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Do you have any track record, Elok?
Been published elsewhere, have a portfolio, anything?Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
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You're the one selling that trash on the street corner!Originally posted by Wiglaf View PostSTREET SENSE
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Talk it over with your sis-in-law's sister. You can always ignore her advice and she would probably be willing to tell you the pluses and minuses from her perspective.
Congrats on finishing your first novel!
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Yes, of course, rather callous of me: congrats and cheers, Elok!
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund FreudComment
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SPARE SOME CHANGEOriginally posted by DanS View PostYou're the one selling that trash on the street corner!
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I will also volunteer to read it if you don't publish it (and yeah, congrats!).
BTW, I do know of one person (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watts) who didn't do so well with the standard publishing house but then has had good success with publishing on the internet (Creative Commons license). He was nominated for a Hugo in 2007. Probably he would suggest doing that over doing a very small time publishing (http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=213).
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GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.Comment
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This novel probably blowsComment
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You're just hoping, Wiggy. Anything for a cheap thrill, huh?Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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No, the idea is that if the first part doesn't payoff, you can always fall back on the sure publisher.Originally posted by Elok View PostComment
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Sadly, no. I don't do short stories. I'm too long-winded.Originally posted by -Jrabbit View Post
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I would greatly recommend that you find a good agent and submit to the big publishers before going the self-publishing route. Remember, if an agent offers any other service than being a face to the publishers, they're a bad agent.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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I wish I had the attention span to finish writing a novel. I can finish reading them, just writing them is tough. Geesh, I can hardly finish writing this po...Comment
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Paying to be published is pathetic, period. It is a joke that anyone with a brain cell would tell you to do that for any reason. This reminds me of those honor societies that would ask for an "application," then "accept" you and then ask for "money" as a membership fee. The only reason I'd pay to get something "published" is if it was pictures of my opponents in flagrante delincto. Get published for real or keep flipping pizzas, douchebag.
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