(my short and stupid experience of trying to get published by the system like a good boy)

today is the one year anniversary of the publication of my first novel Phantasia, and i thought it would be fun to talk about what happened between finishing it and releasing it six months later or so.

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after fifteen years of writing no fiction at all, and of having the thought give me nausea, i was as surprised as anyone that i had written a novel. but somehow it happened. and what do you do afterward, if not try to publish it. and since i was quite surprised and also proud of myself, i wanted t...