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The whole e-publishing thing
Mar. 3rd, 2011 07:55 amBasically, there's conditions to doing it.
I only want to do it with the Books of Boggs. I still want to send Heroine Addiction to publishers -- the second I get good enough feedback on the current draft, I'm sending it off; I'm practically ITCHING to send it to publishers -- and as soon as I get the rewrite done on The Grand Prize Winner, that's going into the mailbox, too. Same with Cigarettes And Shambles, same with A Binding Kiss, etc., etc.
Here's the thing with the Books of Boggs -- we've sent it to publishers. We've sent it to LOTS of publishers. It didn't get rejected because it was badly written. It got rejected because:
1. Sean wasn't a girl.
2. Sean wasn't a teenage girl.
3. Sean didn't fall in love with a vampire.
4. Sean didn't NOT fall in love with a vampire.
5. It's too funny.
6. It's got too much action.
7. Sean has sex, ewwww.
In other words ... it's a shame I didn't rewrite Twilight.
I haven't let a lot of people read the first book, but the ones who have have given me big thumbs-up. The agent-shaped person and I pounded the draft we've got into submission and it's polished as hell.
And that's not even bringing into consideration that I have the second book halfway done and the third book a quarter of the way done. It wouldn't take much for me to have three books e-published by the end of the year.
Don't get me wrong -- I love the books. I love them so damn much I want other people to read them. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. If it does ... well, it may even be something to point at if actual publishers DO bite on other manuscripts. "Look, you guys! A ready-made fanbase!"
But ... yeah. Therein lies my reasoning.
(I know all the downsides. I do, I really, really do. And yet.)
I only want to do it with the Books of Boggs. I still want to send Heroine Addiction to publishers -- the second I get good enough feedback on the current draft, I'm sending it off; I'm practically ITCHING to send it to publishers -- and as soon as I get the rewrite done on The Grand Prize Winner, that's going into the mailbox, too. Same with Cigarettes And Shambles, same with A Binding Kiss, etc., etc.
Here's the thing with the Books of Boggs -- we've sent it to publishers. We've sent it to LOTS of publishers. It didn't get rejected because it was badly written. It got rejected because:
1. Sean wasn't a girl.
2. Sean wasn't a teenage girl.
3. Sean didn't fall in love with a vampire.
4. Sean didn't NOT fall in love with a vampire.
5. It's too funny.
6. It's got too much action.
7. Sean has sex, ewwww.
In other words ... it's a shame I didn't rewrite Twilight.
I haven't let a lot of people read the first book, but the ones who have have given me big thumbs-up. The agent-shaped person and I pounded the draft we've got into submission and it's polished as hell.
And that's not even bringing into consideration that I have the second book halfway done and the third book a quarter of the way done. It wouldn't take much for me to have three books e-published by the end of the year.
Don't get me wrong -- I love the books. I love them so damn much I want other people to read them. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. If it does ... well, it may even be something to point at if actual publishers DO bite on other manuscripts. "Look, you guys! A ready-made fanbase!"
But ... yeah. Therein lies my reasoning.
(I know all the downsides. I do, I really, really do. And yet.)
