LittleStar
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Hi everyone,
I have a question about publishing shorter fiction, not short stories, but what I would call a novella coming in at around 20k words.
It is aimed at younger audiences, though there are more adult themes and elements, which I guess would fit it into a YA category perhaps.
I have sent it out to a few different publishers, with no success yet (I'm fairly sure my cover letter and synopsis is woeful though, so that doesn't help).
But, my question is, is this the route I should be going? Or does the fac that it isn't a traditonal novel length piece of fiction mean that I should be looking for other ways to publish? Should I be trying to send out to an agent first? Should I try market it as a short? Or do people just plain not want novella length pieces.
(I can't back track to add extras higher up on my iPad for some reason, so this is going down here) Another slight possible for not having luck yet, is that I haven't really had any betas for it... Whoops. Just my partner and a few booky family really. But my partner is quite a tough judge when it comes to these things and they maintain they like it despite telling me some of my other work is bad.
Anyway, just looking for advice on how to proceed, and as always any help is appreciated.
Thanks
I have a question about publishing shorter fiction, not short stories, but what I would call a novella coming in at around 20k words.
It is aimed at younger audiences, though there are more adult themes and elements, which I guess would fit it into a YA category perhaps.
I have sent it out to a few different publishers, with no success yet (I'm fairly sure my cover letter and synopsis is woeful though, so that doesn't help).
But, my question is, is this the route I should be going? Or does the fac that it isn't a traditonal novel length piece of fiction mean that I should be looking for other ways to publish? Should I be trying to send out to an agent first? Should I try market it as a short? Or do people just plain not want novella length pieces.
(I can't back track to add extras higher up on my iPad for some reason, so this is going down here) Another slight possible for not having luck yet, is that I haven't really had any betas for it... Whoops. Just my partner and a few booky family really. But my partner is quite a tough judge when it comes to these things and they maintain they like it despite telling me some of my other work is bad.
Anyway, just looking for advice on how to proceed, and as always any help is appreciated.
Thanks