I've just finished a 360,000-page tg novel. It should be available soon via an Amazon subsidiary. How and where should I publicize it? Would it be appropriate to put excerpts here in BigCloset? Below I've pasted a part of the back-cover blurb--it gives a pretty good idea of the plot.
Napoleon said that women are only baby machines.
George disagrees: They are also very good machines for cooking and cleaning.
Would he still hold that opinion if he found himself renamed “Pansy-Ann” and filling out a dress?
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George is a bastard. That's the only possible explanation for the way he treats his girlfriends. After Celia got pregnant, he abandoned her and ran off to Honduras, where he repeated with Suzi. He was working on Petunia when the roof fell in. Suzi's father runs a project designed to reform people by re-forming them into someone else entirely, body and soul. He needs a guinea pig for his grand demonstration–the most thoroughgoing metamorphosis ever attempted. And of course Suzi needs a maid to care for the baby (and also to do her laundry, wash her dishes, and clean her house) while she pursues a career. Therefore: A team of doctors will attempt to transform George into sweet little Pansy-Ann, a typical Honduran peasant girl, who will freely ask to work as Suzi's personal maid.
If the project succeeds, then for the remainder of his life, George will be a living demonstration of his own (and Napoleon's) opinion of a woman's rá´le in society.
Of course, that really IS a woman's proper rá´le!
Isn't it?
360,000-pages?
OK, 'fess up. Exactly how big is your novel? :)
40,000 words is usually considered the minimum length for a novel.
360,000 words would be a pretty hefty tome.
360,000 pages would probably be split into multiple volumes and require a truck to move...
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As for publicity, Erin's probably your best source of info on what you can / cannot do here. I think we've had one or two people in the past that have published the first chapter or two of a novel, then included a link to where you can buy the full thing. Just make it abundantly clear at the top of the page that you're only printing an extract here, so no-one can mistakenly think you're planning to serialise the whole book.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Indeed.
At a very rough estimate that makes well over 15 million words. 'War and Peace' is about 500,000 words and even Marcel Proust's 'À la recherche du temps perdu' is only a tenth of yours, so that's some novel. I suspect that would take up quite a slice of Erin's server space but I'm sure an extract would be OK on the terms mittfh suggests.
Check with Erin first but she may be along soon when she sees the title of you blog. Makes 'Bike' look quite puny by comparison :)
Robi
I haven't checked the word count recently, but
EAFOAB/ aka Bike is significantly longer than 500,000 words/ War and Peace, but nowhere close to 360,000 pages.
Holly
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Holly
Bike Word Count
Up to the end of Part 1,094, I have the figure at 1,505,917.
Powerful Statistic
Bike Resources
Bike Resources
Quite a shelfful
If we approximate 1 cm to be about 200 pages (just working off a book I have lying on my bedside table, but it seems reasonable), 360,000 pages would be about 1,800 cm wide, i.e. 1,8 metres (~ 6 feet, give or take an inch). I'm terrible with measurements, but I think that wouldn't fit in any of my bookcases.
pages, word, bytes?
Hmmm. Yeah, 360,000 pages seems unlikely.
Average book runs 200-500 pages (and 500 feels big). Typically 300-500 words/page (but at the high end, it's hard to read; 400 is a reasonable average).
So, at 360,000 pages, that's maybe 720 volumes. :-) At 360,000 words, we're talking 900 pages--a series? At 360,000 bytes (and about 5 characters/word, in English), it's 72,000 words, or 180-240 pages, which is more single-novel size.
So, for clarification: pages, words, bytes? Something else? Seems an unreasonably large number, as it stands. Not intending offense, mind, just wondering.
:-)
Amy!
pages of new novel--360,000?
Susana No way it's 360,000 pages! Sorry 'bout that--it's long, but not that loooooooooooonnnnnggggg. It's 360,000 words, just as some commenters surmised. I have a preliminary printout, and it's easily handled.
Susana
360,000 Words = 4.5 books
The average modern novel runs about 80,000 words. The average young adult book has about 45,000 words.
There are no rules.
Deathly Hollows has about half as many words as your book at 198,227.
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Three Books?
A solution would be to do what Jenny Walker did with her first effort, 'No Half Measures,' and divid it into two works or volumes. It worked quite nicely for her. Sequels always seem to be less intimidating than than a single big book.
My Newly Chronicles consisting of three books haves a total of 405,029 words;
Tips - 85, 819
A Different Kind of Courage - 165,226
Inconvenient Truths - 153,984
All the writer here has to do is decide on logical break points in her story, (which Jenny Walker did quite nicely) and divid up her novel into two or three separate works.
It's just a thought.
Nancy Cole
"You may be what you resolve to be."
T.J. Jackson