28 Jul 2005, 3:09 pm
how cool is that, paulb? 
the publishing process: send sample chapters of novel to agents, then just have to wait for the rejection letters, then for one of them to be interested (especially if they're in a bad mood when they read it), then they ask for the whole novel, then they have to still be interested, then have to meet them to see if we get on, then they have to sell the idea to a publisher, then there are about four levels of "selling the idea" to various editors, then someone agrees it would be worth publishing, then an editor has to argue with you about rewrites, then you do the rewrites, then you argue some more, then they print up the galleys, then the copy editor checks them, then you check them, then you have all sorts of rows about jacket cover, then it's published, then you make about three and a half pence.
this is actually the process of getting a book published. and i've left out several of the more boring or frustrating bits.
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28 Jul 2005, 5:44 pm
I got a poem published once in a book for the NAS. I was completly spazzing about it for a long time until I realised how bad the poem was. 
But I'm constantly working on several books (at the moment a series of seven that I've been working on for a couple of years and a one of high-fantasy book), with the dream of publishing them... I doubt it'll happen, but it's nice to dream!
