BookLocker.com Set the Stage for a Multi-Book Contract With a Traditional Publisher By Tom Douglas
As a Toronto-based freelance writer, I was often asked when I was going to write a book. When The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily newspaper, started buying articles about my life growing up in the wilds of Northern Ontario, I figured the time had come.
So I collected a number of both funny and poignant anecdotes I had written about my early life into a manuscript with the title Some Sunny Day. But, as an unpublished author, I found that it wasn’t easy to attract the interest of a traditional publishing house.