Wow fantastic Annelue.
I have no idea about publishing but I'd certainly take my time.
I'm sure there will be plenty of advice forthcoming.

Big hearty congrats, and remember you are bound to have more offers so easy does it.

D A Reynolds

It looks like your decision to publish a first free chapter worked out well. Take your time and if they offer a contract make sure you read it thoroughly... contracts can be negotiated. Great news!

Uh, shit! I have typos everywhere, even in my name.
Its not Annelue but Annelie
(god, I'm a bucket)

aekronberg wrote:

Uh, shit! I have typos everywhere, even in my name.
Its not Annelue but Annelie
(god, I'm a bucket)

Hah! That's so funny. I thought, damn, I've had her name wrong all this time and she's been too polite to tell me.

Lucy Rice wrote:

aekronberg wrote:

Uh, shit! I have typos everywhere, even in my name.
Its not Annelue but Annelie
(god, I'm a bucket)

Hah! That's so funny. I thought, damn, I've had her name wrong all this time and she's been too polite to tell me.

Lol I'd been spelling it wrong too.

David

What great news, Annelie!  (Or should that be Annalou...?)

You ROCK, girlfriend!   I will light candles & say prayers for you with that publishing contract!   I know you'll do your homework on the publisher, for which I pat you proudly on the back.

So, um, just how close are to you finishing the MS, hmmmmm????

Hugs
Bonnie

Hi Bonnie and CE,
thanks so much! 
@Bonnie - MS is completed, I'm rewriting and rewirting and.... (also re-posting)
you know the deal :-)
I think my schedule is the following: Finish final version until end of September (bruahaha, laughing at myself now), get one or two beta readers (any voluneers?), then get a line editor.
I wanted the ebook to be out in December (christmas sales, yer know).
Lets see. Most improtant thing is that I'm happy with the final version. The rest is secondary.
Good night
Annelie

Hey, Annelie -

Funny, I had the exact same time table.   Who knows?   God might decide to take direct intervention & zap me with the self-discipline to get up that extra hour early (5 instead of 6) and actually SEE WHAT I NEED TO CHANGE in time to meet it.  Not betting on it any more!

YOU will make it, though.   I have total faith in you.   I'd volunteer as a beta reader, but I'm better on development (plot & scene structure, character arc, etc) than over all reader.   If you think I could help along those lines just sing out.

Hugs
Bonnie

I just saw this! Congrats, Annelie!!! VERY cool! I checked out their website, and I second Lucy. Very neat and professional. Covers likewise look professional and are visually appealing. (Probably terrible of me, lol, but I do judge publishers based on the cover art they assign their books.) I know that you know to do your research... try googling them, contacting current authors and asking them about their experiences with the company overall, order a book or two and see if they look as professional and well put-together in your hands as they do on the website. The contract, if they do offer one, is usually what makes or breaks the decision to go with a publisher, so read it carefully. But I know you know all this already. I'm just reiterating. Most importantly: DON'T rush the MS out of eagerness to see it in print! Take your time. If the publisher is genuinely interested (which I have no doubt they will be), they'll still want it in 6 months, a year, whatever. At least this has been my experience.

Best of luck!

Hey, Annelie?
SOMEWHERE in one of these forums I swear I saw you musing on site members forming a core group of e-marketers for each others' work.  You read my mind, darlin'!   Sheesh, maybe I've still got some brain cells firing after all!

This is a topic I could jabber about for ages, but what do you think?  Wanna brainstorm more specifics?

OH!  BTW - many of the members of my local writers group are in the Industry here in L.A. (Hollywood) so I get to pick up on what's hot on the pitches these days.   One of our writer / actors who has a couple of scripts being shopped (which means he's already agented & has a sales track record) says indie & cable producers are treating graphic novels as the inside track - and one of the subjects getting the treatment is Sherlock Holmes.   He's hot right now.   You might want to consider pursuing that particular line.

Hopes!

Bonnie

Uh! Bonnie!
I forgot to mention: I know Holmes is hot in the film industry so I posted the first chapter on stage32 as well.

Hi Max,
I'm really lazy when it comes to Stage32.
On the publisher. Me want  not (I know, I'm an arrogant ass)
I saw the trailers to the Holmes movies (Downey Jr) and found them to be quite dumb.
The BBC Sherlock is brilliant! Unfortunately it contaminates my brain. There can only be one Sherlock (Conan Doyle's) and mine is but a blip. But that's OK, I'm just beginning with that writer stuff. And who knows? Maybe after I poured out my Anna & Sherlock novels I'm all emptied authoir-wise?
But I'll check on the Robert Wilson story!
Was reading Laurie King's Sherlock stories, but don't really like them much.
Hum...
I'm so picky...

Cheers
Annelie