Marching Forward
Having just launched THE THING IN YELLOW, I'm in the place of focusing on my next works. This is where it gets more complicated, as I walk away from indie horror.
I've got three works that I'm polishing up for trad markets -- all three are thriller-based. One of them I'm already querying to agents, while the other two I'm preparing for that process.
Additionally, I've got two other projects that are completed and I'm looking for homes for them.
The trad market-surfing is always fraught for me, because it's entirely dependent on agents getting around to rejecting the work, and some of them have longer timescales than others, and it's easy to lose track. I recommend keeping tabs in a database.
The other aspect of trad-surfing that bugs me is it leaves the work in question in limbo for a very long time: 1) first, you have to try to catch an agent's interest and acceptance (huge lift); 2) even if you cross that first hurdle, then the agent has to manage to wrangle a sale with a publisher; and 3) that book gets locked into the publisher's production schedule. That stretches the launch date far over the horizon. Two years? Three years? Longer? Who knows?
I've got three works that I'm polishing up for trad markets -- all three are thriller-based. One of them I'm already querying to agents, while the other two I'm preparing for that process.
Additionally, I've got two other projects that are completed and I'm looking for homes for them.
The trad market-surfing is always fraught for me, because it's entirely dependent on agents getting around to rejecting the work, and some of them have longer timescales than others, and it's easy to lose track. I recommend keeping tabs in a database.
The other aspect of trad-surfing that bugs me is it leaves the work in question in limbo for a very long time: 1) first, you have to try to catch an agent's interest and acceptance (huge lift); 2) even if you cross that first hurdle, then the agent has to manage to wrangle a sale with a publisher; and 3) that book gets locked into the publisher's production schedule. That stretches the launch date far over the horizon. Two years? Three years? Longer? Who knows?
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