Market Research

Sometimes it can be fun and other times it feels like your banging your head against a wall. We've all heard the cry that more and more publishers are no longer accepting unagented submissions. I don't know if that's necessarily true and some advice will tell you to ignore the unagented road sign and go ahead and submit to them anyway. That is of course up to you.

In doing some basic market research I found about 19 publishers so far that take the genre that I've written. Out of those 19, seven of them say they only accept submissions from agents. Not bad. And this was only after looking through one market guide. I went to order the new Writer's Market for novels and was disappointed to see the bad reviews for it. Anyway, have the current edition? Is it as riddled with mistakes as the reviews state? Trying to decide if I should wait for the 2011 edition on that one.

I've been perusing various websites with publisher lists. Do you have any favorites?

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  1. Shannon O'DonnellFebruary 25, 2010 at 8:41 PM

    Boy, I haven't done the search lately. I think I used to like Publishers Marketplace. I LOVE the Guide to Literary Agents website, though! :-)

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  2. UnknownFebruary 26, 2010 at 9:16 AM

    I think I've been to Publishers Marketplace a few times. Though I haven't joined to have full access. I might have to try it out. I also really liked the QueryTracker.net website for agents and I know they are adding more publishers, but they don't have them all yet.

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