Advice?

*Andharian Nov 6, 2012 Student General Artist

I need super important advice! If someone wants to publish a book, how do they do it? I need to know in full-full detail! Like, do you go to the publishing firm you`ve chosen yourself, or with an agent? How do you get an agent? Do you get an agent before or after contacting a firm? How is a book advertised? What are good publishing firms? So you just hand them the book or what? Help!
Could someone please tell me the whole process step-by-step? It would clear up so many problems for me! Thank you! c:

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~brody-lover Nov 6, 2012 Professional General Artist

lulu.com has a self publishing service and they can send out your book to amazon and a few other booksellers. It's about $60 to do. The only thing is, there are no editors there for you, so you have to do all of that work yourself.
If you want to get published by an actual company, go to your library, find books of the same genre and find their publishers. Send them a query. Only if they are interested in your query should you send them a manuscript. Act as if they are the only publisher in the world (only submit to maybe 3 publishers at a time but dont let them know!) There is a lot of info and samples of queries and manuscript formats on about.com