Any publishing companies that frequently publish young authors?

Because I want to publish my book, but, for one, I'm only a sophomore, two, I'm broke, and three, I cannot find anyone who will publish young authors. Anybody know publishers for authors of fiction stories?Any publishing companies that frequently publish young authors?
There is no one company that's dedicated to publishing young authors. Most authors are adults, and for good reason - children don't write well enough to be commercially published. If you've sent your work off to publishers and they've rejected you then chances are it's your manuscript that's flawed, not your age. Don't get me wrong, most adults write crap, which is why over 90% of manuscripts are rejected. THe rejection rate for teens and younger is higher because they tend to be even worse writers, lol. There are exceptions, but judging from how you've written your post, I can't see how your writing would be comparable to an adult's. It's more than writing, it's also plot and character development, making sure there aren't any plot holes, and knowing conventional writing styles.



If you want to send off your work then don't mention your age unless the publisher or agent asks for it. This will help them judge your work on it's merits. If they begin taking an interest in your work then you'll eventually have to disclose your age. But, as long as your work is written as well as the books you see on bookstore shelves, 99% of which are written by adults, then your age won't be a problem. THe problem with rejection isn't your age, but the low quality of work.



You say "stories," you've never been published so chances of you getting a bunch of stories published is nearly zero. Short stories aren't selling well and publishers are mostly publishing short stories by those who have already been published and established writers. You can look into selling your work to magazines, but it still has to be of top quality and you're still competing with professional writers, so don't think the short story market is easy to break into.



Contrary to what "wiseman" says, you don't pay to publish. Never during this process do you have to pay anything out of pocket. Once an agent sells your manuscript to a publisher then the publisher sends the check to the agent, the agent takes their cut out and sends you the rest. In the end, money should be going into your pocket, and you shouldn't pay a dime out of pocket. The exception is self-publishing, where you pay to play. You don't have money, so self-publishing is out of the question. But, of course, you would know this information for yourself if you do your homework and research instead of trying to get others to give you this information. It's a sign of laziness, and this could also be a sign that you're not serious about writing or getting published. If you want all that then you have to put in the work to learn about it.
Authors are made 鈥?not born at the first sign of christening and as long as you can write and pull off a manuscript at an early age of what, 6, you can be a published author.



Self-publishing is one venue for authors who wanted to test how their book will fare in the market.



To get into a contract, yes, you must have someone legal to assist you with it. Self-publishing will entail you to make a deposit before going through production and any financial transaction done should be legitimate.



How can you NOT publish? I have known of authors who started as early as 6 to 10- years old.



With parent鈥檚 consent, supervision and resources, these children are already raking exposure in the publishing industry as young as they are now.Any publishing companies that frequently publish young authors?
First of all, get your writing done first. make sure to edit and edit and edit and edit and edit until you are for sure that you edited enough and you can't edit anymore. take your time on it. some of the best books ever written took 5 years or more for the author to finish it! There are lots of agents/publishers that won't accept manuscripts (your book) that aren't finished.



After that, go through the writers market and look for an agent. make sure it's an agency that can represent the genre of book you're writing about. Example:



nonfiction: how to, biography;



fiction: juvenile, romance, horror, fantasy



write your query letter (single page cover letter introducing you and your book). go to this website http://www.agentquery.com/writer_hq.aspx to see what you should have in a query letter and how to make it look good for the agent. some agents want the first 3 chapters of your book.



when you send the query letter to an agent, you have to wait at least a day, a week, or even a month for them to respond back. A LOT OF AGENTS DON'T ACCEPT SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS (meaning, if you send one to an agent and another one to a different agent, he or she won't accept it). very rarely will they accept simultaneous submissions.



if an agent decides to represent you, he or she might want the whole entire manuscript to read it. now, the agent might want you to change some bits of stuff or even delete a certain scene of your book. (Stephenie Meyer's Twilight had a couple of chapters removed, and the book had 10,000 more words than the original copy.)



the agent would then send the manuscript to different publishing companies. Example: scholastics, simon%26amp;schuster, little, brown and company. If the publishing company accepts your manuscript, you're gonna have to wait around 1-2 years till it's published.



*if you ever decide to self publish, use createspace.com and publish your book there. creatspace was created by amazon and you can sell your books there. but you have to pay for copies of your book if you want to send it to major bookstores like barnes and nobles, and that won't be easy.



the publishing world is tough and competitive and creativity is the key. if you're writing a book about vampires and you think it's a bit cliche, don't let that get to you. it's originality that counts.



if you get rejected by an agent or a publishing company, take a deep breath and let it out. Then try again. even the best novelist were rejected! ex: Stephen king, stephenie meyer, j.k. rowling.



good luck!
You'll have to do the hard work. You go to them. CV, Synopsis of the book, length, one or two chapters. Keep notes who you send it too - if they gets yours twice they won't look at you the second time. (or Never) Also make certain they do publish that genre of story, they have copy readers. Those get paid by how many copies they read and not by how many they approve of, for a second reading.

Peace.



P.S. Money is your problem - a good indicator of how serious you are. Sell your ipod, wii, 360 etc.Any publishing companies that frequently publish young authors?
Penguin Books

Delacorte

Putnam

Riverside

ROC

Viking



All either publisher YA novels or have full lines dedicated to them. Bear in mind, however, that does not mean they publish "young authors". It's the quality of the work that matters, not the age of the author.