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Today at the dentist, I had a different dentist who was hideous to me, and I went back to the office in tears. Luckily, I work with people like [livejournal.com profile] pnh and [livejournal.com profile] tnh and [livejournal.com profile] claireeddy, and they took excellent care of my emotional and physical state.

I have a long list of things to do, but first I am going to give you some information.


How to do a Castoff -- A step-by-step guide to getting an accurate character count -- and how to estimate how long your manuscript will be as a bound book!



I hope you guys will now relax a little bit about how to do a character count, and also how the length of print books get figured out. No more sitting up nights, rocking back and forth, muttering to yourself and biting your nails because you can't remember how many pages are in a signature or what front matter is! Anna to the rescue!

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Date: 2006-03-22 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aulus-poliutos.livejournal.com
I've only published academic non fiction and a short story so far, but I have some gay characters in my NiPs (epic historical fiction, late Roman Empire setting). In one book there's a male rape scene (though the MC is not gay) and in another one of the MCs is gay, and I'm going to have sex scenes - two or three - that are relvant for character development and plot.

I got different advice from, "that's really tricky to sell because WalMart doesn't store gay character books" (which made me combine the words fuck and Walmart in one sentence) to, "write what you want, and btw, most publishers won't have a problem with it." Which is what I do. *grin*

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