That is great to hear! And I'm with you, self promotion isn't any fun, but I'm afraid it's a necessity. Is you book available in any other print form other than LULU?
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That is great to hear! And I'm with you, self promotion isn't any fun, but I'm afraid it's a necessity. Is you book available in any other print form other than LULU?
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it's a novella, so it's not available in print form at all. for melange, a book has to be over 40,000 to be ran in paperback. mine is like 21,000.
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well, my personal problems with editors in the past has been one of them hacking my work to hell. one particular publisher, one far more well known than melange in the horror industry, hacked my work so bad i refused the contract. melange basically went through and removed or altered most of the technical problems my work had, but left my flowery style and particular "voice" the hell alone. which is probably because they are primarily a romance publisher. so they were surely more used to my flowery style moreso than a straight horror publisher would be.
My agent had to work the contract, and she did with good results. It's a B-tier publisher, but that was my decision to go with them. I'm signing my second book with them. I have an erotic romance coming out in a month or two. Nancy has been a pleasure to exchange with, my editor really conformed to my wishes and style, and the first cover was fairly decent. No real complaints here.
Sold the third book to them. One more to go to complete the YA trilogy. So, I'll be Red Satin and Fire and Ice. Not problems whatsoever. We just couldn't squeeze an advance out of them. But every other clause was redefined, rewrote, improved or struck. I've dealt with nearly the entire staff, and will say that they are insufferably polite and easy on your nerves.
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Checking in. I had noticed Fire & Ice YA soliciting 50k+ upper YA novels, and was wondering how F&IYA/Melange was doing in the marketing/earnings field, now that a few more years had passed and track records have been accumulated. Are their authors pretty content with them, or have y'all outgrown them pretty quickly?