- DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish1 month
https://bookshop.org/p/books/inferno-larry-niven/7103060
From science fiction team Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
I finished it, but it wasn’t particularly memorable.
[off topic]
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-dante-club-a-novel-matthew-pearl/8f39a0592e17ef17
A much more enjoyable novel where Oliver Wendell Holmes and Longfellow are hunting a murderer while translating The Devine Comedy
- okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish1 month
Why don’t you take a crack at it and share it with the world?
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I wouldn’t know ever how to write a book without sending it to a publisher and they sell it and not pay me. I have no idea how a copyright would work in this situation or show how I was the author.
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It’s not so much hard as it is time consuming.
Traditional publishing, you’d usually start with a book written, find an agent, and let them shop the book around. Once you get some sales under your belt, you can actually sometimes just give your agent a summary of what you want to write, and let them sell the idea. Or just do the same with your publisher and let the agent get their cut. But you have to be a pretty reliable name for that.
Self publishing is easier, but also harder work if you want sales. You just find whatever platform you want to sell on, then put it there. But you’d have to do all the marketing yourself, and that takes a ton of time and effort. That’s why agents and publishers still exist tbh
As far as adapting a public domain work (and that’s what a rewrite of the inferno would be), it’s totally legit. I have a retelling off Cinderella I’ve been fucking with for years.
