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oh, I've heard of that kinda stuff!

My friend is in those too.

You mustn't SCARE us like that, Jub! I had millions of questions forming in my head about editors, publishers, and such.

But you can imagine our surprise. We heart you.

are editors evil? would they like my book? (it's called Ametris, in the works section) or, well...who are the best? how do you get published without an agent? would they publish a teenager?

O.O

Hey, something you wrote is on store-shelves around the country. It may not have your name printed in bold across it, or be specifically about the segment you wrote, but it's a start!

All authors have to start somewhere. Besides those bastards like J.K. Rowling who can make masterpieces while loading up on some coffee. (I'm not insulting her; Just extremely jealous of her talent.)

And does anyone know if publishers accept stories in the form of plays, theatrical scripts, etc? You know, if I ever decided to make a Wingless novel in that form... just curious.

wooooooowww....

But aren't Christopher Paolini's parents publishers?

So does he count?

(Gods, I envy you. Does he have an AIM or something? O.o)

And do publisher people let you KNOW if they don't like your book? Cause I sent one off once...just one copy...expensive mail to New York, and it never ever came back...this was six months ago, btw. Assholes, not giving it back crying (This was the same company that published Harry Potter, btw)

Oh well, that story was crap anyway.

Um, are many people loking for a sort of fantasy novel, kind of sci-fi-ish because of really complex theories and stuff like space/time travel? Cause....that's what mine is, basically.

And it's in the sort of Lord of the Rings, Eragon style. I am discouraged that Christopher Paolini had publishers for parents...ooooooooo......my parents can't edit a newspaper comic. (I mean that in the nciest way possible.)

And Hawk...JK Rowling is not the best. Dan Brown kicks her a** by far, as far as style goes. For popularity and billionaire stats, though, she takes the cake. First woman billionaire, you know that?

But she's over with. When the last movie comes out, Harry potter will be forgotten forever.

I'm going to save all the books in a box somewhere and give them to my kids/neices/the homeless.

They started it just to publish that book? No, I'm pretty sure they'd already had the company going... or at least, that's what I've heard multiple times. Meh, I don't know.

And ya, Kirby, I was just talking about her billionaire status. Concerning style, that's sort of more of an opinion thing. But how could you say she's already over with!? We still have one more book, and then the next series she'll write (Don't quote me on this, but I thought I heard that she might do a new series after Harry based in the same world. Just with different characters.)

Only one more book? I heard Rowling was gonna write two more so that they weren't uber huge and hard to read without killing the spines...?