Hi authors and readers! I've been self publishing for a while. I'm about to (re)publish the first entry of the Adam Saint series, a book called Rune & Claw, which I previously published as a short novel until readers, particularly my LGBT readers, asked that I elevate the series to a proper Urban Fantasy offering. So I did!
When I queried agents with the MSS, those that responded politely declined on the basis that the main character was gay and therefore they'd have a hard time selling it. That's fine, I'm already self-published... but it irked me nonetheless.
The book is in it's final phase of revisions now, and I've started a pubslush campaign to try to raise money to launch the book in a big way. I hope to prove the concept, and potentially query again with hard data after the first few books are launched. I have readership, but a new pen name, new venues of marketing, wider reach, those things I am hoping to leverage into a series that can be taken seriously as mainstream genre-fiction proving that readers will read and enjoy an LGBT protagonist.
While I am, of course, looking for contribution, more importantly I'm hoping to get readers and authors to also spread the word, tweet, facebook, blog, and help me get eyes on the campaign.
The Campaign is Here and there are social media badges on the page. Your help would be amazing and may help me crack open the door to mainstream publishing of LGBT heroes in genre fiction.
When I queried agents with the MSS, those that responded politely declined on the basis that the main character was gay and therefore they'd have a hard time selling it. That's fine, I'm already self-published... but it irked me nonetheless.
The book is in it's final phase of revisions now, and I've started a pubslush campaign to try to raise money to launch the book in a big way. I hope to prove the concept, and potentially query again with hard data after the first few books are launched. I have readership, but a new pen name, new venues of marketing, wider reach, those things I am hoping to leverage into a series that can be taken seriously as mainstream genre-fiction proving that readers will read and enjoy an LGBT protagonist.
While I am, of course, looking for contribution, more importantly I'm hoping to get readers and authors to also spread the word, tweet, facebook, blog, and help me get eyes on the campaign.
The Campaign is Here and there are social media badges on the page. Your help would be amazing and may help me crack open the door to mainstream publishing of LGBT heroes in genre fiction.