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AKA Damon Arvid. Under-the-radar writer, musician. Let's keep it that way. The cloud novels and other highlights are being collected at DamonArvid.com. To access all the music and Avocado Sun, click the big black box below.

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The Novel as Tip Jar

11/20/2015

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Another publisher's rejection makes it a round dozen––fortunately the reasons have been astonishingly diverse. Too highbrow for some, too pedestrian for others––unstated in all this is the assumption that any novel set in Japan (not by Haruki Murakami, and not featuring anime characters,  samurai, or geisha) will  fail to sell. 

I am not  super fazed because, somehow (through decent, uncontrived writing, one would like to think) I have built a stable readership over the three months of this blog's existence. 6,000 views per month wildly exceeds my expectations and restores faith that there are human people out there. Thanks!

I am now considering one more pass at Arisugawa Park, where I put back some of the detailed passages and (yawn-inducing?) prose that was cut in tandem with my agent, in the name of salability to the traditional publishers. 

The book will operate as a virtual tip jar, where readers of the (SEO alert) Damon Shulenberger endurancewriter blog can feel free to pass on a few bucks to their humble neighborhood prose crawler. 

I am eagerly awaiting a piece of art by April Jardine Limuran, my old Earth Fabric partner in crime that will create the perfect cover image. What you see above is my implausible attempt at concept ideation. I assure you, April is fully capable of turning a turd like that into a masterpiece. 
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Nils Sens link
11/21/2015 11:52:59 am

I have a few thoughts on the matter...

1. Keep it up. Rejection esp. in the form it came is hardly ever proof of failure. You're spot-on with your assessment of which kind of Japan stories sell. Your thriller is a bit niche. I would give it an internet acid test. Publish it online chapter by chapter until maybe way into the middle of the book. Those readers who would want to continue reading would be willing to put a bill in the tip jar.

I for my part would have bought Cowachunga after reading only the first published snippet, the vultures scene, btw.

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