OOC - the World Tree novel

[sythyry]

(Sythyry will be back in a couple days.) If all goes well, I’ll have finished a fair draft of a World Tree novel soon. (Predictably, for a gaming novel, it’s a love story, concerning three Herethroy who were married as children and have to figure out what to do about it as adults. Some other things happen too.) The setting and the style are a lot like Sythyry’s story, except that there is an actual plot and all like that. It’s a fairly low-key story: the world isn’t saved ‘cause it’s not in danger, the villain is performing her villainies for an excellent reason, and the characters sometimes go for weeks and weeks without risking any injury more serious than a scolding. It also needs a title, but that’s another matter. Anyways, now I want to know what you recommend that I do with the thing. Honest opinions this time, if you please. I’ll go back to begging for flattery later. . . [Poll #117006]

Comments

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Big-name publishers and the one you have an existing relationship with. Why limit yourself?

You could even do something like put out an illustrated edition with the smaller house, then later when a larger publisher is interested, do a non-illustrated one, so the illustrated one can be a collector's item that demands larger prices when you pull out the second half of the print run.

[cowboy-r.livejournal.com]

Most publishing houses frown on simultaneous submissions.

[read-alicia.livejournal.com]

Well, if more of them would start accepting email submissions to respond faster, us poor writers wouldn't have to resort to SS. However, in the case of novels, we have query letters which do cut down on response time.