What helped get his detective novels noticed by publishers - Paul Leonard Williams, Tom Ray's Art Podcast Clip
What process helped this writer get his novel noticed when submitting it to publishers? I met the writer Paul Leonard Williams on my podcast . Paul writes a detective novel series and he told me one of the things that he discovered that not only helped his writing but also helped it get noticed by publishers. You write a whole book and now you're gonna put it out there. I don't know if you started with the publisher that you have or if you were putting stuff out there first? I was very very lucky in that I had a friend who used to be in the industry. He was a screener. So he was the guy that decides, does this go in the circular file or do we want to pay this attention. So he told me some wonderful things that really helped me out. First of all, you got to grab the screener's attention, the publisher's attention in the first two paragraphs. If you haven't they're probably not going to make it past the first page or the second page and you're forgotten ab...