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To: bolobaby

LOL, Algore!

If you really want your novel printed, you should stick it in a desk drawer for a while, and start writing short stories for a Fantasy magazine.

I’m not into fantasy, but I do subscribe to Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and I’ve seen many new authors write short stories for that magazine that really read like a chapter of a longer novel. They even often write ‘sequels’ that continue the story, and eventually a novel of the same story or something very much like it appears on the shelves.

It is much easier to get a short story accepted by a magazine without an agent, and much easier to get an agent once you’ve been published by a magazine.

Good luck!


5 posted on 05/18/2007 12:12:02 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: Yo-Yo

Good advice. My wife has been pushing me to write some short stories, but I have all blasted novels in me!

After I finish this next book I’m working on, I’ll probably consider some short stories. Good exposure.


7 posted on 05/18/2007 12:18:54 PM PDT by bolobaby
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