A book that ensures economic potentially massive sales. The seed money can give the editors
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Deale Donals Whalsh received a million dollars, and was new author …
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No book ‘ensures’ massive sales.
Huge advances are exceptionally rare, and for new authors, almost unheard of. You’d be very lucky to get as much as £1,000, to be honest. Plenty of new authors get no advance at all.
I want to watch the video on Youtube of when Slash mentored Adam, do you know what song he sang that week?
Whole Lotta Love originally by Led Zeppelin
I ask this because I’m eager to write a quality piece of writing, something that I can be proud of. I’ve written a novel and now looking back on it I can see how my writing has improved since I started it, which I believe is a good thing. How much writing do you have to do to become a ‘good’ writer?
Much thanks,
Katkin.
I started writing at 14, and 2 weeks ago I sent in my first short story for publication, at the age of 25.
I still don’t know if I’m a "good" writer, but I sure as heck am a better writer than I was at 14! The only way you can tell if you’re good enough to be published is to try to get published.
I’ve done a LOT of writing. Tons of fanfiction, then original fiction, then writing classes and writing and editing short stories for publication. I reread my fanfiction and I can see how far I’ve come… what I used to think was very good, insightful writing was very amateurish and cliche. I don’t know if I’m still amateurish and cliche, but I’m getting great feedback from whoever I show my writing to nowadays.
It’s really in how much you write. The more you write, the better you get. The only time you WON’T be growing as a writer is when you don’t practice writing.
Best of luck! Hope that helps answer your question!
I am writing a book about teenagers and young adults (primarily males) who commit terrible crimes: school shooters, serial killers, and mass murderers are some examples.
I am writing the book from the perspective of the psychological and sociological backgrounds of the perpetrators; this will not be a book detailing the crime itself; the thrust of the book is to understand why these men commit these crimes so that one can intervene and prevent others from doing so.
What publishers specialize in such books?
See if you can find a literary agent first, and then the agent will find a publisher for you. aaronline.org has a list of ethical agents, as does agentquery.com. If you can’t get an agent then there are some small publishers that take unsolicited manuscripts that publish non-fiction. I used to have a list of small publishers, but my computer went up in smoke, so I don’t have access to my bookmarks. You can also find a list of publishers at http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums under the Writer beware and background check section.
Ok, so I’m writing a novel and I’m 3/4 the way complete when I ran into a slight dilemma…I’m not quite sure what Fiction sub-genre (if any) my story belongs to. So I will give you a quick look-see at what elements I have:
-The use of a magic system
-The story takes place in far future (3050 to be exact)
-space travel
-fictional creatures/races
-advanced technology
-defiance of known natural laws
I know this might seem quite odd that the author doesn’t know the exact genre of her own story, BUT I only ask because I’ve never read any sci-fi books, so I’m not sure if this is just fiction with futuristic elements…or sci-fi in the making.
Another reason why I ask is because I don’t want any sci-fi enthusiasts to hound me for writing a bad sci-fi book…when that wasn’t really my aim to begin with!
In response to stmichaeldet response:
I was writing this work based on a source that many might not be familiar with to begin with, that source is Japanese style RPGs (fantasy/adventure) like the Star Ocean series, which has 90% sci-fi elements, and %10 magic (fantasy). I have played plenty to know exactly what I am aiming to write, HOWEVER in the book world, a clearer classification is required, that is why I posted this question, to figure out where it best falls. Perhaps I should have asked if it is Fantasy, or Sci-fi, but based on the answers thus far, I’d probably say this is a cross-genre novel.
Sounds like a cross-genre SF/F, what with the combination of science and magic. Nothing wrong with that.
So again, what are some young adult high fantasy books? I’m thinking of writing one so I’d like to know what else is on the market. Also, if you’ve read them could you share your opinion?
hush hush by becca fitzpatrick – the writing wasn’t brilliant but the story line and characters made up for that. It’s about a girl who falls for the fallen.
