Hi guys! Here's my quandary. I'm working on a short story cycle that I hope to present as a novel, and within it is a 90-page novella, which I really want to see the light of day...right NOW because I'm impatient! I want to try Narrative, but I'm concerned that having big chunks of this project available online will impede my chances of publishing it as part of a longer work? Currently, only the first story/chapter is published (also in Narrative) ... if they accept the novella, about 25,000 words of the 80,000 word book will be available for free online. Is this a good or bad idea? I know that for short story collections, it's good to have most of the stories published, but I'm calling this a novel and I'm not sure if that's the case for novels. I'm not going to try small presses with the novella because I want the longer collection to be published nationally (lofty goal!) and I'm having very promising exchanges with an agent right now. Anyway ... looking forward to hearing your thoughts ...
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