in a letter from Audrey
Oct. 13th, 2007 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ljgeoffI just got a letter from my friend Audrey. She's in England, getting her MFA.
Most of the letter has to do with Lewis Door. I haven't done anything with it. I've started a bit on a next book, but school has derailed that a bit.
Audrey's right. I just have a hard time believing that any editor will think it's any good. It's not that I'm afraid of rejection, it's that I don't see the point in sending it out. It's not like I'm getting raves from my readers -- I think about 1/4 of the people who've started reading it have finished it. And Len, Ruby and Lucas, who read voraciously and who love me, are in the group who couldn't get through it.
It's that old story -- that it's easier not to try something than to put my heart into it and then be stomped on. I know that is very cowardly. Self-publishing is just so much easier -- fork up a bit of cash for the PDF file, send it off to BookSurge, let Amazon distribute it -- I dunno, it still sounds a heck of a lot easier.
So, what this post is all about is me trying to talk myself into sending queries out to editors. I've got the querry letter written, and I've got a file with the names of the editors. I think I'll buy some of those aurora borialis stamps. I said that I'd try the regular publishing route, at least.
I'm still see-sawing. Why put so much energy into something that might net me a $500-$1000 and chew up my time and my heart? I dunno.
Audrey wrote:
...I'm telling you this stuff because I'm worried about _Door_ getting chucked, and you never writing again.
I'm addicted to your writing, woman!
Huh. That's pretty cool. And enough to get me moving, I guess.
Most of the letter has to do with Lewis Door. I haven't done anything with it. I've started a bit on a next book, but school has derailed that a bit.
Audrey's right. I just have a hard time believing that any editor will think it's any good. It's not that I'm afraid of rejection, it's that I don't see the point in sending it out. It's not like I'm getting raves from my readers -- I think about 1/4 of the people who've started reading it have finished it. And Len, Ruby and Lucas, who read voraciously and who love me, are in the group who couldn't get through it.
It's that old story -- that it's easier not to try something than to put my heart into it and then be stomped on. I know that is very cowardly. Self-publishing is just so much easier -- fork up a bit of cash for the PDF file, send it off to BookSurge, let Amazon distribute it -- I dunno, it still sounds a heck of a lot easier.
So, what this post is all about is me trying to talk myself into sending queries out to editors. I've got the querry letter written, and I've got a file with the names of the editors. I think I'll buy some of those aurora borialis stamps. I said that I'd try the regular publishing route, at least.
I'm still see-sawing. Why put so much energy into something that might net me a $500-$1000 and chew up my time and my heart? I dunno.
Audrey wrote:
...I'm telling you this stuff because I'm worried about _Door_ getting chucked, and you never writing again.
I'm addicted to your writing, woman!
Huh. That's pretty cool. And enough to get me moving, I guess.
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