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Alex Scarrow
Ape
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 Posted - 12 December 2005 : 4:15:26 PM
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I raised the subject at my meeting, and my agent suggested it would probably be wise to wait until after the book had landed a publisher to submit it to a small cadre of trustworthy readers.
So, I'm really sorry guys. For now, I'll have to keep it under wraps. Which is a shame because I'm gagging to get some wider feedback in on it.
Anyway...keep watching this spot. I've got a much stronger gut feeling about EQ than I had about A Thousand Suns.
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 December 2005 : 4:19:48 PM
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Tis fine you have to protect your intellectual property and all that!!
We are here when you need us!!
And it must be really eating you up, it bad enough when you get to review a book and cannot talk to everyone about the contents....even worse when you proof read as thats so far in advance...it eats you alive!!
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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John Prigent
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 December 2005 : 5:58:36 PM
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I second Parmenion's message. We're here when you need us!
Cheers
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Will
Invertebrate
United Kingdom
146 Posts |
Posted - 14 December 2005 : 4:45:02 PM
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| Indeed! |
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Justin Coles
Small mammal
United Kingdom
574 Posts |
Posted - 14 December 2005 : 11:57:08 PM
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| Well said... |
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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
6609 Posts |
Posted - 16 December 2005 : 11:57:15 AM
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absolutely,
To echo John, you only need to ask.
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If all the worlds a stage?
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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
6609 Posts |
Posted - 10 January 2006 : 9:04:52 PM
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Hey Alex,
Any news on the take up by a publisher of your EQ book??
From the ebay bidding on A thousand suns proofs, and you think EQ will be even bigger, methinks you going onto great things!
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If all the worlds a stage?
Where's my script???
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Alex Scarrow
Ape
968 Posts |
Posted - 11 January 2006 : 09:11:44 AM
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| I'm working through some revisions with my agent right now. Tweaks really...so until we're done with that, we're holding it back. That said, I'm gagging to get it out there. |
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
13792 Posts |
Posted - 11 January 2006 : 09:14:04 AM
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so are we!!....chop chop LOL!!
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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Sokarin
Single Cell Organism
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Posted - 25 January 2006 : 5:38:07 PM
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I can't wait!
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Iacta alea est.
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Will
Invertebrate
United Kingdom
146 Posts |
Posted - 25 January 2006 : 5:57:53 PM
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| Yeah me neither! |
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Stomachus Grossus
Homosapien
United Kingdom
1847 Posts |
Posted - 01 February 2006 : 1:49:44 PM
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Sounds good to me
Vini Vidi Pizza
(I came, I saw, I ate Pizza)
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KilboFraggins
Invertebrate
United Kingdom
134 Posts |
Posted - 13 March 2006 : 7:48:09 PM
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| What's the latest with this book/series? I like the sound of it, a lot. I'm in too if there's some sort of test-reader programme being sorted out. |
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Alex Scarrow
Ape
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Posted - 19 March 2006 : 5:31:23 PM
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| It's out with publishers right now. I'm hoping to hear back in the next few weeks. Fingers crossed, one or more of them will like it. Until there's a publisher attached, then I've been advised to keep the story under wraps. Sorry Kilbo, but hopefully soon I'll be able to run this past a few core betas. Watch this space. |
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
13792 Posts |
Posted - 21 March 2006 : 11:24:40 AM
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{the anticipation is killing me!! do you need any publishers..."persuading" ??) LOL!!
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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
6609 Posts |
Posted - 21 March 2006 : 11:33:20 AM
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What do you mean by 'persuading' Parm, i'm sure Alex doesnt want horses head appearing in publishers beds one dark night, people might think he's some nutcase 
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If all the worlds a stage?
Where's my script???
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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
6609 Posts |
Posted - 11 April 2006 : 09:36:07 AM
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Hey Alex,
Any nibbles from the publishers you sent EQ too??? you must have heard something by now??? (least i hope so!)
If you dont get any nibbles you going to try again or explore other possibilities?
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If all the worlds a stage?
Where's my script???
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
13792 Posts |
Posted - 11 April 2006 : 09:38:14 AM
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I have some smelly dead fish in some newspaper, where do i need to post them???
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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Alex Scarrow
Ape
968 Posts |
Posted - 11 April 2006 : 11:18:02 AM
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I've had a rejection. 1st comeback from the 9 publishers. I'm not overly worried, they're a publisher that posted some big losses last year and I believe are struggling a bit. So with hindsight not somebody I'd want snapping me up.
