From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 1:06:55 PM UTC-4, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
   > Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)  wrote:   
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   > > > Yeah, but unless publishing the book was their idea, they tend to want a   
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   > > > lot more money than I have, so I'm making do with volunteer betareaders   
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   > >       I can understand that, I don't have the money to pay them either. But   
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   > > that just means that either I find a publisher who wants my book, or I   
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   > > ask if people want the book badly enough to help me get it properly put   
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   > > together, including editing.   
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   > If you've never been published, for whatever reason, (or in my case, if   
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   > you've only published a few short things, in non-related publications),   
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   > how would anyone know they "want the book badly"?   
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   > Your solution is one that can really only be applied in cases where the   
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   > author already has an audience.  It's not really viable for a complete   
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   > unknown.   
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   Maybe he's talking about Star Trek novels, where there's a media-based system   
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