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Donald Harry Roberts left a comment for Edward D. Isenberg"I was hoping to catch up on some news from NM since it is one of my favourite states...I spent some time I ALb and Santa Fe and a place called Cedro."
Edward D. Isenberg left a comment for Donald Harry Roberts"I received your request for me to "be your friend" on Authors. I wonder why you picked me, if there is something similar about our genre or something else that explains your request.
Ed"
Edward D. Isenberg replied to Toby Whaymand's discussion 'How many words should a standard run of a mill science fiction book be???' in the group Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction Writers"Here's my notes on the meeting where the $3k course was discussed. It didn't sound like a scam. You can go to the website and check it out for yourself.
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Edward D. Isenberg replied to Toby Whaymand's discussion 'How many words should a standard run of a mill science fiction book be???' in the group Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction Writers"I have learned through Southwest Authors that self-marketing is absolutely required. There is a $3,000 course on it but I'll never be able to afford that; hopefully the same person that runs the course will have a book I can buy instead. They…"
Kay left a comment for Edward D. Isenberg"Welcome to Authors.com Edward! Lovely to meet you. It’s great to have you here."
Edward D. Isenberg replied to scribbler's discussion 'Guidelines to the Average Manuscript Length' in the group Writing Resources"Try the vigorous and on-going discussion on Authors.com:
"How many words should a standard run of a mill science fiction book be???" at the…"
Edward D. Isenberg replied to Toby Whaymand's discussion 'How many words should a standard run of a mill science fiction book be???' in the group Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction Writers"Is this your first book? If not, how successful would you (or more importantly, your publisher) consider your previous books to be? I am curious about how you managed to sell (or at least get them to look at) such a long MS. Also, what genre is the…"
Edward D. Isenberg replied to Toby Whaymand's discussion 'How many words should a standard run of a mill science fiction book be???' in the group Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction Writers"Like Anna, I also agree, in principle. I believe part of the process I described was writing your novel to be whatever length it needs to be as long as it hits a wide range.
The lower end of the range is when a novel is under about 60,000…"
scribbler left a comment for Edward D. Isenberg"Nice to meet you Edward. Welcome aboard. :) I hope you enjoy being amongst us and I’ll look forward to hearing more about your writing."
Edward D. Isenberg replied to Toby Whaymand's discussion 'How many words should a standard run of a mill science fiction book be???' in the group Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction Writers"No one wants Courier. It is used solely as a fixed-space font for use in getting the number of words per line.
Also, I should have mentioned the names of some useful books. Just got to find them. About to get cataract surgery...
Ed
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Edward D. Isenberg replied to Toby Whaymand's discussion 'How many words should a standard run of a mill science fiction book be???' in the group Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction Writers"You are right that agents and publishers want word counts, not page counts. If you reexamine what I wrote, you will see that the final figure arrived at represents words. Page counts help you get to your word total, but are not otherwise…"
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- At 1:07am on February 11, 2011, scribbler said…
- Nice to meet you Edward. Welcome aboard. :) I hope you enjoy being amongst us and I’ll look forward to hearing more about your writing.
- At 1:51am on February 14, 2011, Kay said…
- Welcome to Authors.com Edward! Lovely to meet you. It’s great to have you here.
- At 12:27am on February 24, 2011, Donald Harry Roberts said…
- I was hoping to catch up on some news from NM since it is one of my favourite states...I spent some time I ALb and Santa Fe and a place called Cedro.
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