Help me find a publisher, please!

[peacelovemusic]

Okay, I am almost desperate. I have written a book that I think is awesome.I have gone to several publishers, but they all claim I'm too young and won't take me seriously. They won't even read my manuscript. Do you know anybody that would at least read it and consider me? I really need your help.

[mattybobviously]

Okay, I am almost desperate. I have written a book that I think is awesome.I have gone to several publishers, but they all claim I'm too young and won't take me seriously. They won't even read my manuscript. Do you know anybody that would at least read it and consider me? I really need your help.
Send me a copy of the manuscript, and I might be able to help you. I ended up pulling out of a deal last fall because I ended up getting overwhelmed and didn't want to make certain changes, but I can certainly give you some advice, and perhaps offer some insight as to what might need work in the book.

[0starter0]

Well chances are, being 16 your book isn't very deep. At 16 the average kid hasn't even started mastering English and/or Writing and Literature.

[OveriseFan]

Well chances are, being 16 your book isn't very deep. At 16 the average kid hasn't even started mastering English and/or Writing and Literature.

Word. Post the first two pages and the last two pages. A publisher will only read the beginning and the end, and then if they like that they'll read the full thing.

Send me a copy of the manuscript, and I might be able to help you. I ended up pulling out of a deal last fall because I ended up getting overwhelmed and didn't want to make certain changes, but I can certainly give you some advice, and perhaps offer some insight as to what might need work in the book.

I'm calling bullshit. You pulled out of a deal, at the age of 14?

right.

Okay, I am almost desperate. I have written a book that I think is awesome.I have gone to several publishers, but they all claim I'm too young and won't take me seriously. They won't even read my manuscript. Do you know anybody that would at least read it and consider me? I really need your help.

No.

[mattybobviously]

I'm calling bullshit. You pulled out of a deal, at the age of 14?

right.



No.

My English teacher last year has been trying to be published forever, and I had a great relationship with him. He had an agent, and one day I got to meet the guy. I told him I had been writing a piece, and the guy said he'd take a look at it, and tell me some things that people look for. He ended up really being into it, and so I ended up sending him the first half of it. He had found a publisher that was printing a lot of literature by students, and things were working well. I ended up having serious writer's block, and hated how I had begun to end it. While my parents had been supportive before, and had helped me with the costs of it, I pretty much realized that it wasn't going to happen.

In the end, I should've never put something like that into a position when I wasn't finished. I'm juggling three ideas currently, and hoping that I'll be able to craft one of them into something worth buying. Writing stories is the only thing I've ever really been interested in doing with my life, and have been writing in some form or another for as long as I can remember.

[peacelovemusic]

Well chances are, being 16 your book isn't very deep. At 16 the average kid hasn't even started mastering English and/or Writing and Literature.

Technically, I wrote this book when I was eleven. And the main publisher I sent it to was baffled at how much of an advanced writer I was, but said my plot was too confusing to the age that the book was written to. Another said the same, except he thought the plot was fine, and people just weren't interested in the genre I wrote at the current time.
But I know what you are getting at, and don't blame your assumption.

[OveriseFan]

Technically, I wrote this book when I was eleven. And the main publisher I sent it to was baffled at how much of an advanced writer I was, but said my plot was too confusing to the age that the book was written to. Another said the same, except he thought the plot was fine, and people just weren't interested in the genre I wrote at the current time.
But I know what you are getting at, and don't blame your assumption.

What kind of book is it?

If it's modernistic, realist writing ala Palahniuk, Eggers, etc. don't bother.

Eleven year olds (and sixteen year olds) have not experienced enough to write that. I'm not even a fan of Palahniuk...

[peacelovemusic]

It's science-fiction. It takes place in Japan, not quite ancient, but not modern either.