How the business actually works

Publishing and Industry is for the practical machinery: agents, queries, submissions, contracts, rights, advances, self publishing, hybrid deals, marketing, and what any of it actually pays.

No question is naive. Most of this information is deliberately hard to find, and a lot of what circulates is wrong.

If you have been through a process, say what actually happened. That is worth more than advice.

This space is public and searchable, so what we work out here helps writers who have not found us yet.