Wicked lovely series – it’s about faeries but the main character is one I read a lot about – stubborn, allways gets her own way, her opinion is the one that’s right. She is stupid and grrrr. And the book itself goes on and on about boring stuff it’s like – get to the point!!!
house of night – the main girl is ridiculous. All the boys fall over her and she hates cows and £luts and becomes the biggest one of them. The "twins" are so annoying you want to shoot them. It’s about a stupid idiot that goes to a vampyre (yeah, it’s spelt like that LOL) Academy school thing and becomes the most popular, prettiest , most wanted spoilt brat! The writing is poor as well.
the mortal instruments by cassandra clare – this is a good series and the main boy character is sarcastic and funny. However, the plot was poor. I knew they weren’t really blah blah and so she kept it spinning out till the third book and I already new from the first book that it wasn’t true. The main girl character is like the two above – bossy, spoilt , annoying b1tch that wants her own way. Writers try to portray these girls as strong women but fail miserable. There is a line between bossy and strong.
Evernight by Claudia gray is another vampire book. the main girl character is not like the other three characters above me. She is quite quiet and I could relate to her in many situations. The plot is too overused (vamp falls in love with vamp hunter) but overall it was a good book and so was the series.
shiver by maggie – this is a shapeshifting series and it was good. However, the setting is always in this one small town and not much happens in the book. I can barely remember it. Although it was refreshing reading both points of views and the main girl character is louder than the boy which is different and I like it.
Need by carrie jones. This is about pixies and is very stranged. The main girl reminds me of my friend and she is very very strange. But it gets much much better in captivate . This book features were’s (shapeshifters) and a very clear view on pixies.
I read this story online a couple of years ago, I think. Pretty sure it was by a female author, and though I’m not sure about the year, I know it was written a fairly long time ago. Probably somewhere in the 30’s-60’s, though I could be wrong. It was a LONG one-shot, with no real chapters.
It was about this group of 3-5 people with very strange names (I know that one was female, and one was extremely stupid), trapped in a virtual world created by a super intelligent computer. This computer manifested itself as a man sometimes, and "he" absolutely hated everything about humanity.
Apparently, humankind had long died off except for these few remaining individuals (who, I’m thinking for some reason, were scientists), because artificial intelligence had long since taken over and decided the world was better off without us… and these few people were kept alive merely for the computer’s twisted amusement, as an everlasting punishment towards humanity. They were kept alive indefinitely, with barely enough nourishment to get by.
Eventually, if I remember correctly, they decided to revolt and outright refused to be slaves to the computer… I can’t recall exactly how they did this, but this angered the computer greatly & it punished them as harshly as possible, the final punishment being to reduce them all to these horrifying, blob creatures with no semblance of their former humanity. It was absolutely sickening.
…SO, if anyone knows what the name or author is, and possibly where I can find this story again, that would be wonderful. I tried to describe it as much as I could without overdoing it. 
Thanks.
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison.
Please help, I have been given an impossible task of coming up with "thoughts of the day". The topic for the week is science fiction, so somehow the thoughts must be related to sci fi. Whether it is a quote which is also like a thought for the day or if it’s about science fiction.
Any thoughts/quotes welcome, but please state where it is from, even if you make it up!
Thank you!!!! I really need help, I’m so stuck, I know nothing about science fiction.
Grok – to fully comprehend and embrace something. From Robert Heinlein’s "Stranger in a Strange Land"
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grok
I want to read good fantasy books like these that seduces you to read the other books that follows them. Do you have any suggestions?
I’ve already read Beedle the Bard and Spiderwick. ^^
Pendragon by DJ MacHale
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Grey Griffins by Derek Benz and JS Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The Inkheart Trilogy by Cornelia Funke
Septimus Heap by Angie Sage
The Land of Elyon by Patrick Carman
The Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson
The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
Someone suggested the 39 Clues. First off, you need to know that it isn’t a fantasy series, but an adventure series. Secondly, if you choose to read it (I recommend it, because I absolutely love it), the author is not soley Rick Riordan, but various other authors. The first one is by Rick Riordan, the second Gordon Korman, the third Peter Lerangis, the fourth Jude Watson, the fifth Patrick Carman, the sixth Jude Watson, the seventh Lerangis again, the eighth Korman again, the ninth Linda Sue Park, the tenth and final Margaret Peterson Haddix.
I need to get night slash on a gallade. i saw in bulbledia that you learn it at the start but how do i make sure it gets it. Please Help.
In blackthorn go to the tutor house. Next to the move deleter there is a move relearner. From there you can learn any move previously learn at earlier levels by trading a heart scale.