Making Her Own Good Fortune: How Marie Carter's Love of Writing & NYC Brought Her Book Publishing Success

Making Her Own Good Fortune: How Marie Carter's Love of Writing & NYC Brought Her Book Publishing Success

For my latest author Q&A, I'm delighted to feature Marie Carter, a good friend whose publishing journey I've followed for over fifteen years. Marie's publications include a memoir with a small press, a self-published novel, and most recently, a nonfiction book. Learn about Marie's different publishing experiences and how her "very targeted approach" to querying quickly landed her an agent for her book Mortimer and the Witches, which released in March from Fordham University Press.

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Should You Publish Your Book With a Small Press?

Should You Publish Your Book With a Small Press?

Small presses have produced Pulitzer Prize winners and International Booker Prize finalists, in spite of sometimes limited budgets or distribution. But not all small presses achieve the same level of success. In some cases, signing with a small press can hinder rather than help a writer’s career, as the Writer Beware website and blog warns. To get a better sense of the nuances of small press publishing, I spoke with literary agents Michelle Brower of Aetivas Literary Management and Jennifer Chen Tran of Bradford Literary.

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