A NaNo Excerpt……
A NaNo Excerpt……
Okay, okay...here's a brief excerpt. Really, the rest of it is too gross for a PNN post and the other parts would require too large a chunk to make much sense. Naturally, no editing has been done but I have spell-checked it because I cannot help myself.
The Apartment
One day I received a letter from my brother. Daddy had died and had already been buried and did I even care about my family anymore? It was a short letter meant to sting me and it had done its job well. Still, I could not bear the thought of leaving the apartment overnight. The farm was simply too far away to make it there and back in one day. I would have to leave as soon as I got there and that would be even worse than not going at all. I could tell through my brother’s few angry words that there had been some concern about my well-being. If they didn’t care about me, then they wouldn’t want to see me. Yet no one ever came to visit me in the city. I didn’t feel badly about that, though. I knew that life on the farm meant constant work and I’m sure my absence in that regard was still being felt even though ten years had passed since I left them all to go off to college. The real reason I was glad they did not visit me here was because I no longer trusted what the apartment was capable of doing to people once they entered it. I had seen what it could do on a few occasions; that it led a sweet, gentle man to become a wild sexual beast; that it made a gay man with absolutely no physical attraction to me to do unspeakable things to my body, and I knew what it was doing to me every day. It gave me those strange, happy dreams while I slept and left me almost without a will of my own during my waking hours spent at home. The only thing I had to hold onto my sanity was my job – and even there, the apartment would sometimes creep into my thoughts.
Romancing Your NaNo...
Romancing Your NaNo...
Hey kids and fellow NaNoWriMo-ers, check this out...apparently there really IS someone who really wants to read your NaNoNovel and possibly publish it...
eBook Publisher is 'Ravenous' for Your NaNoWriMo Output
As National Novel Writing Month continues, Ravenous Romance editorial director Lori Perkins emails us that she's willing to have a look at any completed manuscripts that come out of NaNoWriMo. "One of our writers told us that a lot of agents and publishers on Twitter have refused to even look at NaNoWriMo work, so we really want to get the word out," Perkins says. "I know there's some really good work being written right now and I'd love to find and publish it at RR... As a publisher that buys over 300 new short stories a year, I am sure we will find some exciting new voices in erotic romance fiction."
Yes, as Perkins specifies on the Ravenous Romance blog, she's interested in "just about every category of erotic romance, [though] our readers are anxious for more M/M/, paranormal and menage." With the genre boundaries in mind, any NaNoWriMo manuscript (in the vicinity of 50,000 words) submitted to Ravenous in December 2009 is eligible for publication along with a $200 advance.
Our own feelings on the subject are as follows: If an agent or a publisher says they won't look at a NaNoWriMo manuscript, don't tell them about it, at least not when you're submitting. Afterwards, if somebody wants it, then you've got a cute backstory about how you were inspired to write the novel, but for now, let the work stand on its own merits. Which brings up an even more fundamental point: Why would you even think of submitting your NaNoWriMo manuscripts in December? If you're fortunate enough to have a workable first draft on November 30, you take a couple weeks off to refresh yourself, then you start revising!
But most importantly, we just want to remind you: It's National Novel Writing Month, not National Fantasizing About Selling the Novel You Haven't Written Yet Month. Act accordingly.
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