I don’t expect to make a single cent out of this story...
… because I don’t even have the generic mailing address to a minor publishing house’s slush pile, let alone the social network and connections that would let me sidestep the ordinary process and get in touch with a human willing to spend more than thirty seconds glancing at yet another novel.
I may not be able to get /this/ novel published; but the skills I develop as I work on it, and the various lessons I learn in the process, seem likely to be useful for /future/ stories.
What made me start thinking in terms of paper publishing at all was this comment.
I don’t expect to make a single cent out of this story...
… because I don’t even have the generic mailing address to a minor publishing house’s slush pile, let alone the social network and connections that would let me sidestep the ordinary process and get in touch with a human willing to spend more than thirty seconds glancing at yet another novel.
Why do you choose that route over going to fanfiction.org if you think you have low chances of getting published?
I may not be able to get /this/ novel published; but the skills I develop as I work on it, and the various lessons I learn in the process, seem likely to be useful for /future/ stories.
What made me start thinking in terms of paper publishing at all was this comment.