I wrote a 29 chapter book and started writing a second book. Any publishing companies i could send it into to possibly get it published? Also it would be nice if u put the price because some people said u have to pay to get it published thanks

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Whatever you do, stay away from a vanity press like publish america. If you're serious about publishing then you have to do your own research. The people on Y!A are bound to give you incorrect or bad info; I know, because I've seen people recommend vanity presses like PA, or recommend a company that I know for a fact is a scam and being investigated by government for fraud against writers. your best bet is to get this info on your own from reliable sources (published writers or writers who are serious about being published). It took me months to thoroughly research publishing, and if you can't get by without sufficient research, or you can't blame anyone but yourself if you fall victim to a scam. That's all I say. Research is your best friend. Stay away from search engines because the frauds, scams, and vanity presses are at the top of the list. Find writers communities, because that's where the accurate info will likely come from. Also, seek out literary agent and publisher blogs because they offer a wealth of info. ADDED: Who you send your book to will depend on what they publish. Some small publishers specialize in one or a few genres. It also depends on what kind of publisher you want. Are you looking for a vanity press or a trade/commercial publisher? Are you looking for an ebook publisher? All this you'll find out through your research. I suggest you look up WriterBeware and start there for info about the publishing industry.

Hopefully, by "I wrote a 29 chapter book," you mean "I wrote a book and then edited it to within an inch of its life after running it by people who are more interested in helping me improve my writing than stroking my ego and telling me how special I am, and now I think it's ready for publication." Just because you've stuck an END on the last page doesn't mean you're done with the work. You should not pay to get published. Money flows to the writer. If you're convinced that your book is worthy of publishing, then you should try to get an agent. To do that, you need to write a query letter outlining Who your character is, what Choices they have to make, and the Consequences of those choices. You will probably revise the query more than you revised the novel. The Query Shark has excellent examples of how your query should look. Once you're happy with the query, you can start sending it to agents. You can to go agentquery.com to find agents who work in your genre and are accepting new clients. You should go to Preditors and Editors to make sure they're reputable. Once you land an agent, they will do all the hard work of finding a publisher for you and help you negotiate your contracts--which is why they earn every penny of that 15% they will charge you AFTER they land you that contract. Be prepared for a lot of rejection. You need the skin of a rhino and the persistence of an ant with a rubber tree to make it in this business. Good luck. :)

Okay, first, you don't send your work off to a publishing company. I'll go ahead and explain how you get published. First, of course, you write your book. Once your finished and you have it all edited, then you go on google or whatever you choose and look up, "Literary Agents (your book's genre)". Like, say I just finished a fantasy. I would put in, "Literary Agent Fantasy". You'll find a bunch of websites. Click on a few and get a feel of the different companies and agents. Many of them want you to send in a main idea of the story. Some will want everything to be laid out in a certain way. Once you've sent that in, they could reject you. Some, however, will send word back, and may ask for, say, the first ten pages. They'll probably also ask if there's illustrations or if anyone has edited it. Basically you send emails back and forth. Many will reject you. But it only takes one interested literary agent to get published. After you have one that likes your story, they'll advertise it to publishing companies. Once they get a company that's interested, and you accept to get published by that company, they send you money and the agent gets a percentage of that. After you have another book done, you sell it to the same company with the same agent. the agent will probably be able to cpmprimise with the company to get more money. So, it goes on and one and on. The more renown you are, the more money you get. If you send a copy of your book to a company they'll just throw it away. They only look at books that are actually being advertised by an agent. The agent also takes a ton of complications out of your way. Getting published can be a distressing experience. No matter how good you are, I can guarrantee you will be rejected at least a few times. You can get in contact with multiple agents at once. I actually suggest this. This way, instead of sending word to one agent, getting rejected, and doing that six times, you can send it to six agents at once and be rejected by five. If two are interested, you choose which agent you want to go with. Anyway, that's basically how it works. For some the process is slightly different, but this is basically how it works. Good luck getting published!