Author Archive for kellermedia

The Self Published Book Success Predictor Test

Take this fun, easy test to fig­ure out SUPER FAST if the book you so lov­ingly self pub­lished can now be sold to a “real” pub­lisher so you can focus on just the fun stuff: media appear­ances, book­store sign­ings, paid speeches, using the book to grow your busi­ness or brand, that kind of stuff.

Got A Great Book Idea?

Have you got a great idea for a non­fic­tion book? We’d love to hear about it. Either click “Sub­mit Your Book” from the home page or go to www.KellerMedia.com/query. If you don’t know how to write a good query, read the help­ful free arti­cle below for some help­ful pointers.

Welcome to Keller Media!

Keller Media, Inc. guides tal­ented peo­ple to achieve greater suc­cess as pub­lished authors and highly paid speak­ers. If you’ve got a great idea and the pas­sion to deliver it to the pub­lic, you’ve come to the right place. We spe­cial­ize in help­ing you profit from your idea and max­i­mize the impact your con­tent has in every sin­gle way pos­si­ble. Wel­come to our world!

How To Write a Compelling Query Letter

The most impor­tant step in get­ting pub­lished is to push your way past the first gate­keep­ers – the lit­er­ary agents. That’s done with a query let­ter – a let­ter inquir­ing about their level of inter­est in your pro­posed book. Now the bad news: most agents see hun­dreds of queries a week by mail and email! How do you dif­fer­en­ti­ate your­self from this avalanche of queries? This arti­cle shows you how.

A Sampling of Our Sold List

Sell­ing books is fun! Click “full story” below to take a look at a few of the books we’ve sold, includ­ing many best sell­ers and inter­na­tional titles. You’ll get a feel­ing for the kinds of things with which we excel, the types of authors with whom we’ve worked, and the high cal­iber of the pub­lish­ers who buy from us.

Preview Our Contract

Here you can see an exam­ple of our cur­rent agency con­tract. You are wel­come to review it, ask ques­tions about it, wish it was yours, and so on. In fact, the only thing you can­not do is repro­duce it or print it. It’s copy­righted, a word that will mean a lot more to you when your book comes out. Please note the straight­for­ward lan­guage and easy-to-understand terms we use, which are by all accounts quite fair to us and to you, the author. As the author of 31 books under 9 pseu­do­nyms, senior agent Wendy Keller is a vocal advo­cate for author’s rights.

Contract Consulting

We’ve con­sulted on hun­dreds and hun­dreds of pub­lish­ing and speak­ing con­tracts since 1989. While senior agent Wendy Keller is not an attor­ney, she has nego­ti­ated the best terms for many soon-to-be authors and emerg­ing speak­ers and can help you fig­ure out how to get the best terms to ensure your success.

A Message From Our Founder

Here’s a phi­los­o­phy you don’t hear very often in this indus­try: Help peo­ple get their foot in the door. For some rea­son, there’s this idea in pub­lish­ing that any agents who care enough about peo­ple to nur­ture and men­tor them are some­how “unethical.”

That’s just wrong.

It’s wrong because every suc­cess­ful author or speaker got a help­ing hand from a guide, men­tor, book or friend. Every­one was once a begin­ner, whether they were learn­ing to write their ABCs or the lat­est New York Times best seller. This site is about offer­ing that help­ing hand to YOU as an emerg­ing author or speaker. You can’t get any­where in the pub­lish­ing or speak­ing indus­tries with­out a “plat­form” — which is a short­hand way of say­ing, “proof that lots of peo­ple are pay­ing atten­tion to your message.”