The Traditional Publishing route to market is certainly the best if you can find a good agent and a good publisher who value your work. At Floreat Books we recommend all writers certainly try this route to market first - especially if you are writing fiction - as your book will invariably be all the better for expert editors who take a commercial and creative interest in the exploitation of your work. Traditional Publishers should also have well developed distribution networks and a sales team who has a direct relationship with each genre buyer at the leading bookstores. Furthermore, you don't need to pay anything and are a "published" author in the true sense of the word.

However, getting a Literary Agent and Traditional Publisher is not always easy. You must ensure your book is of a commercial publication standard (a good idea regardless of your route to market!) and also that you have the time to see the process out as getting a book to market by Traditional Publishing can take many months, even years. Luckily there are many great websites offering writers advice on securing a Traditional Publishing deal. We can also help you with this process by helping you submit your manuscript to Literary Agents (see our Book Development and Literary Agents Pack services) or improving the quality of your manuscript (see our Manuscript Editing and Manuscript Proof Reading services). Floreat Books also works with authors who have been traditionally published but would like to improve their own publicity as they are fairly down the list of priority on a Traditional Publisher's marketing budget (see our Marketing services).