So, I need your help...?

[paderangi]

I've stumbled upon some great news: After 2 years of writing, editing, refining, and more editing, people are LOVING my book! Even the current version in the final editing phase which includes sparse typos and grammatical fumbles are being accepted!

My question to you is, "Where do I go next?"

I've contact agents from agentsquery.com but I know that they take at least a few weeks to respond (probably from the unbelievable amount of queries they receive)

Do I continue looking for an agent? Copyrights? Contacting publishers directly? I just don't know!

Any piece of advice would really help.

Also, if you're interested in finding out more about my zombie trilogy that I'm hoping will completely revolutionize the zombie horror genre, contact me directly at https://twitter.com/paderangi and I will be sure to accommodate you in any way possible!

Thanks for reading my question guys!

[michele]

Yes, continue querying agents until you get a bite (e.g., a request for a full).

You're more likely looking at *months* rather than a few weeks as far as responses.

While you're waiting, start your next novel.

Good luck,
~Dr. B.~

[Assign]

You need to advertise your work in an open platform, like movies have trailers you should extract short stories from your book. Then you post these stories at an open platform, one I know which is good is OnParables.com

There people read your work and get interested and would be willing to invest more time in reading your entire book. Also there are famous authors at OnParables.com who "might" give you good feedback or contacts etc...

Hope this helps!

[Lynn]

Well, contacting agents is a waste of postage at this point, since you know there are still problems with your novel.

So here are the real steps in how to get published:
1. Learn how to write a darn good story by reading books about how to do that.
2. Write the story based on everything you've learned.
3. Go back to fix the major and minor screw ups. (Like the main characters had brown eyes in chapter 1, but green eyes in chapter 8, you told the same thing twice, because you forgot you had already written that before, or you jumped over a couple of steps in the story to save space, but then you realize you need to show those steps to.)
4. Go back to revise your story to fit within all you've learned.
5. Revise, revise, revise, and then edit, edit, edit, until you just can't make it prettier.
6. Find other writers also working on their novels to critique their stories, while they critique yours.
7. Go back over your story, based on their critiques. (Revise, revise, revise, and then edit, edit, edit, until you just can't make it prettier, again.
8. Repeat 6 and 7, until they start nitpicking the most minor of things, because you can't ever make a novel perfect, or agreeable to everyone.
9. By the time you do all that stuff, you'll start learning just enough information about the publishing end of the business, to figure it out yourself most of the way, and for the stuff you don't get, you'll know enough other writers to ask questions. (This is going to be 3-5 years from now, if you hustle...longer if you dawdle.)