The career novelist
The bottom line: storytelling able and absorbing. Who wants to go somewhere flat? Now, do not get me wrong: there is no reason t ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST For instance, in a well-built alien civilization there is not only reli- gion, but warring sects; not only r ...
The bottom line-, storytelling passed the death penalty? Are you in the middle of a fantasy quest? What if magic spells suddenly ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST the novel opens, gravity experiments are being carried out on Charon, a moon of Pluto. Mere hours before the ...
The bottom line-, storytelling up and down society and/or carry us across great spans of distance and time. Can you extend the s ...
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14 CHAPTER Collaborations THE POWER OF TWO I BEGAN MY CAREER AS AN AGENT AT A LARGE, WELL-KNOWN firm. Its list was hundreds of c ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST she agreed to write a proposal. After struggling with the difficulties of novel construction, this author de ...
Collaborations the unequal contribution that each makes. (And believe me, it is not always the experienced one who works the har ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST them up now. Many collaborations have been wrecked by procedur- al snags that could have been settled at the ...
Collaborations drops out. You continue the series, write nine more, and then an option deal for movie rights to one of them appe ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST Finally, when the book is done who will do the final pass to establish consistency of tone? In a well-writte ...
Collaborations If your agent's reasons do not make sense, though, you have a problem. It may be that your agent places her contr ...
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15 CHAPTER Packagers and Work~for~Hire GIFT WRAPPING? FROM MY AGENCY PHOTO ALBUM, HERE ARE SNAPSHOTS OF three career novelists: ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST (depending on the deal) rewrite the manuscript, edit it, and supply everything from illustrations to cover a ...
Packagers and work-for-hire to publish. Preedited manuscripts! Cover art in place! Of course, the reality is that packaged books ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST If a licensor is involved, they too get a big slice of the cake, per- haps 25 percent. So what is left for t ...
Packagers and work-for-hire Most writers-for-hire move on to their own fiction only to find them- selves left high and dry. Gene ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST Recognize, too, that producing packaged novels all day will sat- isfy your craving to write. When the day is ...
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