How Writers Can Get Their Books Published By International Publishers from Their Homes

If you are a writer and have written a book, but have not been able to get local publishers to publish it; or you have a book idea, but are afraid to go ahead with it because you are not sure you will ever be able to get it published, then you have to read this article.

It can be really painful as a writer to put in so much time into a book, which you believe could be an instant best seller only to be turned down repeatedly by all the publishers in town.

But there is good news. Indeed, one of the good things the Internet provides is the opportunity for writers who have books to publish to access international publishers and get the book published without needing to make contact with the publishers physically.

I will give you the step-by-step process writers can follow to get their books published by international publishers.

Get copyright protection for your book: the first thing you will have to do before approaching International publishers is to protect your work from being illegally copied or stolen. And that means you have to obtain the copyright for your book as the writer. If you didn’t obtain the copyright to your book and someone else does it before you under their name, then you will lose ownership of the work, and it will be taken you never wrote the book – and there goes the money you would have made from it as the writer.

The good thing is that writers can obtain international copyright protection for their book by registering it with the Copyright Registration Service through the Internet. Registering your work with the CRS provides independent third-party verification of the ownership of your work, helping to protect your rights and avoid lengthy and/or unsuccessful legal proceedings.

CRS allow writers to send soft copies of some chapters of their book to them. That means you don’t have to print out the book, or worry about the cost of sending it by post or courier to them. All writers are required to do is to email some parts of their book in MS word or PDF format, etc to CRS for them to assess and confirm the writer’s true ownership before they are registered as the owner of the work.

Also, the charge the writer will pay for the registration is minimal and only covers administrative cost, and they can equally make the payment online using any the many credit or debit cards available to them.

No doubt, it is easy and very affordable to register your book and own the copyright to it as the writer of the work. Check out CRS for more details.

Find the right literary agents to handle your work:

In the book industry, a literary agent is one who represents writers and presents their written work to publishers, film producers and theatrical producers. They help writers to negotiate contracts with publishers and other people that might likely use the book, such as TV and movie producers.

They are well experienced in the book industry, and know how to approach publishers, especially the big ones who don’t deal directly with writers, as well as provide advice and guidance to writers on the right part to go in making their books published and be able to make good money from them.

You will need to find a good literary agent to handle your brief, giving you the freedom to concentrate on developing the book to publishing standard and also on other writing projects.

There are many literary agents who work with writers, and you can find them on the Internet. But, you have to be careful not to get scammed because there are also a lot of scammers out there who parade themselves as writers agents, but all they are after is to disposes writers of their money. Here is how to identify a genuine literary agent from a fraudster:

Genuine literary agents will not ask writers to pay any money whatsoever to help them find publishers for their books; neither do they refer writers to any paid-for service.

Their service is absolute at no cost to the writer. If they take on your book project and find a publisher for it, they will be compensated by taking a percentage of sales made on the book. They usually take from 10 to 20 percent of sales of the book, if there are no sales, then no payment for them.

This is good news for writers because if you can get a literary agent to take up your book, they will have to put in their very best to ensure the book is published.

On the other hand, fraudulent literary agents will ask the writer to pay for reading fees, operating expenses, etc. Some will even ask the writer to pay them some money to retain their service. If you run into a so called literary agent, asking for these things, please run away.

Also, be aware of an agent referring you to an “expert editor” or “book doctor” to help you put the book in good state for publishing- these are scam tactics to be mindful of. The bottom line here is that to avoid losing your money to scammers, don’t allow anyone to hoodwink you to paying them money in the guise of helping you to get your book published.

Writers can find genuine literary agents at the Association of Authors’ Representatives website: http://www.aar-online.org/mc/page.do. However, because not all genuine literary agents belong to the association, your search for one might be limited.

Therefore, for a more elaborate list of genuine literary agents who writers can find to get their books published, I recommend you check out this site: Find literary agents for your book project. You will find all you need to locate literary agents of your choice, including their contact addresses.

After getting the contacts of literary agents and you begin to reach out to them to indicate your interest in them handling your book, it is likely you might get some turning you down; this is very likely in the book industry. However, don’t give up too soon after a few turn downs. Instead, keep up searching until you find one – there are lots of them, and I’m sure you will find it.

And when you get a literary agent, you can relax and be sure you are on your way to making big money and enjoying the good life of writers elsewhere in the world. You may never know your book can be best seller and turned into films, etc.