published

A Rerun

By Al Kalar

Writers write

Copyrights aren’t just one thing; they’re a bundle of rights. Examples:

• First North American rights
• First World rights
• First hard cover rights
• Electronic rights
• Movie rights
• Television rights
• Exclusive rights for a period of time
• Non-competition rights (no sales to another magazine for instance)
• and so on.

You’ve found a publisher. Now, which rights do you sell to them? (more…)

A Rerun

By Al Kalar

If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it.

Your book is cleaned up. You’ve created a masterpiece that will appeal to a targeted segment of readers (or who knows, a blockbuster best seller?). The first paragraph of your book “sings” and will hook the reader into a ride that won’t let him/her go until the last sentence.

So, how do you go about finding a publisher? (more…)