As some of you know I’ve had some success in marketing my work to foreign publishers in Germany, Italy, Russia and Poland. But that’s just a small drop in a very large pond. There are a lot of excellent foreign publishers out there that I would like to work with and I’ve decided to approach several of them over the next few weeks to see 
what I can accomplish.
So how would I go about doing that?
That’s exactly the question this short series is going to answer.
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In the first part of this series I spent some time discussing the benefits that can be gained by actively pursuing foreign rights sales as a fundamental part of your career. For the next couple of posts, I want to talk about the actual process I use to try and sell a project to a foreign publisher or to recruit a foreign agent to do so on my behalf.
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In the first part of this series, we examined the benefits of pursuing subsidiary rights sales to foreign publishers. In the second installment we began doing some research into a prospective publisher to determine if they might be a suitable target to query. Now we’re going to finish up our research and make some final determinations regarding whether to move forward or look for a different opportunity.
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Once I had selected a foreign publisher and decided to approach them about the possibility of publishing some of my work, I would next need to write an introductory query letter or email to catch their attention. Like most of what I do, I usually approach this process in a step-by-step fashion:
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Our series on Selling to a Foreign Publisher continues as we draft a hypothetical query letter that we would use to try and generate some interest from our target publisher. As I outlined in my last post, I would be about three quarters of the way done with the letter itself at this point, having already decided on which of my works to pitch to the publisher and what I want to say about them. Now the next step would be to add a few high points that explain why the publisher would benefit from acquiring the foreign rights to my work rather than some other work that they might be considering at the same time.
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