MY BOOK CAME!!!!!

[velvetpage]

I just got the proof copy of my book in the mail. I'm so excited!!!!!!!!

It's one of only two or three copies of this edition - it's got a different cover from the copy that will be for sale, has a very interesting and entirely fictitious author bio, the picture from the icon above as the picture of the author, and it's absolutely beautiful and I love it and I'm thrilled with it and I should be ashamed of this run-on sentence and I DON'T CARE because I'm EXCITED!!!!

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[ex-jaemin.livejournal.com]

Hello

First, congratulations on the book! That's awesome!

Second...er...well, you don't know me at all...though I am a very very close and good friend of Ani's. I have some questions about your book...most directly, how did you go about getting published? And what genre is your book in? I'm curious, as I have no idea how to go about publishing the things I've been writing.

Thanks!

And again, congratulations!

Frank

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid this isn't going to be much help, actually. The book is a fantasy novel based on a furry role-playing game called Ironclaw. My husband did a fair amount of writing for the game, and was play-testing a new supplement with that campaign. Since the book was set in the Ironclaw world, the publisher/author of Ironclaw, normanrafferty, whose comment is just above yours, owns the rights to the setting of my book. So I sent him the finished book, he liked it, and is publishing it. It's an inside deal from start to finish, which isn't to say the book isn't good - it is - just that I didn't have to work very hard at pitching it to publishers.

For advice on how to sell a book, check out mizkit. She wrote an entry a while back, though I can't find it in my bookmarks for some reason, abut how to get published. Hopefully it's in her memories.

[ex-jaemin.livejournal.com]

Heya!

Thank you so much for getting back to me! And thanks for the information and where to look!

Chookachooka on the book, once again...that's congratulations in Korean.

^.^

Thanks!

Frank