OUT OF ALL HOOPING
Apr. 27th, 2015 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanI have, not exactly in my hand right now, but very near by, and honestly I think I might sleep with it under my pillow, the termination paperwork for The Dubious Hills AND the cancelled and as-yet unpublished sequel to Hills, that is, the work sometimes known as Going North.
This has been imminent for some weeks now and I have been trying to figure out what to do. I will let you guys know as soon as I have.
What I can say is that Going North needs to be re-expanded, not to its former two-volume length, but by perhaps 20,000 words; that probably not all of them will be words that I have already written; and that I am very well, indeed painfully, aware that people have been waiting for far, far too long for this book; so I will do my best to be expeditious.
One might well ask why I didn't do the revisions while I was awaiting the paperwork, but I can only say that they had not come properly into focus, and in fact I needed to write a short story first to get things to line up or clear up or whatever this analogy thinks it is doing just now. I would apologize for my creative process, but that wouldn't make it any less annoying.
Pamela
This has been imminent for some weeks now and I have been trying to figure out what to do. I will let you guys know as soon as I have.
What I can say is that Going North needs to be re-expanded, not to its former two-volume length, but by perhaps 20,000 words; that probably not all of them will be words that I have already written; and that I am very well, indeed painfully, aware that people have been waiting for far, far too long for this book; so I will do my best to be expeditious.
One might well ask why I didn't do the revisions while I was awaiting the paperwork, but I can only say that they had not come properly into focus, and in fact I needed to write a short story first to get things to line up or clear up or whatever this analogy thinks it is doing just now. I would apologize for my creative process, but that wouldn't make it any less annoying.
Pamela
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Date: 2015-04-28 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-28 11:30 pm (UTC)My sentence was getting too long, but Going North is actually a joint sequel to The Dubious Hills and to the whole Secret Country trilogy, but especially to the third volume of the trilogy.
P.
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Date: 2015-05-03 11:55 pm (UTC)You'll have the final say in what word count best supports the story, and you don't have the impediment newbie writers face of building a platform. You have a lot of readers who already love your work and will go out of their way to find it and review it and spread the word. Plus the royalty structure is much more in your favor and no portion to an agent.