Oh yeah, [rude word]ing awesome! That's just so cool. When it finally comes out - and I'm sure it will, given the overwhelmingly positive response from agents - I'll be sure to pick up a copy. Hah, I bet a fair number of copies will sell just through YWS, and then through word of mouth.
But given the lengthy publishing process, it'll probably still be a fair number of months before it's released. Still, keep us updated with any further developments.
My mom wants you to go to Writer's Market:
http://writersmarket.com/ And if you havn't already, get a username and password. She says they have excellent tips on getting published.
He doesn't really need that now - his agent will deal with all the stuff: sending off submissions to publishers, recieving responses, engaging in negotiations, making sure he gets the best possible deal, etc.
All the legwork and legal details are carried out by agents, leaving the author time to write and promote their books.
Looks like a nice site though. If they didn't charge, I'd sign up.
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Update: It's been quite a while since I notified everyone of the going-ons with the publishing world. As for now, all three novels in the trilogy -- Chionophobia, Prosthesis, and Melnikov -- are complete. Chionophobia, however, has entered into so-called "development Hell": this is where so many editors begin fighting over a story and charging the publisher editing fees out the wazoo that it becomes fiscally impossible to publish: simply because the projected number of sells is not enough to overcome the fees already charged as well as meet the minimal profit margin demanded by the publisher. It's maddening, but I suppose I've come to accept it, at least.
Towards other goals, I have nothing but bland and boring projects set out. You might not want to glimpse these for too long, as cachexia is eventually fatal to a body. But they are, nonetheless:
Potato in the Orchard: a humorous if perhaps otherwise drab memoir-like tale about a young boy who is incapable of feeling emotion. Raised in a household of bizarre interests, he struggles to "fit in" and understand his past.
(see? didn't I tell you? b.o.r.i.n.g.)
And also:
Bethlehem: an alternative history screenplay that studies the use of magic, spirit and reason in a post-apocalyptic world, circa 1919.
--Bethlehem has been sent to some woman at HBO for rejection.
I read other people's Writer's Corner posts, and I see all this talk of not being able to give up writing because other people are expecting some story.
Where art thou expectant ones? Accountability partners, where do you hide!?
I think Bethlehem would be interesting to read if you ever posted it. Dunno if that makes me expectant of that story or not, but whatever *is dramatic* so don't give up, Incand
Still, keep us updated with any further developments.
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