If you are wondering how to make it big in publishing you may have missed an intricacy that I only recently spotted. Each one of us has a unique set of talents. Ask yourself what do you have in a combination of talents that no one or not many have.
Then write the story.
I’ll offer myself as an example. I’m a United States Chess
Master and I also write fiction, mainly romance. But I have written using magical
realism, historical, pre-historical.
I often thought I should write a story about chess but I wasn’t
focused on what direction the story should take and besides my romances were
selling. I pictured a chess master so good in his deductive reasoning that he
or she becomes a consultant to the police, but I have yet to write it. Busy.
Then, The Queen’s Gambit,
was released by Netflix (it follows Walter Tevis’s book of the same name). This
gave me an idea. In The Queen’s Gambit, the story stops before the heroine has
a shot at becoming the world champion. What if I could write a contemporary
story following a child and his or her damaged family (they lost their father)
as he or she develops their chess talent. Then take the story to where he or
she actually wins the championship.
This concept has captured the interest of an agent and may
also be sellable by The Wild Rose Press under women’s fiction. I haven’t asked
them yet. I am sure it will get a publisher so stay tuned.
So, how are you unique and what will you write for us?
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