The Conqueror's Shadow, now available!

[RangerWickett]

I'll be happy to dissuade them with a depressing look at my bank account.

You're not doing much to bolster my enthusiasm, Ari. I've spent the whole day tracking down agents to whom to pitch a query for my novel. Reading stuff like "Queries read this week: 178. Number of partials requested: 1" is already daunting, and now you say even if I get published, I won't be able to laugh in my boss's face and quit my day job? Fie.

Still, even if it isn't good money, and the odds are stacked against you, and the economy's so tanked that publishers aren't buying as many books, it's still worth it, right?

Right?



I see on your agent's site that you've also got a YA book coming out? What's it about?

 

[Mouseferatu]

Still, even if it isn't good money, and the odds are stacked against you, and the economy's so tanked that publishers aren't buying as many books, it's still worth it, right?

Ask me again when I've actually had time for my fiction to either build a fan base or fail miserably, and I'll let you know.

I see on your agent's site that you've also got a YA book coming out? What's it about?

Actually, Household Gods is the YA book in question. I actually hadn't set out to write a YA book; it's just that my agent took one look at the book and said, "This is basically already a YA novel. Why not do a few tiny rewrites and make it such officially?" And since it was too short for most publishers to print as a "standard" fantasy, it seemed the way to go. (I do believe, despite being targeted as YA, that my adult readers should enjoy it just as much.)

It's a fantasy novel, set in an urban Renaissance setting rather than the more traditional medieval one. And it has a main character who, although she's a thief, is more or less an actual good guy--which will come as an enormous shock to people who have read all my other novels that will have been published by then, and will understandably assume that I'm only capable of writing about bastards.

 

[Mouseferatu]

So if you're at all interested in seeing it, the cover for The Warlord's Legacy (sequel to TCS) is now up on Amazon.

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553807773/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1BPFXQAAWK3WRM2XX834&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846]Amazon.com: The Warlord's Legacy (9780553807776): Ari Marmell: Books[/ame]

 

[Crothian]

I have to wait till January? So not fair!

 

[Klaus]

I have to wait till January? So not fair!

Well, it's not like A Song of Ice & Fire. Then you'd have to wait until January, 2016!

 

[john112364]

Nothing like a babe in leathers to sell a book!

 

[Mouseferatu]

Nothing like a babe in leathers to sell a book!

Yeah, I was amused. "You know, that's basically the way I described her, but the artist, uh, emphasized different aspects of the character than I did."

 

[Klaus]

Yeah, I was amused. "You know, that's basically the way I described her, but the artist, uh, emphasized different aspects of the character than I did."

So you're saying she had more... er... top shelf stuff?

 

[Mouseferatu]

So you're saying she had more... er... top shelf stuff?

Not entirely what I meant, no.

Speaking of art, Claudio... *cough, cough*

 

[PaulKemp]

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