My First Novel
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Topic: My First Novel
Posted By: thellama73
Subject: My First Novel
Date Posted: July 20 2010 at 14:12
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Hey All, My novel entitled Pandemonium, that I wrote as part of National Novel writing month, is now available on Amazon.com. It's a science fiction retelling of Paradise Lost, by John Milton, so that seems prog enough for me to post here.  Please http://www.amazon.com/Pandemonium-Logan-Albright/dp/1452897727/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1279652399&sr=1-2 - buy it and make me some money. ------------- 
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: July 20 2010 at 14:18
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Is that your real name or a pseudonym?
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: July 20 2010 at 14:22
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That's my real name. Stalking me is discouraged.
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: July 20 2010 at 15:22
| Let's "Three Wolf Moon" it. |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 20:24
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Want to support my literary ambitions but a bit strapped for cash? Worry no more! http://www.amazon.com/Pandemonium-ebook/dp/B003XYFPL4/ref=cm_cmu_up_thanks_hdr - My novel is now available as a Kindle E-book for the low, low price of $2.99!
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 21:27
But then I'd have to get a Kindle... ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
thellama73 wrote:Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 21:29
Well, there is that, yes  -------------
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 21:31
Too late. |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: August 03 2010 at 00:23
| Congrats! Did you do this through that publication thing that you get free for completing NaNo? I thought about doing that but was not satisfied with my final novel ... might do so this year if it's offered again, I'm already practising. I may purchase it for my Kindle app for my iPhone, at a later date, but I'm way behind on reading as it is. XD |
Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: August 03 2010 at 03:43
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 03 2010 at 07:52
Yes, they give you a free proof copy with Createspace when you finish, so I did that. It was pretty easy to do, although they gobble up almost all the royalties. I make five times as much money on a $2.99 kindle book than on a $9.99 paperback.  I can't wait for November, I've got another book in the works that I plan to churn out. -------------
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: August 03 2010 at 08:15
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Hats off to you, sir. I've written radio shows, short prose by the bucketful, reams of poems, and a fair few plays but I've never ever ever managed to nail any of my ideas for novels. The longest sustained prose work I've ever managed was about 10,000 words. All my ideas just seem to fizzle out when I try to work them into anything grander than a novella. |
Posted By: toroddfuglesteg
Date Posted: August 04 2010 at 07:34
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Getting a book deal now is close to impossible. The publishers gets about 100 manuscripts a month and only release 4-8 debut novels a year. If you get your debut novel published, you are staring at an income of tops £ 5000/$ 8000 for the months/years of hard work. That even after undertaking some substantial promo work. The difference is if you happens to hit the jackpot and the publishers engage in a bidding war for you. Then we are talking hundreds of thousand quid. But that is not likely to happen to me. Myself and others have given up so we are going down the digital books route. I mostly write as an alternative to going down the genocide or suicide route. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: August 04 2010 at 08:36
One avenue around this though, is to get short stories published in literary magazines first, or better yet, win one of their contests. I have put off entering one short story contest for new writers for almost three years now. I think it's time I polished off a few of my short stories and submitted them. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 04 2010 at 08:46
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I am just going to keep churning out novels and self publishing. Maybe one day one of them will catch on.
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Posted By: toroddfuglesteg
Date Posted: August 04 2010 at 10:01
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I mostly never write for anyone else than myself. If you start to write novels and stuff for other, the quality will drop to the floor and you will fail miserably. It is like trying to make babies. If you go to bed with your beloved only to make babies, you will not conceive. If you go to bed for the lust of it, you will conceive. The same rule applies to writing. I also use pseudos when I write. |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: August 04 2010 at 10:02
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: September 22 2010 at 14:14
Sorry  |