6 Responses to “OddCon It Is”

1. Scott James Magner on April 23rd, 2009 at 2:10 pm

   This is sounding more and more like a show I want to attend.

2. Matt on April 23rd, 2009 at 5:47 pm

   See you there! Should be an interesting panel.

3. Christina Stiles on April 25th, 2009 at 7:42 am

   Matt, if you’ll be talking about how to break into the market on game fiction, will you post some info here?

4. Matt Forbeck on April 25th, 2009 at 9:26 am

   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.

5. Christina Stiles on April 26th, 2009 at 5:59 pm

   Basically, how does a newbie break into the market? How stable is the market?

6. Matt Forbeck on April 28th, 2009 at 9:28 am

   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.