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[dejavroom]

I'm gonna "publish" my Lovecraft pastiche on Facebook on weekly installments. By now I'm completely out of the idea of ever getting anything published, so at least I might watch some ripples in the (almost non-existent) Brazilian Lovecraft fan community.

I was also considering... translating it to English, maybe test the international waters? Only that, just thinking about the amount of work makes my eyes water already...

[littlefallsmets]

If people that I trust say they think it is worth trying to get traditionally published, I will try that. I know a few people who've managed to find traditional publishing opportunities and maybe they can help me, I dunno.

I would very goddamned much love to have someone pay me a little money and have it put out on actual goddamned paper without ME paying for it.

If trusted people like wombat and some other friends from other spheres in my life tell me it is unsalable, I'll probably throw it up on Amazon and make a couple hundred bucks, yes.

But I don't know. I believe in the idea and I have friends whose opinions I trust.

I am keeping my options open, that's the end game.

[wombat]

Here's the mistake I think a lot of people make. There are different reasons things are unsaleable. Some of those are stupid reasons, like that agents and editors are sheep who follow fashions and it's a book that doesn't fit the current fashion. And some of those are good reasons, like it's a good idea but it needs to go through five more drafts before it's executed in a way that other people are going to want to read.

When you've written something that is unsaleable for the former reason, self-publishing makes sense to me. But most of the self-published books I have read seem to fall into the second category.

[pmcd9]

I just want to double check, the Yeti is not Axl Rose, right?

[littlefallsmets]

No sir. The Yeti is the last surviving sasqautch who has moved to L.A. to be less lonely, at least being able to talk to something even if it's just humans, hiding in plain sight in the guise as a busker who dresses as The Bigfoot on Hollywood Boulevard and sells pictures of himself with tourists to them. Which is a real thing in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, there are people who dress as celebrities and movie characters and do just that.

Except he is exactly what he says he is and almost no one believes him. Because in Hollywood, it's just assumed you're pretending.

I think I do namecheck Axl Rose once or twice as a quintessentially Los Angeles kind of weirdo somewhere in the manuscript but no.

Only very peripherally.

[Choop]

and his halloween costume is chewbacca (that's my favorite part)

[pmcd9]

The Yeti is the last surviving sasqautch who has moved to L.A. to be less lonely, at least being able to talk to something even if it's just humans, hiding in plain sight in the guise as a busker who dresses as The Bigfoot on Hollywood Boulevard and sells pictures of himself with tourists to them. Which is a real thing in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, there are people who dress as celebrities and movie characters and do just that.

I saw a show about that.

[littlefallsmets]

I actually mention the real historical incident where Superman breaks up a mugging.

And, yes, absolutely, Frank Yetti dresses as Chewbacca for Halloween and science-fiction premieres.

He does a pretty good Chewbacca growl but not as spot-on as you'd assume from a bigfoot.

[wombat]

Split so I don't have to waste any more time trying to figure out what the hell thread we were talking about this in.

[littlefallsmets]

Nice! Sorry to have taken over so much of that thread...

[Doc]

I like the title.

To join in though, If I was trying to sell it to a publisher type I bet I'd want to pitch it as an American Gods style Gaiman-esque piece of magic realism that the kids today like so much. Which would probably require a vaguer or at least shorter title. Maybe just 'The Thirty Mile Zone' though I'm sure that's been used before.

Edit: Oooh this whole thing where Mets is just telling us about his stuff and asking one person specifically for advice and we all piled on reminded me of this.

Edit edit: Of course the best title is 'LFM and the Yeti'

[littlefallsmets]

Oh yeah, everyone tells me "American Gods" should be a part of the pitch were I to pitch it to an agent.

"Cat's Cradle" meets "Magnolia" is kinda my short-hand. I... don't know if that would actually sell anyone, though.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Edit: Oooh this whole thing where Mets is just telling us about his stuff and asking one person specifically for advice and we all piled on reminded me of this.

We're all invested in this thing waiting for a pay off that never seems to come. Who does he think he is asking just one of us for a comment?

[littlefallsmets]

It's like sex, A-CAP. You can't start throwing it around at everyone until you're sure you're great at it.

Until then, you stick to just those you know will be firm but gentle.

[pmcd9]

I've been doing sex for over 30 years and I still ain't worth a shit at it, but I ain't gonna let that hold me back.