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- September 20th, 2010, 6:59 am
- Forum: Ask Nathan
- Topic: Old Ask Nathan Thread
- Replies: 793
- Views: 407114
Nathan, can I ask a request...?
I didn't want to email you this because you no doubt get several hundred emails a day. However, I would rather not have asked you this publicly as I fully expect a negative response. So from the very beginning let me say that if you wish to give me a negative response, that's totally cool. I mean, w...
- December 17th, 2009, 11:13 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query Help
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8498
Re: Query Help
Wow, that actually worked! Okay Version 4, 5 or 6 (I'm a little lost) Dear Nathan, I'm a regular on your blog, and in your forums (I post as ChrisisAlwaysRight). I can tell from your posts that you bring passion to your work, and you love a great story, as I do. I hope you find something to love in ...
- December 17th, 2009, 3:24 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query Help
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8498
Re: Query Help
See, I have a problem in writing this query. I have 30k words dedicated to 16 year old Matilda's first encounter with the Incan blood magic. I have 40k words relating to 72 year old Matilda's last encounter with the Incan blood magic - unfinished business she must sort before she dies. I have 10k wo...
- December 17th, 2009, 1:39 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query Help
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8498
Re: Query Help
Dear Nathan, I'm a regular on your blog, and in your forums (I post as ChrisisAlwaysRight). I can tell from your posts that you bring passion to your work, and you love a great story, as I do. I hope you find something to love in The Guns of Pleasure and Death, my 100,000 word steampunk fantasy. At ...
- December 17th, 2009, 1:35 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query Help
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8498
Re: Query Help
Ah, I missed the first paragraph (genre, steampunk, title, wordcount, why I'm submitting to Nathan) and last (writing credits) as they are (general consensus) okay. I can understand how just the bit in the middle would throw you, though. Sorry for that.
- December 16th, 2009, 4:43 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query Help
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8498
Re: Query Help
And now for something completely different. I have no idea if this works or not. PS I thought plot went in synopsis, not query? At the age of 16, deep in the Amazon rainforest, Matilda Raleigh learned that the world is a harsh place. Searching for El Dorado with her father, she found the lost remnan...
- December 15th, 2009, 6:21 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query Help
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8498
Re: Query Help
Those damn rhetorical questions are good at sneaking in, aren't they?but surely saving the entire world is worth such a price?
- December 15th, 2009, 6:18 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query Help
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8498
Re: Query Help
Thanks guys - you helped make Version 2.0 Let's hope this is better. More focused on plot, I believe. Dear Nathan, I'm a regular on your blog, and in your forums (I post as ChrisisAlwaysRight). I can tell from your posts that you bring passion to your work, and you love a great story, as I do. I hop...
- December 15th, 2009, 5:33 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query Help
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8498
Re: Query Help
Querying about March, hopefully. It's out on beta right now, so a last edit when it comes back in.
Thank you both.
Thank you both.
- December 15th, 2009, 4:32 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query Help
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8498
Query Help
For version 3, go to page 2.
- December 13th, 2009, 5:38 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: What We’re Going to Have to Give Up and Get Used To
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6399
Re: What We’re Going to Have to Give Up and Get Used To
1) That's always happened. 2) I seriously disagree. Maybe if you don't get published for 20 years or so, but ebooks aren't completely here yet. But the good news... I'm sorry, but that's a crock. They said the same about records, then invented tapes. Said the same about tapes, then invented CDs. (An...
- December 11th, 2009, 3:45 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: How many projects do you work on at once?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 21357
Re: How many projects do you work on at once?
My novel is with the beta readers. I hope to have it back and edited by March. I'm currently editing a YA fantasy (rewriting half of it) which will hopefully be going to the betas when this comes back. I have just outlined a fantasy comedy which I will be writing at some point and just started a sci...
- December 10th, 2009, 5:29 pm
- Forum: Ask Nathan
- Topic: Old Ask Nathan Thread
- Replies: 793
- Views: 407114
Re: Ask Nathan
I'm wondering if authors get to keep merchandising rights. For instance, when I finally have a pubbed novel, and I want to sell t-shirts with my title or something on it, do I need to go through the publisher? Also, the imaging rights for the characters (what they look like). Surely publishers will ...
- December 10th, 2009, 5:20 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Hachette and S&S to Delay Release of E-books
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9165
Re: Hachette and S&S to Delay Release of E-books
I put this on the blog, then figured it would be better in here. Love the new look by the way. Nathan, I realise we can't just change the entire publishing industry ourselves, but I do see another option that no one here (or anywhere) seems to have considered. Release the e-book and the paperback at...