What do you do when 97 percent of your submissions are electronic and the internet goes out?
Try ipconfig like twelve times. Give up. Make a cup of green-almond tea. And forward submissions to the Kindle email via smartphone.
Only one got through. And it's awesome.
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Question: They say don't write to market. They say write what you want to write. I believe them. I do.
BUT. . .if you're waiting for someone else to enjoy that book of your heart as much as you do, and you want to, just for fun, mind you, and perhaps as an experiment, write something paranormal romancy urbanesque fantastical that might just rock several agents' cashmere socks at once.
Something that might induce bidding wars from publishers, an advance that would pay down the credit cards that buy your ramen noodle soup by the case every month. . .
would it be
A) vampires (or is the market too saturated?)
B) werewolves (or have they gone to the dogs?)
C) fairies (too Disney?)
D) angels (or are they just a pass-over fad?)
E) Ghosts (too transparent?)
F) Other
Also - are female leads definitely the way to go in this genre or can male leads work, too?
Curiouser and curiouser,
:)
Glad that it's the awesome that went through.
I'm dying laughing over here, :) .
These are, I'm ashamed to admit, some of the same questions I've asked myself in very low moments. I love all things paranormal and vampires are my absolute favorite - with ghosts following a close second. And this was before Twilight and Paranormal State. (A friend recently asked *me why I love vamps so much, and I honestly could only respond with, "they're just so...cool...and stuff...." An idiotic answer, no doubt.)
But back to those low moments: I let myself grieve over the fact that what I wanted to write was (probably) not the subject driving the market - but only for a short while. Then I went back to my ghosts.
I'm dying laughing because the post, first, is funny. But it also holds an indescrible amount of truth for me, as a fellow writer. In my case it's, "experiment. Oh, sure. Uh-huh...." No desperation here. Nope. Not a bit.
:)
*a devout southern Catholic, Conservative Republican, traditional June Cleaver mom and wife.
How did one sneak past where others couldn't?
Here's hoping it maintained its awesomeness all the way through.
Ally,
Thanks for that. . .I must admit, a part of me just wants to write three chapters and query certain agents (not you, GK, I'd never do that to you) just for the ironic satisfaction of proving I can give 'em something to drool over.
"See what you've missed out on by rejecting my last query before you finished reading it?! See what you're depriving the WORLD of? :)" (Not you, GK :)
The worm can: Are we dealing in art or manufacturing commodities?
(Well, the blog is called "Getting Past the Gatekeeper" :)
:)
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