Getting a book published is a lot like becoming an A list celebrity.

Getting a book published is a lot like becoming an A list celebrity.

First, you need to get an agent. just like Agents for singer or actors don't actually have anything to do with your singing or acting, Agents for book don't publish the book. However, in order to even get a publisher to glance at anything you've written you need an agent. Getting an agent is as hard as getting a publisher, or maybe harder because you have to do this part yourself. But your agents know the publishers, so just like in hollywood, its all about connections.
I don't have an agents yet, so as of now my book is being edited by a talented up and coming Science Fiction author, who wrote the up-and-comming book Lumairs Last Hope. (she has an Agent, but I want her to look at my book before i send any more queries out.) Getting an Agents is a lot like passing the first addition for American Idol. So after I get an Agents I will be well on my way to the next round in hollywood, where I will either crash or burn.

Next, you need a publisher. They do the publishing. i have no ideal how this works, but your Agent and your publisher will both get a percentage of how much your book sells for. So, you need your book to sell. As every A-list celebrity knows, PR is important.

Now I'm a journalism major so i know what PR is, but in case you don't it stands for Public Relations. Celebrities have PR people just to help them stay famous, or to help their Image. For an author, PR will help get awareness of your book and make people want to read it. I think the fact that I'm only 19 will be a good PR bit if my book sells. I can inspire other young aspiring authors to write. This will be achieved through interviews and book singings, ect. I get to be on the other end of the interview. How exciting.

If you get an agent, publisher, and your book sells, you become an A-list celebrity of all the little harry potter carrying, twilight shirt wearing, nerdfighting children of the world. (not that there is anything wrong with any of that. I love to read, and so dose almost any author.) You get the tittle of American Author, until next year (or probably week) when a new YA book is published. And this is the prize I aim to achieve.