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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carnifex" data-source="post: 1628951" data-attributes="member: 227">I'm another person whose first work was published recently (Steam & Steel: A Guide to Fantasy Steamworks published by En Publishing). I'll summarise my experiences here:I was originally asked by Horacio to write something steampunk-y for the now non-existant Horade Publishing company, because he was a big fan of my story hour, and my homebrew features some steam tech and steampunk elements. I was originally intending to write a little mini-setting, like a sample town or city, with a few minor rules for steamtech equipment attached. It then ballooned into a proper steamtech sourcebook, which I naively originally thought would only be 32-64 pages. It ended up 128 pages long <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Anyway. I was well into writing Steam & Steel for Horade, when Horade went down. Basically Horacio went out of contact for a while, and I was left with this nearly-completed manuscript for a sourcebook and no one to publish it. I waited quite a while in case Horacio resurfaced as it was him who had encouraged me to write it in the first place, but in the end I decided to see if EN Publishing would be interested. Contacted Hellhound, showed him the manuscript, and he was indeed interested <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Sadly problems with the art delayed it for months, but it was a gerat relief to see it finally published this month!I'm now working on several new projects. Due to my work on Steam & Steel, I was 'headhunted' by Malladin's Gate Press to help with one of their lines. I also sent a proposal to Enkwell Press for another sourcebook which they accepted, and also sent in some stuff to open calls as well.I have no idea how typical my experience is of getting published; what I do now know is the terrifying experience of waiting for the first reviews of your product to turn up, and now the elation of those reviews being good ones <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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