/lit/ - Literature

File: 33 KB, 372x303, bukowski.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Sun Mar 17 21:59:25 2013 No.3572367 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit/
Young writter here, about to publish my first book. The thing is, I have 3 contract offers from 3 different editors, and I'd like to know if any of you guys here is a published author and if you guys have any tips or can tell me about mistakes you made that you could help me prevent.
Would like to know order of importance on such things has:
Contract salary
Number of copies printed
Number of countries avaliable in
Comission on sale.

TL;DR
Need help chosing editor contract for 1st book.

btw, i'm european and english is not my native language.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:06:25 2013 No.3572413 >>3572367 bumping

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:25:25 2013 No.3572502 >>3572367 I doubt anyone else here has been published. Can we have a paragraph?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:33:25 2013 No.3572533 >>3572502 Well it's in Portuguese. Do you still want to read it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:34:25 2013 No.3572537 >>3572533 Stick it in Google Translate, or I'll do it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:38:26 2013 No.3572561 >young writer here >bukowski stopped reading there. just dropping in to shitpost.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:40:26 2013 No.3572574 >>3572533 How tough is the market in a small country ? What genre do you write ? How long is your book ? Just curiosity.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:44:25 2013 No.3572588 >>3572537 en-cantodapoesia on blogspot dot com >blog has translate button. >>3572561 what's wrong with bukowski?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:45:26 2013 No.3572595 >>3572574 bit tough. writting doesn't pay bills at all. It's mainly poetry

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:46:26 2013 No.3572597 >>3572588 >what's wrong with bukowski He's intolerably weak as a writer.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:47:26 2013 No.3572600 But will it compete with Antunes?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:48:25 2013 No.3572602 >>3572597 Have you ever read "Love is a Dog from Hell"? What writter do you suggest? I'm not much of an expert in american literature.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:49:25 2013 No.3572605 >>3572600 what?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:50:25 2013 No.3572610 >>3572602 Yes, I read most of his stuff in my teens. My favorite American authors are Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Melville and Carson McCullers

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:52:25 2013 No.3572618 >>3572610 will try and get a hold of some of their work then. But Bukowski has incredible work and I can't see why you would think otherwise. opinions.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:56:25 2013 No.3572633 >>3572618 What exactly is incredible about it? It's poor sentiment and grit.

Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:58:25 2013 No.3572639

>>3572605
OP speaks Portugese and if there was one insanely gifted and important writer speaking that language it would be Antunes. I'm sure there are others but he's "In the Hall of Fame Level." And if this is OP yeah, fine, I get it. A.L.A. never wrote poetry so you can't compare them, but I just meant if you would be on the same level of density, style, difficulty, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 22:59:25 2013 No.3572644 >>3572633 It's the natural way he puts his emotions in words and the abstract, yet, direct way of showing them.

Anonymous Sun Mar 17 23:02:25 2013 No.3572654

>>3572644
For people like the person responding to you up to this point and myself I guess it depends on how sentimental you are. I read Ham on Rye and hated it. I read some of his poems and short stories and hated them. If I'm going to read a transgressive minimalist I'd rather read Bret Easton Ellis. At least he doesn't drop sentences that sound like an old man giving out advice to young people.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 23:04:26 2013 No.3572662 >>3572644 Reading like a novice writer isn't interesting more than any other quirk. >>3572654 Please don't get OP reading Bret Easton Ellis.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 23:06:25 2013 No.3572669 >>3572662 shrugs all around. I don't give two fucks what OP reads. It's just that I'd much rather read something like Less Than Zero when we talk about transgressive coming of age novels.

Anonymous Sun Mar 17 23:07:25 2013 No.3572675

>>3572669
>gay people can't play straight people despite the existence of Ian McKellen and Rock Hudson
>I'm a fag
>Twitter dramaTwitter dramaTwitter dramaTwitter dramaTwitter dramaTwitter dramaTwitter dramaTwitter dramaTwitter dramaTwitter dramaTwitter dramaTwitter dramaTwitter drama

And then he died.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 23:08:25 2013 No.3572676 >>3572639 Saramago who won the nobel prize is more of a hall of famer in my opinion. I don't like to read Antunes. I like some stuff but can never read a full book or read for too long. The same is for Saramago.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 23:10:25 2013 No.3572683 >>3572669 I'd rather read anything by Bukowski than schlep through that waste of a novel again.

Anonymous Sun Mar 17 23:11:25 2013 No.3572688

>>3572675
I only stated that I thought he wrote one novel that was better than Bukowski...I'm not sure what all the ad hominems are for here. I don't like the guy either but LTZ does a better job of representing the petty nihilism and exhaustion present in America during the 80s. I'm not sure why you're so fond of putting words in my mou-Oh right, I'm on /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 23:12:25 2013 No.3572696 >>3572688 Please learn what ad hominem means.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 23:12:25 2013 No.3572697 >>3572688 I wasn't really attacking you; I was just expressing my disdain BEE.

Anonymous Sun Mar 17 23:14:26 2013 No.3572706

>>3572676
Got it. So you prefer a more minimalistic style. I think Cormac McCarthy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai do a better job in the style but then again I'm very partial to the longer sentences and Proust influence (in the case of Antunes, not the other two although I wouldn't be surprised if LK were influenced by P.).

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 23:15:25 2013 No.3572712 >>3572696 >>3572697 You made a personal assault on the writer rather than the work. I believe that still qualifies even if you're talking to someone else.

Anonymous Sun Mar 17 23:18:25 2013 No.3572721

>>3572706
Exactly. Minimalistic. Even though it sounds a bit dumb when I say this, I will say it anyways. The book itself is to those who don't like to read. Sounds stupid right? But thinking that people should read, but some don't like to, why not make it easier? make them like it. In small doses. I'm trying to start a discussion on this topic though, this is my idea and it's well fundamented in my head, so.. Anyways, needless to say, my book is very minimalistic.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 23:19:25 2013 No.3572723 >>3572721 forgot to thant you for the recomendations. will search for their works.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 00:15:25 2013 No.3572903 >>3572367 >>3572602 not trying to make fun of you OP but it's writer and not writter...

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 18 05:44:25 2013 No.3573413 >>3572903 As I said, english is not my native. But thanks for the correction

>>	Charles Crumb !hxGgtPv0f. Mon Mar 18 07:36:25 2013 No.3573484 >>3572588 My Portuguese is not perfect, but I enjoyed the read. So your books is a poetry book or something else?

Advanced search
Text to find
Subject [?]Search by post subject. Leave empty for any.
Username [?]Search for user name. Leave empty for any user name.
Tripcode [?]Search for tripcode. Leave empty for any.
Email [?]Search by email. Leave empty for any.
Filename [?]Search by image filename. Leave empty for any.
From Date [?]Enter what date to start searching from. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
To Date [?]Enter what date to start searching until. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
Image hash
Search in	All Posts OPs Only
Deleted posts	Show all posts Show only deleted posts Only show non-deleted posts
Internal posts	Show all posts Show only internal posts Show only archived posts
Order	New posts first Old posts first
Capcode	All Posts Only by Users Only by Mods Only by Admins Only by Developers
Results	Posts Threads
Action	[ Simple ]