Publish Me!
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I want to be a writer.
I have always created stories in my head, starting from when I was a (lonely) little girl. I have so many characters and storylines in my head it is not funny. The latest one, Ordinary People (working title), burst into my head fully formed, and I have already written several thousand words of content.
As well as writing just not my essay I have joined Inspired Writers and been looking into how a book is actually published. I don’t know whether it is a good or bad thing that there are so few publishers in NZ who publish young adult novels, but Harper Collins not only does, but it also has a track record for publishing vampire novels. And vampire stories never go out of style, and are currently a big thing: Twilight, Southern Vampire Mysteries (and the TV spin-off, True Blood) and many more.
So there’s a start.
Some of these stories I hear are putting me off a tad, but if people can publish crap like Cassie Claire, a known plagiarist, is churning out, then how hard is it to get something half-decent published?
Oh well. Finish first chapter, then work on building an internet fanbase.
My family has a secret.
It’s not like regular secrets, mind you. No one is an alcoholic. My sister, Bridget, didn’t get pregnant far too young and my parents secretly adopted the baby (that would be me). We don’t have a “funny uncle” or anything horrible like that. Even the fact that Adam, my eldest brother, is gay is not the secret (everyone knows about that). The secret concerns my other brother, Charlie. It really is his secret, but the rest of us – that’d be the rest of the family, plus a few select individuals – are burdened with it, too.
It’s one really big secret. Really, really big.
You see, Charlie is a vampire.
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Have you considered getting a few smaller pieces published first, rather than starting off with a full novel?
Cheesy supermarket tabloid women’s magazines always have fiction pieces in them (they solicit entries), and depending on your age, you can always look up youth publications in your area. I’ve been published in a bound collection of youth writing before, and am contemplating the women’s magazine route, as I write very good smut!
I’m thinking of starting off with a column in Critic, but then again I want to write academia, not fiction.
Interesting intro, anyway. If you want another set of eyes to look anything over, please feel free to send it on to me.
BTW, Ordinary People is the name of a rather large HG/SS fic…
I was actually thinking of that fic when I came up with that working title! You showed me the fic, and while nothing else is the same, the idea of how OP took two characters who were glamourised a lot in fic and make them “ordinary” was exactly what I was seeing for my OP. So many pretty vampires out there… what about an ordinary vampire?
Random extract is in the livejournal if you want to see what came to life first.
I know what you’re saying. Hoorah for writers! I’m sure if we work at it, we’ll get published. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. Aside from that, we have something that Stephanie Meyer and Cassie Claire don’t: Talent.
Keep writing, mon amie.