77 Reasons Why Your Book Was Rejected

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77 Reasons Why Your Book Was Rejected
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Written by Mike Nappa, available as an e-book and in print version at Amazon.

The author’s experiences as acquisitions editor, marketing copywriter, and literary agent uniquely qualify him to write on this topic.  He is also the author of more than 40 books and has personally received more than 2,000 book rejections during his writing career!

The book is divided into three sections: Editorial, Marketing and Sales Reasons for Rejection. Starting with: “It takes less than a minute to reject your book” (by big publishers that is).  Mike Nappa goes on with all the legitimate and also the silliest reasons your manuscript or book idea might be rejected. Many reasons have nothing to do with the quality of your writing.
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An editor is going to look at your proposal – and if it doesn’t meet certain editorial standards, it will go no farther.  If it passes basic editorial scrutiny, an editor will then consider whether you have done your “marketing” homework — analyzed and defined your audience, established a platform, shown that you know how and why this book will sell.  From there, the editor will need to convince the publisher that they can sell this book, and sell enough to merit the investment in its publication.

Perhaps the clearest message that emerges from this book is that getting published is a lot of work.  The job doesn’t end when you finish writing the last chapter.  Publishers are in the business of selling a product, and it’s your job to convince them that your book will sell, to proof them your author platform and explain how you will market your book.

Or maybe you will decide to author publish.  After all you have to do your book marketing anyway, even if your book is accepted by a commercial publisher.  “Success is the best revenge” 

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