THANKS...AND A FEW MORE Qs

I really don't have realibale information. I know, like James, that Star is reputable and I have bought some of their books myself and found them to be good quality.

Anything else is a guess. A first run, maybe 1000 maybe 100000, royalty on print tend to be around 10-20% (I think). Advances, no idea, nothing to a thousand maybe. This is all just rampant guesswork.

My approach to getting the goss is to look up theior existing authors and find one I either have something in common with or who was published very recently and is a first time author (hence recently in the same boat) and email them in private. That way you get accurate up to the minute information confidentially.

I imagine you may wait a few months before hearing anything as there is likely to be some sort of 'process' where the manuscript are read and there is a meeting to discuss possibles. You have one person in your corner, that's a very good start.

Congrats on the request for a full. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

p.s. This is the group I mentioned before. There are a few authors of gay fiction there and somebody migth have more information for you.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheUncommonQuill/