Does it hurt an unpublished novels chances of getting published if you submit an excerpt as a short story submission?
First, what buzhidao said.
Second, if you do take a chunk of a story and publish sell elsewhere, then the novel has a chunk that you can't include because it's licensed elsewhere. Characters and world might also get tied up in those licensing retails.
Submitting an excerpt of a novel as a short story doesn't make sense if you are still planning on publishing the long novel. Don't do it.
Actually, there's no reason you can't publish a short story, then the novel that includes that short story as, say, one of its chapters.
First, what buzhidao said.
Second, if you do take a chunk of a story and publish sell elsewhere, then the novel has a chunk that you can't include because it's licensed elsewhere. Characters and world might also get tied up in those licensing retails.
Submitting an excerpt of a novel as a short story doesn't make sense if you are still planning on publishing the long novel. Don't do it.
What are you talking about?
This is entirely, utterly incorrect.
I assumed the OP meant that the excerpt would be published as a short story, and generally that means they only sell the first publication rights.My interpretation of the question was should the OP attempt to sell an excerpt to publisher A and continue to shop the full, which, if publisher A does buy, puts a section under contract.
Should the story sell, the OP wait several years for rights to revert, (assuming they ever do, some publishers don't let go of anything) then shop the whole, then there is no conflict.
Devil in the details.
My interpretation of the question was should the OP attempt to sell an excerpt to publisher A and continue to shop the full, which, if publisher A does buy, puts a section under contract.
Should the story sell, the OP wait several years for rights to revert, (assuming they ever do, some publishers don't let go of anything) then shop the whole, then there is no conflict.
Devil in the details.
Does it hurt an unpublished novels chances of getting published if you submit an excerpt as a short story submission?
The full novel, however, can also be sold immediately. I don't think there's even any restriction on the author waiting until the short story is published (someone more knowledgeable correct me if I'm wrong), because the novel is a work of art distinct from the short story. The author hasn't sold any rights for the full novel.
Can you tell me which chapter that is? Couldn't figure it out.Patrick Rothfuss submitted an excerpt from The Name of the Wind to Writers of the Future, won, and the rest is history.
Just make sure you'll retain the rights to it.
Can you tell me which chapter that is? Couldn't figure it out.