About that collection...
1. What organization would you like in a collection that has both fiction and poetry? Separated into Parts I and II? Intermingled artistically?
2. So, I have this novel which I stalled out on due to the fact that without prodding from a collaborator, I find novels incredibly difficult to complete, due to their sheer length. But I could probably complete it as a novella (and, theoretically at least, expand it to a full novel later.)
Factors to consider: It's almost certainly unsalable to anything but a very small and quirky LGBTQ press. Realistically, I am way more motivated to finish it as anything if I knew it would definitely get some sort of release. It would be by far the longest story in the collection, and is tonally completely different from anything else in it. (My short stories tend more toward bittersweetness than wacky hijinks.)
It's a comic Gothic in which all the main characters are lesbians, all the people in the world are some sort of supernatural being, and the heroine is a werewolf who gets hired as a private chef by one of those sexy, bad-news noir dames, who in this case is an angel. (Not the divine kind; a person with wings.) There's a lot of food porn, a sinister housekeeper, dark secrets in the attic, flying paparazzi, and angels with watermelon tourmaline-colored eyes. You can see why I don't think this would be an easy sale.
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2. So, I have this novel which I stalled out on due to the fact that without prodding from a collaborator, I find novels incredibly difficult to complete, due to their sheer length. But I could probably complete it as a novella (and, theoretically at least, expand it to a full novel later.)
Factors to consider: It's almost certainly unsalable to anything but a very small and quirky LGBTQ press. Realistically, I am way more motivated to finish it as anything if I knew it would definitely get some sort of release. It would be by far the longest story in the collection, and is tonally completely different from anything else in it. (My short stories tend more toward bittersweetness than wacky hijinks.)
It's a comic Gothic in which all the main characters are lesbians, all the people in the world are some sort of supernatural being, and the heroine is a werewolf who gets hired as a private chef by one of those sexy, bad-news noir dames, who in this case is an angel. (Not the divine kind; a person with wings.) There's a lot of food porn, a sinister housekeeper, dark secrets in the attic, flying paparazzi, and angels with watermelon tourmaline-colored eyes. You can see why I don't think this would be an easy sale.
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