What's a fair price for a 500-page trade paperback?

[rah]

If every author waiting till a book was perfect, no books would ever be released.

[Elok]

Well, I'm not aiming to be like GoT that way, either.

[rah]

Have you tried marketing it as a empowered female novel

[Jon Miller]

My understanding from GoT and other series is that writing yourself out of places and into places is some of the challenge and joy of writing. And it provides something to long stories.

Of course, there are a few authors I read that consider consistency the grave of stories and one author who pointedly never reads her previous novels despite writing a series over 20+ years. I think she has had inconsistencies on the level of Yunise going north/not going north.

Of course, I think Curse of Life is better than ALL of her recent novels, despite being in the Journal/Letter style (which I generally dislike).

JM

[rah]

Yeah, ditch that style. I think that contributed to the issue at the beginning. But you must consider that considering how much i'm not a fan of that style, I still finished the book and thought it was good. So don't talk yourself down. MOVE FORWARD

[Elok]

I'm giving it a shot just to see what comes out. About 1500 words today. We'll see if anything comes of it in the end.

[ricketyclik]

Well, I think this would be doing both. The changes to the plot I'm thinking about making would be pretty drastic; Yunise might never make it to Sau Margen, where the last third of the book takes place, at all. And the whole Northern plot arc, with multiple new characters, is nothing to sneeze at either. We'd see Babasalim and the civil war in the South. Really, what I'm thinking about is something closer in style and structure to Game of Thrones, where the focus shifts to distant parts of the world to show simultaneous events. Just without the nihilism, gratuitous sex, long digressions into coats of arms, and lemon-cakes. So, I guess, not like Game of Thrones at all. But a very different book.

(Thank you, AAHZ)

Well yes, any book can do without nihilism, coats of arms and lemon cakes. But gratuitous sex? I think I might see why your book hasn't caught on.