How Many Authors of Books are TD members?

I never wrote a book. I did have the only 2 stories I ever wrote published in a college lit magazine.

Then I promptly quit writing. That shite's hard.

LSUZombie

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Like I said in the writing thread, toughest part outside of completion and revision is drawing up a query and figuring the genre. Its not exactly a John Greene-esque work where i can say it's totally YA

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I do feel your pain. If you don't have a agent, I should clarify a GOOD agent, you'll have less direction and less chance of placing the book. It's easier for me, going with small publishing selective-genre books.

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Like I said in the writing thread, toughest part outside of completion and revision is drawing up a query and figuring the genre. Its not exactly a John Greene-esque work where i can say it's totally YA.

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Interesting. Happy to beta read if you'd like.

I have one that I'm doing a deep edit on that I'd characterize as Jason Bourne meets Steampunk in a whodunnit that introduces the political machinations of the larger world and sets up the next 2 books.

I never wrote a book. But in high school I was HS baseball and softball reporter for the Opelousas Daily World.

Oddly enough, my HS paper didn't let me write for them, so I got a paying gig with the Daily World (right after Gannett took ownership, when they still cared about covering local HS sports). $15 per article in Opelousas, $20 or $25 if I had to travel (don't remember exactly, this was 2001). I think one of my Softball championship game recaps got used by the AP and several state papers ran it.

I've fancied myself a writer since, but haven't actually exercised the muscle.

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I never wrote a book. But in high school I was HS baseball and softball reporter for the Opelousas Daily World. Oddly enough, my HS paper didn't let me write for them, so I got a paying gig with the Daily World (right after Gannett took ownership, when they still cared about covering local HS sports). $15 per article in Opelousas, $20 or $25 if I had to travel (don't remember exactly, this was 2001). I think one of my Softball championship game recaps got used by the AP and several state papers ran it. I've fancied myself a writer since, but haven't actually exercised the muscle.

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Sports writing is very good exercise of those writing muscles. I think quite a few writers started out writing sports or other news articles.

I wrote a ton of articles on our high school soccer team for the local newspaper here. Didn't get paid anything nor did I want to. I did it to bring attention to the team and sport for the future.

It takes a bit of work to do and especially to do it right. A lot of the sports articles you see, even by the professional writers are just not very good.

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I've published a local history book. I don't want to give away too much so my secret identity stays secret. 

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Sounds interesting. Shame you have to keep your identity secret.

Self published?