How old do you have to be to publish a book?
*smile* Congratulations on writing a book. There is no age limit on when you can contact publishers and agents to start trying to get your book out there. However, I strongly recommend that you get your parents on board with this, as I don't believe you can sign a contract yourself if you're under 18. Good luck!
Can a 12 year old publish a book?
Yes - you can author and publish a book. If you want to self-publish and want to have print, Kindle, and distribution through Amazon all in one stop, you should check out Createspace. They have templates, instructions, and tools there. Self Publishing and Free Distribution for Books, CD, DVD You may want to contract for someone to do the cover. For example, you can contract for eBook and print covers on sites like Fiverr Fiverr: The Marketplace for Creative & Professional ServicesIf you self-publish, just want to print, and also want to self-distribute, you could try Nook printing. NOOK® Press by Barnes & Noble I don’t necessarily recommend this route, but it is an easier way to get your hands on printed copies because there are fewer quality control hurdles to jump through compared to Createspace. I believe Nook offers hardcover books too.Note that if you use the Createspace templates for book interiors, some of them can be directly used for Nook. So see if the Createspace templates work for you.There are other routes, such as proposing books to a publisher, but I wanted to keep my answer somewhat short for you.Hope this helps some as you gather more info. Good luck!
How old do you have to be to publish a book, and how do you do it?
First of all let me suggest that you get a copy of "How to Get Happily Published", by Judith Appelbaum, from your library or book store. It will give you a lot more detail about the process. But here are some answers: 1. No minimum age. You can do it! If you are under 18 you may get to have your parent's signature on the contracts or other legal documents, though. 2. A legitimate publisher will pay you. You don't pay them. There are companies that will print your book if you pay them, but they aren't "publishers," even though they may call themselves that. 3. Usually you get an "advance," and then if the book sells more than a certain number of copies, you get additional money, called "royalties," for each copy sold. For example, for one of my books, I got $10,000 as an advance, and if it had sold more than 15,000 copies (which it didn't, unfortunately) I would have gotten about a dollar per additional copy sold after that. But the numbers vary greatly from book to book. It's good to have an agent (read about that in the book I recommended at the top) to negotiate all this stuff for you. People like Hillary Clinton or George Bush get advances like $3 million, but you and I won't :-) 4. Yes, you can mention them. You need to be sure not to write anything slanderous about them, but the publisher's legal department will probably warn you if you've done that. If you just mention that somebody listened to a Lady Gaga song and then went to Burger King for lunch, that's OK. If you say that Lady Gaga is a bank robber and that Burger King killed 50,000 people with tainted meat, that is not OK. (Well, Lady G. has a sense of humor and might actually enjoy the publicity that would give her, but don't try it.) And despite what a previous answer said, you don't italicize these names. 5. You can find out about a lot of publishers in the annual directory Writer's Market, available at many libraries and bookstores and, for a fee, online. You have to narrow down which publishers you send your manuscript to. If you are writing a romance novel, don't send it to a company that only publishes car-repair manuals or science fiction. 6. Your work is automatically copyrighted the minute you write it. The publisher (if it's a legitimate publisher) will take care of doing the legal mumbo-jumbo of registering the copyright with the government, which makes your copyright even safer. Good luck.
Can a 13-year-old get a book published?
In this day and age, there are a few options - you can submit the manuscript to a publishing house (getting an agent first helps). Parental involvement would be required for any contracts. If the work is good enough, and they like it, they would make an offer. You’d get paid, they’d do the cover and editing, and then they’d give you minimal (almost no) help with the marketing. If the book is good, it would probably take 3 to 6 years to get it accepted by someone, and see it in print. If it’s not good enough, then never.Or, you can hire an editor (absolutely crucial), and self-publish the work using a service such as KDP or CreateSpace, Lulu, or Smashwords (or all of these). You would need to pay the editor, pay a cover artist, and either pay someone to do the formatting, or learn to format the book properly yourself. You would do all the marketing yourself. On the up-side, if you did all of these things WELL, and your book is good, then you would make more money than if you’d sold it to a publisher. The first few years would just be recouping the cost of what you spent to publish it - after that, it’d be all profit. IF it’s good, and well-marketed.It’s rough - few 13-year-olds have the writing skills to produce a professional quality book. But I’m not going to tell you that you CAN’T do it. After all, Eragon was written by a 15-year-old. At 16, he fleshed out the book and revised it. His parents saw it, and self-published it. He then toured the country promoting it. His work was discovered by Carl Hiaason, an established journalist and novelist, who got it accepted by publisher Alfred A. Knopf — the rest is history.My best advice is to be patient. Hone your writing skills by writing often. Join editing and critique groups, and develop a VERY thick skin - you must be able to take criticism, and use it to improve your work rather than letting it discourage you. Don’t publish a book prematurely - if it’s not as well-written as a book on your shelf, then it’s not ready yet. Take your time to make sure it’s ready before you think of publishing it.
Can a kid under 10 years old publish a book?
Yes, but you will probably need an adult to sign the legal papers on your behalf.
Can a kid write a book AND get it published?
i'm only 12 but i think im destined to write a book im already in the middle of it and i think its pretty good but after i write it can i legally get it published without spending alot of money cause my whole family is flat out broke? should i just give up now and focus on something different or pursue my dream? please help!!!!
Is 12 years old too young to publish a book?
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