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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Is it true that your first book getting published should be a standalone and not part of a series?.It did used to be thought that a stand-alone was an easier sell. Now, it's really a case-be-case thing. It also used to be true that one... -
A. E. Lowan reacted to Devor's post in the thread Is it true that your first book getting published should be a standalone and not part of a series? with
Love.
It IS true that the first book in a series is much more difficult to sell, and that “stand alone with series potential” is the magic... -
An interesting and informative talk picking apart the Anthropic AI thing. I'm not involved, but someone else might be.
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread A Hello Full of Mixed Emotions.For me, at some point in 2012 I saw an ad go scrolling by on FB. Very first ad I'd ever clicked, and it brought me here. My wife and I...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to pmmg's post in the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published with Like.
No cocaine here. Sounds to me like you have found the gatekeepers. I would not think their numbers would be 90% but... when you find...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published.Bradbury, Azimov, McCaffrey, Dick (Philip K. - sorry!), Shelley... Cocaine was legal for a long time. And after, no one seems to have...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published with Love.
This is where it gets interesting. Fantasy books appeal to a wide range of potential readers and can sell very well, especially if...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to skip.knox's post in the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published with Love.
I read a fair amount of older fiction, pre-Internet. That is to say, fiction that was written when writing for a market was the...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published with Love.
I asked my publishers managing director about this, as I happened to meet him today and we had a chat over coffee and cake. His reply...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published with Love.
Yes, you could leave some of many of the details to the readers, let them do some of the work, as skip.knox suggests. For me, that leads...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published with Love.
I was intending to stay out of this discussion, but given that I'm so severely dyslexic that I qualify as disabled I'm going to shove my...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread How to NOT get discouraged from writing when faced with the genius of others? with Love.
Just want to step in here and mention that this is only the case for the majority of writers. There are some people out there who can't...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to Zombified Spider's post in the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published with Love.
As a lesbian, I can say that you are correct. Lesbians do see the world differently, and our problems are different than straight...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published with Love.
I agree up to a point with A. E. Lowan that the best answer to the question Why? probably is Why not? There's nothing wrong with...
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Sorry to hear. Prayers for you, and her, and those also grieving.