Are you an aspriing writer trying to break into the publishing world?

Trying to crack the odd language that is publisherspeak?

Don't know an ARC from a Full? Or a Sell-through from an Imprint?

The BookEnds Literary Agency has just posted a very useful dictionary of publishing which should help clear up some of your confusion.

After 10 years in the game, I knew 99% of the terms but the one that I didn't know (and the one that intrigued) me was the term preempt, which I haven't come across before.

It's defined by BookEnds as:

Preempt: When a publisher makes an advance and royalty offer high enough to take the book off the auction table. In other words, a publisher offers enough money that the author and agent agree that they will sell the book without asking for bids from other publishers.

I like this word. I like this idea. I would very much like one of my publishers to preempt my next series with an offer roughly equivalent to the GDP of New Zealand...

*wanders off muttering... how do I get them to do that?...*