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Al B. Harper

Member Since: Mon Jan 04, 2016
Posts: 485
In Reply To
HH

Subj: Yes Hood Yoda
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 at 10:05:06 pm EST (Viewed 423 times)
Reply Subj: Can is not the same as will.
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 at 09:38:43 am EST (Viewed 2 times)



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    I'll bear you in mind as a beta reader when I finally get back to "Premium Delivery to the Centre of the Earth".


Good good.


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    It's a different situation with work-for-hire because there is afer more regulation and usually one isn't allowed to make an changes to the status quo. The same is somewhat true when writing established characters like Sherlock Holmes. It's a different discipline and on the whole one I find a bit more difficult.


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    I suppose whn I'm writing on-spec or when I'm given carte blanche I can play my "natural game", and who doesn't enjoy that?


That seems logical now that I think about it.


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    It was partly enjoyable. Editors that analyse your structural as well as grammatical weakness are discomfiting sometimes.


But is that what makes a better editor?


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        I have had to go to great lengths to get breakdowns of what amounts I'm sent actually represent.

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        I recall you mentioning this previously. It seems so strange to me, but what would I know.


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    I suspect this is what agents are for.


Slimy agents. Only in it for themselves.



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    You're welcome to have a go, of course.


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    This year I mean to take a serious look at marketing at least one work of mine. I'm currently "holding" a Chillwater Press novel called Labours of Hercules (which is what it says, a mythical adventure story) until I have the capacity to give it a proper launch push. Either that or TTC vol 2 if I get it written sometime will be "the one" I go for it with.


I'll keep an eye out for it.


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      One thing I have also seen which has worked is offering a teaser - the first chapter (or book in a series) for free at the Kindle store - or something like that. Get them in. Rope them up.




Yes, it's the promotion of this that helps too, in addition to just having it there.



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    I also ran into the best friend of best-selling SF writer and screenplay author Ian Watson, who was delighted at the possibility of "getting the two Ians together onstage". I am now hiding.


*chuckle* We'll make a celebrity out of you yet!