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He'd like to stick the novel online and charge some kind of minimal fee for people to read the thing.
Why does your pal feel that way?
Is he an anti-capitalist, or is he simply unprepared to face up to the possibility that his book is a total waste of time, which no conventional publisher would be prepared to take on board, even notionally?
To be clear about this, Grant; no one in their right mind is going to lay down even the price of a coke for the witterings of an unproved artist, on-line.
Tell your friend he has to finish his book, and then take his lumps, like everyone else has to.
I don't mean to sound like Alf Garnett, but, unless one delivers at least twenty thousand words, plus detailed synopsis, and charming covering letter, before one's been asked to, then one's literary career is definitely bound to fail, as opposed to almost certainly. |
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