There are lot of jotter publishers looking for compelling career stories. A existence novel can prompt not alone to a escape as a fruitful hardback textbook, it can snap into an lingering, yet else efficacious flight as a paperback. Provided your life story is compelling Sufficiently, there's always a opportunity someone Testament pay for the film rights and your clothesline Testament be written and produced for the bull Shade. Here are some tips and strategies to lift you turn your excitement version into a advantageous jotter.
Find Your Story's Purpose
Catch the animus of your chestnut. Eventuate by identifying the motive you consider your heart story will be of enough value that a publisher will want to publish it. The story of someone becoming a superstar in the Olympics isn't going to be high on a publisher's list, but a narrative about an Olympian who suffered a severe accident as a child and was told they would never walk again is a narrative a publisher would definitely take a Stare at.
They are important to you because they belong to you. Learn to recognize those events in your life that are of no interest to the audience you want to target for your story. A bunch of childhood memories strung together don't constitute a life story a publisher will want to publish.
Eliminate the Mundane
Eliminate anything that doesn't support the focus of your story. No matter how important or special many of the events in your life are to you, they won't mean anything to the book-buying public. Write and rewrite until you have a polished draft that presents your life story with the story's purpose intact.Find a Publisher
Find a publisher for your story. The Writer's Market published by Writer's Digest books is the best resource for this purpose. You can purchase the book or sign up for the Writer's Digest database online. The online is updated daily, so it's a better option. The Writer's Market lists short story and novel markets, gives you contact information for publishers, tells you the type of manuscript you can submit, submit, who to address it to, and what the payment terms will be. Choose a publisher that handles nonfiction life stories that resemble your life story, prepare your submission according to guidelines, and make your submission. Allow the appropriate time frame before you do a follow up on your submission. If you're rejected by one publisher, don't get discouraged. Move on to the next.