The wording of the rejection struck me as pretty standard. |
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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
6609 Posts |
Posted - 11 April 2006 : 11:31:20 AM
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not the result you hoped for i'm sure, but then again least it shows it's being read.
Lets just hope that one of the others picks it up. still a 1 in 8 chance of getting a publisher.
I'm sure everyone here will have every limb crossed (although will make walking rather difficult.hehe)
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If all the worlds a stage?
Where's my script???
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
13792 Posts |
Posted - 11 April 2006 : 11:42:13 AM
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you should print off some of the forum posts to go with the book to the publishers and also some of the ebay pages for the proofs of a thousand suns... show them the kind of money your book is selling for pre publication...
demand is out there!!
Fingers crossed Alex, and if we can help just shout!!
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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Alex Scarrow
Ape
968 Posts |
Posted - 11 April 2006 : 2:34:46 PM
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| cheers guys. I'm sure it'll come good in due course. |
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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
6609 Posts |
Posted - 11 April 2006 : 3:30:07 PM
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I'm definate it will, we just need to convince the publishers of the same fact....
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If all the worlds a stage?
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
13792 Posts |
Posted - 21 April 2006 : 3:44:36 PM
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So Alex, any further news on this??
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Alex Scarrow
Ape
968 Posts |
Posted - 21 April 2006 : 4:35:00 PM
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| Still waiting. Responses negative or positive are pretty much due about now. It usually takes publishers about 3 months or more to review a ms. It took about 6 months before I heard back on SUNS. So...I'd guess in the next four weeks or so all 9 will have come back one way or the other. |
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
13792 Posts |
Posted - 21 April 2006 : 4:41:48 PM
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All forum fingers crossed!! im sure one of them will see the obvious potential!!
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KilboFraggins
Invertebrate
United Kingdom
134 Posts |
Posted - 19 May 2006 : 11:24:21 AM
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Any news on this? I'm getting a little impatient now :-)
Alex, have you thought about publishing chapters on the website if you can't find a normal publisher to buy it? I have read several big book deals happened because an editor saw a blog, or sample chapters on various author websites. |
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mjv
Invertebrate
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Posted - 21 May 2006 : 03:31:18 AM
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| Being a nosey bugger, what's Orion's position on EQ? Is it that they want to publish you in only a 1000 Suns genre? Have you tried whoever publishs Tom Holt? He's difficult to pigeon hole. |
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Alex Scarrow
Ape
968 Posts |
Posted - 21 May 2006 : 08:20:29 AM
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Kilbo, self publishing, which is generally considered a waste of time and a money-sink for fiction, is a path I have considered for EQ. I had a suspicion that EQ would be hard to sell because it's so very hard to market, straddling as it does, several genres. Whereas most authors who do try self-publishing, do so because, to be kind, their book has limited appeal, or just....ahem...isn't all that - they end up perhaps selling a few hundred, and a garage full of boxes of copies. In my instance, I hopefully will have a growing word-of-mouth reputation as a result of A Thousand Suns, and exposure via our website and this wonderful forum to a steady flow of Eagles, YoungBloods and Suns fans. It's an idea I might consider...if EQ is too tricky for publishers to handle.
As for publishing on the site chapter by chapter....if I self published, I'd make available a sample of it probably - enough for people to get sucked into it - but certainly not all of it. I need to earn something ;-)
Mjv: Yeah, I might try the likes of Tom Holt's publisher, Eoin Colfer...but I'm wary of EQ being pushed into a scifi/fantasy pigeonhole, because from the ground up, it was written as a book designed to breakout of that kind of genre, in the same way HitchHikers Guide burst out of Scifi and became mainstream. There are hundreds of thousands of people who have read Douglas Adams, who otherwise would have never read ANY science fiction. |
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mjv
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Posted - 21 May 2006 : 4:50:46 PM
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RE - self-publishing - WH Smiths used to sell, I think for 99p a £1, whatever, a couple of chapters of new authors / new books , not sure if they sponsored it or the publishers did, that's how I ending up reading Tom Holt's Portable Door.
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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
6609 Posts |
Posted - 21 May 2006 : 4:57:36 PM
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Actually that doesnt sound a bad idea Alex, you could always release ch1-3 in mini book form, and partner with loca Bookshops to market it. just need to think about printing costs but will be cheaper to do short books rather than a full length book. might even give impetus for a publisher to pick it up as you could get it reveiwed etc.....
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