I don’t know how I sold it, to be honest. I was totally surprised myself. My publisher even offered me a contract for a second book to come after this one, can you imagine! I can’t even see myself writing a second one after the first one, since I have doubts I will ever be able to finish it. So I don’t know, they just read it and offered me two contracts for two books, amazing right?!
I don’t know how I sold it, to be honest. I was totally surprised myself. My publisher even offered me a contract for a second book to come after this one, can you imagine! I can’t even see myself writing a second one after the first one, since I have doubts I will ever be able to finish it. So I don’t know, they just read it and offered me two contracts for two books, amazing right?!
yeah, that's amazing!!! Congratulations. Please ignore this advice, but when my first book sold, i was offered a two-book deal. Like you, I had big doubts about writing a second one. I ended up NOT taking the deal. In retrospect, that was a huge mistake. I did write a second book and selling it was harder, though it did sell. And I realized that if i'd signed a two-book contract, my publisher would have been much more invested in me. Oh, well. Live and learn. And don't listen to me! Do what feels right to you!
Well, in addition to this: we don’t have literary agents in Holland, you just send your manuscript to a publisher and cross your fingers. I just started writing things down when I got stuck in life, suffering from panic attacks and so on. Not even with the idea in mind of publishing. But in my case, I was fortunate enough to meet a successful author and chatted with him at the time about my ‘thing’ of 900 pages back then, I didn’t know if it could ever become an actual book or that it was rubbish, drooling. So he offered to read some of it and then came back to me that same day and kind of forced me to send it straight away. So I did and... well it worked! We’ve been discussing the possibility of making a trilogy but in the end agreed it was better in the ‘large stone version’ as my publisher calls it.
Intriguing...and amazing! Sounds like your elephant is being guided by angels. I would really love to hear more about your creative process and where your story rose up from. From here, it sounds like there's a powerful message coming through you and that your writing has been unfettered by a lot of expectation, market driven motivations, and the like.
Wishing you all the best in recovering that passion that was there for blasting out 1200 pages (!!!), may it fill you again for the rewrite. Anticipate magic!
i know how dumb this sounds, but i don't talk about them here. If you want to post your email address here, I'll write to you. Believe me when I say i know how stupid this is.
No, not at all. I would feel terrified to post my work here, with such excellent readers. But I’m curious, so please email me if you’d like to. Ansuyaspreksel@gmail.com.
Would the book work as two books? Like, you end the first book on a cliffhanger,of sorts, and then comes the second book? Or three books? Just another idea to throw in there!
Hi Ansuya: First of all your writing must be good or you ould not have received a acceptance. Great. I once used large index cards like a move script and then was able to get the book to a reasonable story. Also you may have two books. Gook Luck.
We’ve been playing with that idea at the publishing house, yes. It’s still a possibility, but then the storyline would almost have to be chronological, like Deborah Levy’s autobiographical novel series,it, or Tove Ditlevsen.
I don’t know how I sold it, to be honest. I was totally surprised myself. My publisher even offered me a contract for a second book to come after this one, can you imagine! I can’t even see myself writing a second one after the first one, since I have doubts I will ever be able to finish it. So I don’t know, they just read it and offered me two contracts for two books, amazing right?!
yeah, that's amazing!!! Congratulations. Please ignore this advice, but when my first book sold, i was offered a two-book deal. Like you, I had big doubts about writing a second one. I ended up NOT taking the deal. In retrospect, that was a huge mistake. I did write a second book and selling it was harder, though it did sell. And I realized that if i'd signed a two-book contract, my publisher would have been much more invested in me. Oh, well. Live and learn. And don't listen to me! Do what feels right to you!
Well, in addition to this: we don’t have literary agents in Holland, you just send your manuscript to a publisher and cross your fingers. I just started writing things down when I got stuck in life, suffering from panic attacks and so on. Not even with the idea in mind of publishing. But in my case, I was fortunate enough to meet a successful author and chatted with him at the time about my ‘thing’ of 900 pages back then, I didn’t know if it could ever become an actual book or that it was rubbish, drooling. So he offered to read some of it and then came back to me that same day and kind of forced me to send it straight away. So I did and... well it worked! We’ve been discussing the possibility of making a trilogy but in the end agreed it was better in the ‘large stone version’ as my publisher calls it.
Intriguing...and amazing! Sounds like your elephant is being guided by angels. I would really love to hear more about your creative process and where your story rose up from. From here, it sounds like there's a powerful message coming through you and that your writing has been unfettered by a lot of expectation, market driven motivations, and the like.
Wishing you all the best in recovering that passion that was there for blasting out 1200 pages (!!!), may it fill you again for the rewrite. Anticipate magic!
amazing!
I’d like to read your books. What’s the title, if I may ask?
i know how dumb this sounds, but i don't talk about them here. If you want to post your email address here, I'll write to you. Believe me when I say i know how stupid this is.
Will you please tell me also? nancygage@aol.com
No, not at all. I would feel terrified to post my work here, with such excellent readers. But I’m curious, so please email me if you’d like to. Ansuyaspreksel@gmail.com.
wrote you.
Me also please, Mary (pips123@gmail.com). I'm already a fan of your writing. Thanks!
Me too Mary jesunder7@me.com
I would love to know the titles as well. kcgrier72@gmail.com
Ansuya,
Would the book work as two books? Like, you end the first book on a cliffhanger,of sorts, and then comes the second book? Or three books? Just another idea to throw in there!
Oh, sorry, I'm just seeing below that you discussed this with your publisher...
If they liked the version you sent, why the long rewrite?
Hi Ansuya: First of all your writing must be good or you ould not have received a acceptance. Great. I once used large index cards like a move script and then was able to get the book to a reasonable story. Also you may have two books. Gook Luck.
We’ve been playing with that idea at the publishing house, yes. It’s still a possibility, but then the storyline would almost have to be chronological, like Deborah Levy’s autobiographical novel series,it, or Tove Ditlevsen.