This video blog will chart the progress Brian Hughes will be making to get his novel The Boxpress Manifesto published.
Here's Part 1 of the journey...
Monday, January 7, 2008
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7 comments:
Well congratulations on finishing your novel and on working towards getting it published! I think documenting that process is a fine idea, especially because it can be both enlightening and frustrating, and probably to most people it seems like a very large undertaking. I myself am documenting the process of writing a novel among other projects so I'm curious to see how this progresses. I think the idea of considering turning it into 2 books is good and one suggestion I might make is what a couple of friends did when they shopped their work and that is, write up an outline of both options -the novel as a whole, or as two, point out the pros and cons of both and send that along to the publisher or agent that you're attempting to involve yourself with -it shows a kind of open-mindedness that many authors do not have with their work, many being inflexible about the finished product.
Regardless, I wish you much luck and I shall indeed keep tuning in and I'll also point any and all author-minded friends in this direction!
-Thérèse
Thanks Therese - if you don't mind, I might mention at some point your suggestion, because it is a good one. I also think that what agents/publishers like to see, is beyond the novel - what you have in addition to the current one you are shopping - so, I think, by breaking the novel up in two, I will have another behind it. Plus, I have another novel not related to this that I can write as well.
A series, with the same characters, is attractive as well.
Thanks again for your comment and support.
You're most welcome -and of course, mention whatever is helpful. I have several friends who either have had work published or are publishers (in fact if you had done a work of non-fiction I'd send you their way since that's all they handle and they're located in NY) -one of the things I've realized is just what you touched on -when getting an agent, they want to know that there's more in you than one piece of work because it makes you more marketable, so being able to say that not only do you have something that's potentially two novels but also that you've done other things like short stories and such, means they have a variety of ways to shop you to publishers and it makes your relationship with them a more viable one. You might even want to do a rough outline for a screenplay treatment as a great many pieces of fiction that are picked up are marketed then to film companies for potential purchase -if you can show them that it has potential as a film, along with being possibly a 2-part or more series, once again you've increased it's original worth ten-fold.
-Thérèse
This is such an amusing interview. Best of luck to Mr. Brian whom I hope will autograph a copy of his novel when it gets published.
Cool idea. Keep it going but get the rewrite done soon so it can be about gettin' it published!
I want to thank everyone who commented for the encouragement. And what one of you said about getting this fourth draft done so that I might be able to truly document the road to getting published - is both very true and a bit scary. But this is precisely why I have chosen to document this on video, so that I can rapidly get the next draft done and get it out to agents or publishers. I have dilly dallied too much with this book, and there is no reason to. It is good. It can change things. I know it. I feel it in my bones. But all of that means nothing if no one is reading it. Thanks again!
good stuff, looking forward to the next installment.
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