Rejected
Well, I am, despite a total lack of Tolkeininan influences, a strong religious system, virtually no magic, and characters who glow, apparently too much like other fantasy authors, so I've been rejected.
Punch in the stomach delivered, and that also pretty much was a pretty fucking big drain in my level of hope. If that's what one agent is saying, that's probably what most of them will say. I guess there's nothing for it but to keep trying, but at this point, I have my doubts that publication is in my near, or far, future
So I'm going to abandon this series until someone shows real interest in the first book. I don't see any reason to pour any more energy into something that is never, ever going to see the light of day because 99.9% of fantasy writers suck big fat cock, and editors are too stupid to realize it. I'll work on refining the script for the graphic novel, not that it's ever going to be finished, much less published, and try to map out a mystery novel that's been knocking around in my head so that can get rejected too, in a few years.
The worst part of it is that I know the book is good, and I know the book could break out of the fantasy market because of the political and social themes that it tackles. People who do not read fantasy have read it and are pressuring me to finish the series, so that they know what happens. But if everyone comes to the conclusion that because it's fantasy, it will never sell, nobody will see that.
Please do not suggest self publishing. Self publishing does not work. If publishers won't touch fantasy, bookstores sure as hell won't. So what do you do? Pour an assload of money into publishing, and then pour an assload of money into convention hopping and publicity to try to sell the books, which have to be priced low to do that, and once again, if you can't get anyone to read it, you're screwed. (Oh, and convention hopping? Too expensive to go by plane, which means weeks away from home. Weeks away from home will, and I am not exaggerating here, drive me insane Literally insane.) Do not suggest ebooks either. Unless you, personally, have MADE MONEY -- and I'm not talking a couple bucks -- through self-publishing or ebooks, I don't want to hear it.
I'm a good writer, but I have no desire to chase after the next big thing. So I guess I'm doomed to be an obscure good writer.
Punch in the stomach delivered, and that also pretty much was a pretty fucking big drain in my level of hope. If that's what one agent is saying, that's probably what most of them will say. I guess there's nothing for it but to keep trying, but at this point, I have my doubts that publication is in my near, or far, future
So I'm going to abandon this series until someone shows real interest in the first book. I don't see any reason to pour any more energy into something that is never, ever going to see the light of day because 99.9% of fantasy writers suck big fat cock, and editors are too stupid to realize it. I'll work on refining the script for the graphic novel, not that it's ever going to be finished, much less published, and try to map out a mystery novel that's been knocking around in my head so that can get rejected too, in a few years.
The worst part of it is that I know the book is good, and I know the book could break out of the fantasy market because of the political and social themes that it tackles. People who do not read fantasy have read it and are pressuring me to finish the series, so that they know what happens. But if everyone comes to the conclusion that because it's fantasy, it will never sell, nobody will see that.
Please do not suggest self publishing. Self publishing does not work. If publishers won't touch fantasy, bookstores sure as hell won't. So what do you do? Pour an assload of money into publishing, and then pour an assload of money into convention hopping and publicity to try to sell the books, which have to be priced low to do that, and once again, if you can't get anyone to read it, you're screwed. (Oh, and convention hopping? Too expensive to go by plane, which means weeks away from home. Weeks away from home will, and I am not exaggerating here, drive me insane Literally insane.) Do not suggest ebooks either. Unless you, personally, have MADE MONEY -- and I'm not talking a couple bucks -- through self-publishing or ebooks, I don't want to hear it.
I'm a good writer, but I have no desire to chase after the next big thing. So I guess I'm doomed to be an obscure good writer.