And the hard stuff, too.

Mar 03, 2011 13:17

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 ( Read more... )

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asakiyume March 3 2011, 16:20:11 UTC
Congratulations; that's wonderful news!

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bondo_ba March 3 2011, 16:58:42 UTC
:-)

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

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kimberlywade March 3 2011, 16:24:39 UTC
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.

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bondo_ba March 3 2011, 17:01:00 UTC
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.

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kimberlywade March 3 2011, 19:07:59 UTC
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.

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mongrelheart March 3 2011, 17:03:13 UTC
Big congrats!!!

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bondo_ba March 3 2011, 19:08:28 UTC
Thank you!

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msstacy13 March 3 2011, 17:57:23 UTC
Hightshoe?
Does she have an associate named Gus Undheit?

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bondo_ba March 3 2011, 19:08:59 UTC
LOL. Probably not, but she now has an author names Gus Bondoni!

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bondo_ba March 3 2011, 19:08:12 UTC
Thank you! And yes, that's the one - so far, they have been an absolute pleasure to work with.

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bogwitch64 March 3 2011, 17:51:17 UTC


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bondo_ba March 3 2011, 19:09:19 UTC
Thank you! And I love the glitter pen sparklies!

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