/lit/ - Literature

Let's have a publishing thread /lit/.

I'm an aspiring latin-american author, and I'm planning on sending a local editorial a collection of about 13 short stories I wrote during the past year. The text has been edited several times with the help of my college professor, a published author himself.

I have had several articles published in local magazines and some webzines, and I work for the local newspaper, so I have that backing up the quality of my writing.

Do you have any advices on how to get my book published? How should I present the draft? Is the fact that I'm young a factor in how seriously they'll take my work?

Thanks in advance.

>>4730817
>come to the realization that all morality, based on some point on an assumption of value, is equally valid
More like any kind of morality is a baseless excuse. There is no need for morality to do right.

ITT: Lines/Paragraphs form books that changed your life.

“It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.
To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”

Existentialism. Who nailed it best, without being a faggot?

Answer = Camus. Discuss.

Many editors. No writers.

Right. Now I appreciate zine problems.

All right, you e/lit/ist bastards, I need some help.

I finally have the chance to pitch an idea for some cash, only problem is, it's got to be a graphic novel idea.

Now, I know what you're thinking, /co/ is <-- that way, but I need your help more than theirs.

So, it's stories from after the apocalypse, I know, cliche, but it's what sells right now. I've already got one concerning a priest and it draws heavily on the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.

NOW, this is where you guys come in. What other classic stories would you like to see post-apocalyptic retellings of? If you don't want to see them retold in a post-apocalyptic setting, suggest stories that would be interesting to most comic-reading mouth-breathers.

All help is appreciated. I lurk here from time to time, and if anyone's interested, am currently reading Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Thanks, /lit/.