Fantasy has a really decent core of readers, Gud, just like any other genre fiction. I'm not sure how easy it is to get published in fantasy, because we didn't do fantasy where I used to work, but there are certainly a fair number of fantasy novels out each month.
The best place to look for information like that is actually books themselves -- who publishes fantasy, first, and then you go to their web sites and see how many new books they have coming out each month, who's doing straight fantasy, who does darker urban fantasy, that kind of thing.
The best place to look for information like that is actually books themselves -- who publishes fantasy, first, and then you go to their web sites and see how many new books they have coming out each month, who's doing straight fantasy, who does darker urban fantasy, that kind of thing.
Thanks for the advice. I'll probably be doing that after writing 9 more chapters, writing a good number of revisions I already know about, and fixing an obscene number of punctuation errors.
I'm now a good ways into Chapter 19 and up to 107k words. I just might be able to finish Chapter 19 tonight. My outline says just 9 chapters after that.
Chapter 19 is done. It will need a bit of work, but not too bad. I'm now about a page into Chapter 20. Moving along.
Now about 1700 words into chapter 20. After revising my high level outline, it looks like it will be 28 chapters and a brief epilogue.
I know "ongepatshket" is a very obscure Yiddish expression. But is it clear enough from context to be OK in the following context?
We have ongepatshket our forests to the point we must clear brush from some of them or they will act as tinder, converting small fires to big ones."
Or is use of obscure dialect too distracting even if people can figure it out from context?
Maybe if it was easier to pronounce, typo. I stumble over it so badly, I lose all sense of the sentence afterward.
I know the expression, but if I didn't, I think I would find that usage off-putting. Just having to sound it out in my head was a distraction.
OK, that makes sense. Out it goes. (Really, when I wonder "should I keep this", I should remember that if I have to ask the answer is almost certainly "No".)
