The Right Way to Market Your Book

      One of the great levels of service that Truesource Publishing provides is helping an author find a literary agent or PR specialist or business. The agent at Truesource is not the typical literary agent that you would see in the industry, they are not just people who get a book deal and negotiate a contract for you. A typical literary agent has always been somebody that finds authors and helps them get a book deal. That’s fine if they only thing you are doing is just trying to get a book deal, but authors need much more than that if they are going to be successful in this industry. An agent with Truesource Publishing is an agent, publicist, and business manager working on the author’s behalf beyond just getting a book deal. They are there to represent you as an author in all your endeavors and help you market your book. The agents that work with us are called Book Reps and they go beyond the normal range of service for you as an author.

   When you publish a book with Truesource Publishing we will help you find a Book Reps to help you with your book. We generally ask the author to help us find someone that they already know and have a good business relationship with that can represent them and someone that resides in the same area as the area so business can be conducted on a personal level. Even if they do not have a lot of experience at this kind of job we can always train an agent to work with us on your behalf. Now if an author does not have someone that can be their agent then Truesource Publishing will assign somebody to represent the author. The most important level service we can give an author is finding someone represent them and their book, but remember we are not looking for the typical literary agent for you.

    Now an agent or Book Rep with Truesource Publishing will always do more than the normal literary agent work in the industry. An agent is your publicist, your contract negotiator, marketing representative, and a general business manager. They will be a vital instrument in your success as an author through marketing and getting you appearances as an author like book signings. For these services, agents will make 10% of the author’s profits.Now depending on the success you accomplish for your client there are also bonuses involved  when you reach certain sales levels- you can make up to 15% of what your client makes from book sales, appearances, and any other work you client does where they are getting paid. This is determined specifically in your contract, but the standard is when 10,000 in book sales have been reached that the percentage will increase.  This job can be a full time or part time job. All Book Reps work in the division of Truesource Marketing-the marketing firm that handles all marketing and public relations for Truesource Media.

       Authors need to understand if a is representing you the commissions for your agent will come from the profits of your books being sold as well as merchandise and public appearances. This is because your agent is representing you on your behalf. An agent of representation for the use of marketing and advertising services and all that it entails will receive 10% of the author’s profits. If there is a bonus where the Book Rep will make 15% of the profits then the extra 5% will come from Truesource Publishing . This is included in the book contract. The services of a Book Rep can be negotiable and details of the agent of representation does will be outlined in the contract. If there is an event or deal where an author will make a profit based on their book being published with Truesource Publishing and the book is used to promote that event other regular book sales the agent fee still applies, but out of the 10%, 5% will go to Truesource Publishing as compensation for using our resources to make that event or deal possible (if its 15% then Truesource Publishing will still receive 5%).