Mark C. Newton's Road to Publication, parts I to III

Filed by: Darren Turpin on February 23, 2008 at 10:57
Filed under: Writing

Writing - image from SXC.HUMark Charan Newton works for Solaris Books by day, and writes novels by night; his debut, The Reef will be published by Pendragon Press in March, and his agent John Jarrold recently secured a two-book deal with Macmillan UK - details posted over on UKSFBN - for a dark epic fantasy set in a world on the brink of a looming ice age.

Mark and I tend to exchange emails quite regularly - we're both huge Springsteen / Americana fans, so there's a lot of link-swapping of YouTube vids etc. - and we've been known to converse over the board of an online chess game from time to time.

Not so long ago, I suggested to him that his perspective as both an author and a publisher might offer a pretty decent insight into the whole publishing process for those as want to know such things. Maybe he might see his way clear to blogging about it?

'Alright.' he said. 'I will.'

And he has:

It's all very sane, sensible stuff (well, so far...) and well worth taking a look at if you're a newbie writer or wannabe published author.

Filed on: February 23, 2008
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One Response to 'Mark C. Newton's Road to Publication, parts I to III'

  1. Mark on February 23rd, 2008 12:10 pm

    Well, I can only keep the up the illusion of sanity for so long...

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