When the struggling writer is pitching a volume to an agent , he or she had better have a book , right ? Well , Finnish SF generator Hannu Rajaniemi sold three of them to classy UK - ground Orion depression Gollacz base on a mere 24 pages . Could you also be 24 pages away from sell your book ? find oneself out how Rajaniemi supervise the effort . It was British agentJohn Jarroldwho sold the title to Simon Spanton of Gollacz . Jarrold represents a spate of European SF writers , and took on the Finnish SF writer in June of this class . Rajaniemi has a PhD in mathematics , and though he ’s been published in anthologies , this first book of three will be his debut novel . Jarrold told SF Scope :
After fifteen years in an editor ’s professorship , I am very aware how unusual it is for an go to be made for a debut novelist on only twenty - four twofold spaced Thomas Nelson Page — particularly at a metre when many publishing executives are more interested in the opinions of their gross revenue and merchandising directors than those of their elderly editors .
In addition to agenting , Jarrold has also run his own press . Jarrold admits it was a gamble , but after scan the first chapter , it sounds like a wad got done later that day ( ! ) . Still , while this chronicle emphasizes the grandness of a prima start , it may be the good formula in the long rill . If you ’re thinking about question an agent or publishing company , this is generally not the way to go , as Robert J. Sawyer lately notedin responding to a fan queryabout whether it was o.k. to take without that completed ms :
Yes , it would be unjust — and it would be a waste . If they like it RIGHT NOW , and are enthusiastic about seeing it mighty NOW , then your best career move is to send the relief as soon as they ask for it . Six week , six months , or six class from now that agent may no longer be take on newfangled clients , whatever market place trend the agent might have perceived your piece of work as fitting into may have passed , and so on . You ca n’t grouse later on , “ But you say you wanted to see it ! ” If you do n’t have a finished manuscript quick to go to market , you and an agent have no stage business to do together , and it is n’t fairish for you to take time out of his or her Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . Also , your boost must be internal to you : you need to want this so badly that you ca n’t hold on committal to writing ; if you cogitate you will be mollycoddle every tone of the room by people patting you on the brain every time you write a few pages , you are sorely misguided .
There ’s some advice for you , Hannu . Hannu Rajaniemi sell book on basis of 24 varlet [ SFScope ]
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