What do Fiction Editors want?

Subject: Re: What do Fiction Editors want? Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:41 pm

Excellent article, Shelagh. The video link you posted yesterday was also good. I didn't get back to the board to thank you for that. Sometimes life gets busy!
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Subject: Re: What do Fiction Editors want? Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:26 pm

Thanks for the link Shelagh.

Unfortunately, I've read many articles saying the same thing. Nothing is helping me to get the foot in the door.

I have a very original novel, it's just finding an literary agent that shares the same passion for the book as I do.

It's a long, lonley road.

But my motto is... Never give up, never give in.
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Subject: Re: What do Fiction Editors want? Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:33 pm

I think that whether you choose to self publish or someone publishes it for you, no matter what the process is really of heart wrenching. rewarding, but heart wrenching. I wrote a fiction novel according to strict guidelines from a fiction publisher, but they told me it was probably not suited for mainstream fiction (it's a novel about a woman who was in the Canadian military and then follows her life after she gets out). They thought the military theme was not that appealing...which I found weird since we are so much more involved in the military now than prior to 9/11. My grandmother kept asking me when it was going to be published, and so I published it myself. Razz

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Subject: Re: What do Fiction Editors want? Sun May 04, 2008 2:39 pm

Pam,

Did you choose to self-publish early in the find-a-publisher game after your intended publisher didn't work out or did you try dozens of other publishers in Canada and the States first?

Malcolm
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Subject: Re: What do Fiction Editors want? Sun May 04, 2008 11:50 pm

Malcolm I submitted it to two publishers here in Canada, but they did not like it. That process alone took about 8 months, so I decided to bite the bullet and publish it. There are very few publishers here that will take unagented manuscripts, just as in the States, but now I am better connected in the writing community I have a feeling that subsequent efforts will do much better. Time will tell!
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