Every aspiring author wants to get published - many more than the publishing industry can handle. Getting published is a daunting task. This Smart Guide will provide the aspiring author with all the inside information and insider's tips and advice they need to know to gain an advantage in the highly competitive task of garnering the interest of a publisher or editor. Long time literary agents Mary Sue Seymour and Nicole Resciniti reveal their many years of knowledge as literary agents to the readers of this book providing advice in every aspect of getting published including nonfiction books. fiction, short stories as books or for magazines, magazine articles and, poetry. The provide the basics in planning your literary work, writing proposals to editors and publishers, getting organized and most important, what not to do when approaching a publisher. This is the essential book for anyone who seeks to get a literary work published and no author who wishes to see his/her name in print should do without it.