Can anyone advise on authors who really play around with 'rules'?
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Hi Frank,
Thanks for that. I think I may have worded my question badly. What I meant was can you tell me some already published authors who have broken rules. I know 'House of Leaves' was a bit of a rule breaker and various other books have started at the end etc. Just feel like reading something totally different. Has anyone read Eleanor Catton's new book The Rehearsal? Think it's meant to be a bit different. Am going to take a look at the website you recommended though so thanks for that :)
But the simple answer to your question is. You will never get picked up by an agent or Publisher, if you have strayed to far off the well beaten track.
Books are about making money. Its an industry. If its your hobby, then go for it and self publish. If it is an amazing story, that starts at the end then jumps to another storyline entirely and ends at the beginning of yet another book. And people love it. And download your free book in their millions. You will be snapped up by the publishers and who knows it may become the new norm/standard and the markets will be flooded with copies.
If on the other hand you have a book with a bog standard standard start-middle-end that is exciting, well written and edited and may have a chance of a long running series.
Try Endeavour Press. Who have opened for submissions again.
Hi Frank,
Thanks for that. I think I may have worded my question badly. What I meant was can you tell me some already published authors who have broken rules. I know 'House of Leaves' was a bit of a rule breaker and various other books have started at the end etc. Just feel like reading something totally different. Has anyone read Eleanor Catton's new book The Rehearsal? Think it's meant to be a bit different. Am going to take a look at the website you recommended though so thanks for that :)
By all means break the rules.
But the simple answer to your question is. You will never get picked up by an agent or Publisher, if you have strayed to far off the well beaten track.
Books are about making money. Its an industry. If its your hobby, then go for it and self publish. If it is an amazing story, that starts at the end then jumps to another storyline entirely and ends at the beginning of yet another book. And people love it. And download your free book in their millions. You will be snapped up by the publishers and who knows it may become the new norm/standard and the markets will be flooded with copies.
If on the other hand you have a book with a bog standard standard start-middle-end that is exciting, well written and edited and may have a chance of a long running series.
Try Endeavour Press. Who have opened for submissions again.
http://endeavourpress.com/submissions/
Either way, good luck with your venture