short story project so far

Mark Lewin · 01 Aug 2014, 08:19 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: mark at marklewin.com (Mark Lewin)
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:19:02 +0100
Subject: (urth) short story project so far
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+1 for a print-on-demand version for my Wolfe shelf :)

It's been a great series and has really added to my enjoyment of the
stories themselves. Good job, Marc!

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014, at 09:00 AM, Mo Holkar wrote:
> At 18:36 31/07/2014, Marc wrote:
> >Of course it would need hefty revision and 
> >citation, but lately I have considered perhaps 
> >trying to publish it upon completion - short 
> >essays on the long fiction in front which would 
> >be my own thesis based? developments, not? 
> >comprehensive looks at all,? and the story 
> >analysis section after that.?  A traditional 
> >publisher would never touch it, I imagine, and 
> >it would be far too big for a small or 
> >university press, but perhaps an ebook would 
> >work.?  Anyone think that would be 
> >viable??  Should I even, say, try to split it in 
> >half??  Just thought I would see what you guys 
> >thought, as this has been a WHOLE lot of work, even though I love it.
> 
> 
> I think if it was me I would make it available 
> print-on-demand as well as ebook. It's an extra 
> chunk of work to prepare the files, but not a 
> huge one compared to the project as a whole. (I 
> would buy a printed version but probably wouldn't 
> buy an ebook version, and I don't suppose I'm 
> alone in that.) I don't know where you were 
> thinking of selling the ebook, but some outlets 
> make it fairly easy to sell POD and ebook versions in parallel.
> 
> Either way though you're probably not going to 
> sell a huge number of copies, or make enough 
> money to contribute significantly to the time 
> you'll have spent. But definition of 'viable' for 
> a labour of love like this may be quite a low 
> hurdle: would a thousand or so sales make you feel it was worth the
> effort?
> 
> best,
> 
> Mo 
> 
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