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“Do I lie to myself to be happy?”
—Christopher Nolan/Lenny Shelby, Memento
“I cannot tell a lie to please you.”
—Émile Zola/Pio Boccanera, Rome
Ampiran was initially a fluid group of fiction readers. The members liked to read and read everything written in their mother tongue until there were none worthwhile to read. But the group was not in itself a group of writers. In such a huge collective craving, it projected itself with not too strong a position as building a decent publishing house, but not too moderate as a can of bookworms. Instead, agency was what it was seeking.
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Hence the agency. Accumulated since its startup, it has represented 9 authors with 4 already hit the market and 2 in pre-publishing. In toto, it intensively serves 3 per month and the intensity seems to increase that it needs to add more people. It has committed that within several months, it will increase its services while lowering commission rate, especially in accordance to one of its mission: paperless literacy.
news
Find a brief updates on current circumstances in Ampiran. You can also check the blog.
- 2008/06/09 Query No More
You might be the best author in town having no difficulty whatsoever to compose a query letter. Question is, why spending your precious time with false pretense trying to entertain us? Doing it with lickety split is all we need. Hence, in the very near future, you will be able to submit your proposals via HTTP with highly structurized headings. No more SASE. Save more trees.
- 2008/06/03 Career Opportunity
We welcome you interested readers to join in our critic circle. If you are not easily bedazzled by any piece of work, able to spot a flaw in a glint and know how to fix it, understand De Interpretatione by heart, then why wait? See the blog for more details.
- 2008/05/09 Save the Trees
Ampiran becomes a participating member of the forum for paperless society.
list
The list of our clients is growing exponentially we are afraid there will be not enough readers for them to begin with.
contact
Agensi Ampiran
Visma Viswanathan L26
Jl Aegea 55 Batu, Indonesia 40943
ph.: +62 22 911 9408, fax.: +62 22 911 9411
email: ampiran at athost dot net
faq
Q: Don't I need an agent?
A: No, you don't. Agents and any other kinds of intermediary only burden the actually transacting parties with unnecessary cost. In case of literary agency, it will rip no less than 15% off of your revenue.
Q: Then why Ampiran in the first place?
A: Simple answer: market is not simple. Not-so-simple answer: you are an author and not anything else, yet you still need other people to read what you wrote. If it is not the case, better stick to your notebook and keep it in your drawer. And now it is the detailed answer which now follows two lines of argument.
- public: You will need to know what attracts people. A good agency provides you trends, guidelines and constructive notes to the internal structure of your work. An excellent agency brings you breakthrough points that not only you will be an author who sells, but also an author who will contribute to accumulation of knowledge in our civilization. An excellent and lucky agency will invite a wandering literary critic to visit your masterpiece, you know the rest of the story.
- publishing: John Guttenberg has brought us ubiquitousness of literacy. Still, Agatha Christie might have sold millions of copies, but she would not know and would not need to know whoever had translated her. The chain is exhaustive and continues to improve its modes and conventions that she is still widely-read today. With an agency acting on your behalf, you will not need to worry about how to negotiate, the payment of your royalty, boring book launch and autograph signing, copyright infringement, even your electric bill and internet connection. To sum it all up, you are a writer and writing is what you excel in.