A New Horizon

by Miller Caldwell
6th October 2014

I have been writing for ten years. I've just written The Crazy Psychologist as my 7th novel and been through editors; third and fourth drafts gone to bed with the manta Show don't Tell; had two agents now both sadly dead and I've made a discovery . My style of writing, popular as it is locally, does not conform to the literary industry's dictate. My standard is more than satisfactory and my readership followers are growing. Aren't we getting a bit tired of the overly prosaic descriptions of weather etc? Perhaps my style is at the forefront of a new refreshing genre of entertaining and satisfying reading. Is the establishment ready to listen?

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Try reading The Parrot's Tale and see what I mean.

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Miller Caldwell
06/10/2014

Miller, without seeing any of your work, how can we say? (Though from this showing, you do need to be careful: ' had two agents now both sadly dead and I've made a discovery .'!)

There's room for all sorts of writing out there; but publishers put the bean-counters first, so they are looking for what sells a lot of books. It's an expensive business, and they need to recoup their costs.

If you are happy with your work, and you have a following, why not self-publish? You'd have to be your own editor or proof-reader, or purchase the services of professionals, to make sure that your product is as polished as it is possible to make it; amateurish punctuation, poor phrasing and lax formatting will lose readers. Bear in mind that traditionally-published writers have all had the benefit of in-house staff who exist solely to correct all their errors.

Not sure what descriptions of the weather have to do with producing an entire novel!

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