The Story of the Manuscript, Part 6: A Happy Ending?
THE STORY OF THE MANUSCRIPT, PART 6: A HAPPY ENDING?
After all the chaos my mind associates with States of Mercy, the novel seemed unlikely ever to see print. I refuse to self-publish (otherwise, there'd be fifteen novels and ten books of poetry with my name on them, many of those, frankly, terrible). The book was still in submission to half a dozen small presses when someone on my Facebook list sent me an invitation to the Alien Buddha Press group page. The first thing I saw there was ABP's call for submissions, so I sent the manuscript. It's a quirky press with an odd business model (please buy from Amazon--a phrase I haven't uttered with my other books), which suits me, as all my books are rather quirky and odd, and the editor loved the story. Before I signed the contract, I did warn him about the cursed nature of the manuscript and the previous potential publisher's sudden homelessness, but he assured me that he had gotten that out of the way BEFORE he started the press and that, although small, ABP was unlikely to be folding in the near future. So, there you have it. The manuscript has become a book. It's out in the would. Is that a happy ending? With the story of the manuscript, as with the story IN the manuscript, that's for you to decide.
https://www.amazon.com/States-Mercy-N...
After all the chaos my mind associates with States of Mercy, the novel seemed unlikely ever to see print. I refuse to self-publish (otherwise, there'd be fifteen novels and ten books of poetry with my name on them, many of those, frankly, terrible). The book was still in submission to half a dozen small presses when someone on my Facebook list sent me an invitation to the Alien Buddha Press group page. The first thing I saw there was ABP's call for submissions, so I sent the manuscript. It's a quirky press with an odd business model (please buy from Amazon--a phrase I haven't uttered with my other books), which suits me, as all my books are rather quirky and odd, and the editor loved the story. Before I signed the contract, I did warn him about the cursed nature of the manuscript and the previous potential publisher's sudden homelessness, but he assured me that he had gotten that out of the way BEFORE he started the press and that, although small, ABP was unlikely to be folding in the near future. So, there you have it. The manuscript has become a book. It's out in the would. Is that a happy ending? With the story of the manuscript, as with the story IN the manuscript, that's for you to decide.
https://www.amazon.com/States-Mercy-N...
No comments have been added yet.
