OOC - the World Tree novel
Mar. 26th, 2003 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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. . .
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Date: 2003-03-26 03:51 pm (UTC)I'd have to see the manuscript to give anything like good advice on this question. I would lean towards "Try a big publishing house", though I wouldn't recommend Baen. (I like Baen a lot, actually, but they have one of the longer turnaround times AND they're not really a fantasy-publishing house; I think most of their fantasy catalogue is written by authors whose SF they'd published previously. Their submission guidelines say something to the effect of 'we publish mostly sf and don't really like fantasy', IIRC.)
I guess it depends on how patient you're willing to be, really. For myself, I'd keep trying at big publishing houses for a few years, then go to Padwolf. I probably wouldn't self-publish or web-pub it at all; I'd just keep circulating it among publishing houses until I ran out of ones to try. :)
On speed: Make yourself happy.
On reading and commenting: I have a master's degree in literatrue, and I taught writing 101 courses for a couple of years. So I have more than the usual level of experience with providing feedback on writing. However, I've never read and commented on an entire novel before. I will, however, volunteer to give it a shot. :)