[Dean's World] Trudy W. Schuett: An Experiment in Publishing

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Posted by Trudy W. Schuett:
An Experiment in Publishing
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1186050444.shtml


   [1]http://trudywschuett.gather.com/

   Before I became a blogger and got into all the other things I do these
   days, I was an aspiring novelist. I've got several books sitting
   around on my hard drive doing nothing but taking up space, so when I
   heard about the [2]Gather First Chapter Romance Novel competition I
   figured it wouldn't hurt to try.

   Submissions started yesterday, and I'm kind of learning the unwritten
   rules as I go along. The written rules are that the submission with
   the most #10 ratings, in combination with the highest marks from a
   panel of judges, wins a contract with Simon & Schuster. (Numbers other
   than 10 don't count.)

   The way I see it, the judges are deciding on the merit of the piece,
   while the number of ratings shows the author's ability to promote
   his/her work.  I didn't realize that until yesterday, so unlike many
   others in the contest, I have no group of connections that will
   automatically go over and vote my first chapter a 10, just because
   they know me.

   I quit joining up with writer's groups several years ago, because
   often they're more about talking about writing, but not actually doing
   it, if you get my drift.

   Now, I know it's early, because formal voting doesn't start until Aug
   27, but I can see some of the entries getting comments and votes
   already. (They say they'll delete the early ones and start over, but
   who knows?) I'm also being sent to L.A. on TAD for two weeks, starting
   on the 12th, and two days is not enough to start building a group of
   connections, as they call it on Gather.

   So I'd like to make an appeal to the group here to go over to Gather
   and sign up as my connections. Of course, anybody else here wants to
   enter, I'll be your connection and vote for you! Why not? I've always
   been one to promote my friends. Hey, if I win, then you'll know
   somebody in mainstream publishing ;>)

   [3]Here's the link.  THX in advance!

References

   1. http://trudywschuett.gather.com/
   2. http://romancenovel.gather.com/
   3. http://trudywschuett.gather.com/