Just out of curiosity, is there anything in the bookstores that was once, in a prehistoric draft, posted in one of the SYW forums?
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I've been able to follow the successful query letters thread to some authors who posted their beginning pages in one of the SYW forums. I like to see beyond the letter to the pages that went along with the letter that garnered interest. It can be a bit tricky to search, but sometimes you come up with something.
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My book should be out this fall and I posted a few stuff on SYW. But it was about four years ago.
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I've beta read a handful which later appeared on shelves in stores. My offer to beta usually stemmed from work posted in SYW, but not always, and now I'm not sure which is which.
But yeah, as others have said, lots of work found commercial publishers after being honed at SYW.
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But yeah, as others have said, lots of work found commercial publishers after being honed at SYW.
Maryn, whetstone in hand
I am strongly considering posting my prologue just to get a feel for the general consensus of 'good/bad' opinions so that I can discover whether or not people enjoy what I have written, aside from my beta's, only one of which is actually a writer.
The readers all love it, but how do writers take it?
The readers all love it, but how do writers take it?
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