And the hard stuff, too.

[bondo_ba]

It used to be a truism that the science fiction genre was very well suited to the novella form.  The arguments for this were pretty sound and logical: before the author could really let his or her plot unfold, thay needed to ground the reader in a world that was likely extremely different from the reader's own.  This could take a bit of time, and

Comments

[asakiyume]

Congratulations; that's wonderful news!

[bondo_ba]

:-)

Thank you! I'm very happy to have found a good home for this one. I like it a lot!

[kimberlywade]

Hey, congrats!

I think i've written 11 novellas. I've sold one, and it was also a stand-alone. I love to write this length. It's a drag that they're nearly impossible to sell.

[bondo_ba]

I hear you. I've actually had decent success with them, but that may be that I only write one if I'm absolutely sure I'll be able to sell it because of it's theme or subject. Normally I'm very wary of anything between 10 and 50 K, and avoid the range altogether.

[kimberlywade]

I'm not able to plan out my word counts that carefully. I know if something's going to be under 10k, but when i venture over, i usually don't know how far it will go.

[mongrelheart]

Big congrats!!!

[bondo_ba]

Thank you!

[msstacy13]

Hightshoe?
Does she have an associate named Gus Undheit?

[bondo_ba]

LOL. Probably not, but she now has an author names Gus Bondoni!

[bondo_ba]

Thank you! And yes, that's the one - so far, they have been an absolute pleasure to work with.

[bogwitch64]

[bondo_ba]

Thank you! And I love the glitter pen sparklies!