I’ve self-published several books.
Feel free to private message me with any questions.
And congratulations!
Watch the Writer’s Dojo podcasts by Larry Corriea and friends.
QueryTracker puts you in touch with 2000 agents and publishers, categorized by genre. A fee of $25 per year.
nanowrimo.org, they know everything!
Vellum is great if you have a Mac. And enjoy learning curves. SP is definitely the way to go.
Have you had others read it? A good friend is a novel writer—published, movie deals, etc.
The thing she has told me is editing is the hardest part. Baring your work to the world is scary, because they will have something critical to say. And who likes that? Ha ha.
Self publishing is fine. But it will pretty much take most future “big deals” off the table unless you are literally the one in a million writers.
Learn how to officially copyright your work. It is cheap. And it will save you from lawsuits and potential abuse.
So, my suggestion is send it around to a few people. Then edit the crap out of it. Then look for an agent. That’s the most difficult part of the “going commercial” process.
Finally, congratulations. Getting through a book is an accomplishment you should be proud of.
I thought you were going to show us an outline of the story for our remarks or critiques. My error. I hope you get the publishing advice you need. I will say that even though kindle is available and often for free, I still prefer physical books to have and to hold.
I just got done reading “From Here To Eternity” by James Jones. It was a big swallow at 800 pages, but I slowly digested it all. What a great novel that was to read! Usually I would expect to be bored by the story of a soldier. Not this time. Not at all.
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contact Freeper Travis McGee
He is an excellent author and has books published
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Binge watch “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”! It will come to you!
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Mat used to post a chapter or two on FR for various reasons.
His novels are very good.
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Congratulations. That’s an accomplishment.
Congratulations! Find a good agent and go for the best publishing houses. Sci Fi is hot now, people tell me.
Research online how to make the best presentation. Good luck.
It might take awhile, but find a critique group or partner wo can help you polish it before querying agents.
Thanks for all the great comments there is a lot of useful to go through. It felt good even getting through the first draft and I realize I still have A LONG away to go before the story is fully realized. Thanks again FR, folks here always come through.
Try over at the community at https://timelessauthors.com/
New novelists always think their first draft is good to great. Take a breath. Your vision may be a little biased and you may have missed some problematic constructions or scene jumps because you are so close to the story that your brain doesn’t notice them or makes the jump for you.
See if you can find a local group of writers (critique group) who will read your chapters and make recommendations based on their observation in return for a reciprocal read of their stuff. Hopefully, the group will be comprised of writers whose genre interests coincide with yours.
The more difficult and harder the group is in their criticism the better for your end result. If all their discussion is platitudes about how wonderful it is, find another group who will be honest with you.