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The Whole Novelization Process...

My have stoopid! Help!

So I went and wrote this novel...

What little I know from the manuscript to the 'in the bookstore' phase could fill a paragraph. Sure, it needs editing. Yes, a literary agent would be nice. A publishing house not hell-bent on raping me would be swell, too.

While I'm at it, give pigs wings and drop a cool million in cash on my front door step...

I'd like to send off my work, yet what little i've read and gleened states I'm pretty much screwed. I'm in the middle of a deployment, it's all in digits without a actual 'hard copy'. It's rough as hell and three chapters need serious re-working. The average chapter is 6-7 pages long (sigh, i might as well written a kids book). But I still want to get it done.

How do I (or somebody else) edit the damn thing?

Who or where do i send the manuscript, and how much? Does it matter if it's fantasy who i send it to?

I can't get it printed, or sent, by hard copy. how will that affect things?

 

I think i'm banging a hopeless cause...

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Leanne Hansonfrom Just west of the lounge room
Associate, 3708 posts

on Dec. 3 2007


Some publishers will accept electronic manuscripts these days -- most of them, really.  Don't worry too much about editing the whole thing, as 2 or 3 chapters (or 4 or 5 if they're really short) with a synopsis is all they're going to want.  Then, if they're interested, they'll get back to you.  DO NOT go with a publisher who expects you to pay them.  Unless they promote themselves as self-publishing or co-publishing houses, these are scammers. 

So, work on a really shit hot synopsis and a couple of good chapters.   

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Leanne Hansonfrom Just west of the lounge room
Associate, 3708 posts

on Dec. 3 2007


SF and fantasy publishers can be found here: http://www.sfsite.com/depts/press01.htm
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