I am in the process of writing my first nonfiction book and after all these years I suddenly have the urge to continue after this one is complete.
For years I pondered the idea of being a writer for a living, so to speak, but never persued it. I do not have a formal education besides a smattering of college, but I have always been complimented on things I have written. Sometimes it is just a friend who picks up a journal of mine with random thoughts who asks me this question, and sometimes it comes after my husband passes a short story of mine around at work. I hear the same thing time and again: Why on earth don't you do this for a living?
I have been doing a bit of research and the first thing I have learned is that most publishers I have found require that I have an agent. I do not know anything of the protocol in regard to finding an agent, so I am wondering what I would need. It seems that there are many rules regarding what I would need to have ready to present and also how to go about contacting an agent. I am completely clueless and don't want to shoot myself in the foot before I have a chance to begin.
Can anyone offer suggestions?
Thank you,
~~Carole
For years I pondered the idea of being a writer for a living, so to speak, but never persued it. I do not have a formal education besides a smattering of college, but I have always been complimented on things I have written. Sometimes it is just a friend who picks up a journal of mine with random thoughts who asks me this question, and sometimes it comes after my husband passes a short story of mine around at work. I hear the same thing time and again: Why on earth don't you do this for a living?
I have been doing a bit of research and the first thing I have learned is that most publishers I have found require that I have an agent. I do not know anything of the protocol in regard to finding an agent, so I am wondering what I would need. It seems that there are many rules regarding what I would need to have ready to present and also how to go about contacting an agent. I am completely clueless and don't want to shoot myself in the foot before I have a chance to begin.
Can anyone offer suggestions?
Thank you,
~~Carole