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Change of plans
4 years ago
I've queried over two dozen agents for Werewolf's Humanity now without any luck. Most of the rejections I've gotten were form rejections, no surprise there, but a few have been considerate enough to add some personal notes. One of the criticisms I've gotten more than once is that the novel is just too long for a first-time author. The average length for an unpublished, unproven author is around 80-90 K words, where WH is over 132K. So...
I've decided to split the stories into to volumes and write a new ending for volume one. I've already begun writing down ideas for story 7.5, which will be set after "Elizabeth" and will hopefully be an epic enough climax to the first novel. "Favors" will become the opening story to the second volume, which if that ever gets published will be titled "Werewolf's Family." I'm going to start working on this new story soon and then start submitting it around to agents again. And if it continues getting rejected... then it'll be time to look into self-publishing.
And while I have your attention, check out these recent commissions I got!
-Sammy and Donnie during his werewolf training: https://twitter.com/silkyfangs/stat.....85027043909633
-Sammy and Reilly from the opening scene in "Turn, Turn, Turn": https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40694786/
I've decided to split the stories into to volumes and write a new ending for volume one. I've already begun writing down ideas for story 7.5, which will be set after "Elizabeth" and will hopefully be an epic enough climax to the first novel. "Favors" will become the opening story to the second volume, which if that ever gets published will be titled "Werewolf's Family." I'm going to start working on this new story soon and then start submitting it around to agents again. And if it continues getting rejected... then it'll be time to look into self-publishing.
And while I have your attention, check out these recent commissions I got!
-Sammy and Donnie during his werewolf training: https://twitter.com/silkyfangs/stat.....85027043909633
-Sammy and Reilly from the opening scene in "Turn, Turn, Turn": https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40694786/
Rif_Foxworthy
~riffoxworthy
Oh, too bad!
JZLobo
~jzlobo
OP
Maybe, or maybe the end product will be better. We'll find out!
Sasco
~sasco
Sorry to hear that but hopefully splitting them up gives you better results!
JZLobo
~jzlobo
OP
I hope so too, thanks
Witwer
~witwer
As someone who would also like to publish a werewolf novel in the future, I feel this. I haven't tried to query yet, but I've heard enough stories to know the struggle is real... as is the word count crunch. Though 90 k seems short of a fantasy novel that isn't young adult. Still, I wish you the best of luck in your efforts.
JZLobo
~jzlobo
OP
It might be short, but I can't really fight against an industry standard. Besides, if I split it in half then I'll have a sequel ready to go if the publishers want it. Plus I'll have room to embellish; I've already been adding new scenes here and there to some of the stories. Thanks, and good luck to you!
