Read most
any published piece of fiction and it's been revised and edited like mad.
Not exact matches
With literary
fiction, there's an expectation
of publishing short
pieces in journals etc before a first book contract.
For some
of you, getting the word out while marketing your
fiction book is a
piece of cake compared to the writing and
publishing that comes before!
Very few purely literary novels sell — and most
of those are by authors who have
published scores
of exquisitely crafted short
fiction pieces in prestigious journals and / or have endowed chairs at major universities.
Anyone can
publish what they have written on Wattpad a romantic story, a
piece of science
fiction, poetry, an essay or a novel, and interact with readers and fans.
Last year, Fifty Shades
of Grey became the first ebook to sell 1 million copies in history, and was actually originally a
piece of Twilight fan
fiction that was
published on the Internet.
He has
published two novels, Riding the Brand and Virtually Dead, as well as several
pieces of short
fiction and two plays.
The potential for a renewed interest in short stories — stand - alone
fiction that will no longer have to wait to be anthologized or
published as a collection — as well as timely
pieces of non-
fiction on current world events means that readers without the time or inclination to tackle longer
pieces of literature can now fill their reading needs with shorter and less pricey ebooks.
Mainstream publishers are also taking advantage
of these new channels, notably Tor.com, the science -
fiction imprint
of MacMillan, and Penguin eSpecials, both
publishing low - cost short - form works by their existing authors in the form
of excerpts, reprints and original new
pieces.
Having recently been interviewed by author Jay Lemming on the subject
of literary
fiction (link to interview follows this post), I rashly agreed to write a longer
piece on how I came to find the indie publisher who
published my work
of literary
fiction (and subsequent novel), Vagabondage Press.
As Le Veque points out in the NYT
piece, not everyone is in the same category as she is when it comes to adapting to this landscape: since she has been writing
fiction for more than 20 years without selling a single book through the traditional
publishing industry, she has a backlog
of material she can quickly produce and / or cut the price on.
I am an aspiring author and have not had anything
published, as yet, although there are a number
of my short stories and flash
fiction pieces on the web.
«If you receive a certain modest advance for a
piece of fiction, which is what most writers get these days, but if you write a book in six weeks and it's
published two months after you start it, that makes more economic sense than three years,» Pollack said.
Originally
published in 2011, this second edition contains 9 original stories and 4 flash
fiction pieces released from my story vault, all written in the tradition
of R. A. Lafferty, Robert Sheckley and Douglas Adams.
So this week my little story, the first
piece of crime
fiction I ever wrote, was
published alongside the work
of some
of my idols, including Lee, Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly, Karin Slaughter, and Zoe Sharp.
It is one very simple way to tell if the numbers you get in your reports from your publishers are accurate — or at least not as big a
piece of fiction as the book they
published for you.
A prime example
of this is #fridayflash, where every Friday authors
publish a Flash
Fiction Piece, and tweet about it using the #fridayflash hashtag.
And I realized I had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists
of Wool's generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition
of four: 93 Drawings
of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach paintings 1986 First pattern paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short
piece of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show
of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1989 Starts taking photographs 1989
Publishes Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Ma
Publishes Black Book an oversized collection
of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall
of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam
publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Ma
publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies
of photographs
of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition
of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993
Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Ma
Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum
of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective
of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum
of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum
of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging
of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos
of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas
Janairo also had two
pieces published recently: A nine - part poem titled «Instructions for Astronauts» in the India - based Mithila Review; and the short story «The Road to Burabod» in Lontar: The Journal
of Southeast Asian Speculative
Fiction, based in Singapore.