Date Posted:11:17:15 02/01/10 Mon Author:susiej Subject: >>>> In reply to:
Esther
's message, "I always want more. >>>" on 12:43:13 01/30/10 Sat
The original ms in full was over 300k. It's really a trilogy. But when i got the idea, I just sat and wrote until the tale was done. Not thinking publication. Then after a reader who I'd not even asked to read it (a teen who picked it up off her mom's bedside table) said "wow, this is way better than Twilight" I thought, hmm, maybe I'll try.
I think having the series done, absolutely complete in 3 is a plus. How many of us are sick to death of waiting for Martin's next book? I've actually lost interest in the story he rambled so much in that last 800 pages. Ditto for Christopher Paolini's trilogy that's turned into a soon to be released quad. However, HE can do what he wants. As an unpubbed nobody, I have to sell one book first. And I'm told my first book is too long at 110. It's really made me ponder "the system" of gatekeepers. I've heard agents say writers like DG would never make it today. What might we be missing???
But as I said, in my interview. Whether its ever pubbed or not, I sure had fun writing it.
susiej