 Advice re: getting published
Not sure where in the thread to post this. But you'll find it.
I know some writers. Some are even published. This is what I've learned from them regarding actually getting published.
If you want to get what you've written published you just have to keep sending it to publishers until someone picks it up. Are you familiar with "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle? She told my sister once (how they met I do not know), that book was rejected 92 times.
Pamela Keyes has two books out (so far) "The Rune of Zachary Zimbalist" and "The Legend of Zamiel Zimbalist." She sent her manuscripts to more than 100 publishers before she quit counting. She didn't get to choose the cover art, and kids will judge a book by its cover, so...but the kids I know who actually read the books LOVED them. And so did I. The point is, now she's a published author her next book didn't take quite as much shopping around to find a publisher and she's with a bigger publishing house this time. The "Jumbee" is scheduled for a 2010 release...it takes a while.
My sister has written a couple novels. I thought they had potential. She has some connections and was introduced to an agent. He said of one of her stories: "sorry not my kind of book." She sent it to like two more people and gave up. (She's not a failure; she's just not a writer.)
Of course you can make this work. (Eventually you'll have to tell us your real name, or you pen name anyway, so we can find your book.)
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