OOC -- help?

[sythyry]

Various people have been after me to publish various bits of fiction. I'm thinking about it, without making any decisions yet, and I've got a couple questions.

Please answer these if you read Sythyry, even if the answers are negative. [Poll #349513]

Also, do you have any other advice?

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

What papersky said. Italicized, in bold, in 72-point font. :)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Well, pretty much.

I don't plan to do novelize Sythyry (unless, at some point, a novel-sized story should appear somehow). Sythyry's Journal is a work in a rather small subsubsubgenre -- if there's a third successful example of it, I don't know it. It's not structured as a novel. The closest things I know to it, structurally, are web comics. A Sythyry collection would be pretty much like a Sluggy Freelance collection: mainly directed at people who read it live the first time. So I'd do that via Padwolf or Sofawolf or Cafe Press or something else designed for small runs and limited distribution.

The actual novels are much more like novels, and I am trying to figure out how to do ordinary novel-publishing things with them.

[rowyn]

if there's a third successful example of it, I don't know it.

Y'know, this may not be the weakness we're all assuming it is. Sythyry is something different. Maybe that's a good thing; maybe there's a way to make that unusual angle work for you, and not against you. ;)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I am! Sythyry advances my goals very well! These goals are: keeping me writing small stuff even when I don't have a big monolithic project to work on, or much energy due to a cute baby psychic vampire kaiju; to promote awareness of World Tree; to amuse myself and my friends. And, I suppose, to impress authors and editors with my leet lit skillz.