Just a reminder that I’ll be at OddCon for a short while this weekend. I’m scheduled for a seminar on Saturday at 2:30 PM. It’s called “Game Fiction,” and it features Monica Valentinelli, Matt McElroy, Pat Rothfuss, and me.
I’ll likely have to take off in the early evening to get back home, so it’ll be a short trip for me. If you’re going to be at the show, be sure to track me down and say hi!
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This is sounding more and more like a show I want to attend.
See you there!
Should be an interesting panel.
Matt, if you’ll be talking about how to break into the market on game fiction, will you post some info here?
I’m sure that will come up, but I don’t have any notes to work from. I’ll be speaking off the top of my head. If you have specific questions, let me know, and I can post answers here.
Basically, how does a newbie break into the market? How stable is the market?
The market isn’t any more stable than anything else these days, which is to say, it’s not. However, it’s not any worse either.
To break in, you need to write a novel. Try one of your own first. Don’t write a tie-in novel without a license, as you’ll likely just be wasting your time.
Before an editor commissions a novel from you, she’ll want some confirmation that you can actually complete a novel. Your original novel serves as proof of that, and there’s always the possibility that you can sell that elsewhere too. Once you have that sample, it’s easier to start knocking down doors, but without it you likely won’t go far.
That’s the short answer, and only the first step, of course.