Is it possible to post stories to your sight

> From: terrierkeeper
> Talked with a lot of people
> who read it. I even talked with one of the big authors over the
> internet about it. He told me a lot of readers employed by publishers
> and agents to decide what they're going to use come from the Ivey
> Tower establishment and do not know what most people are like and
> what they will enjoy. They don't like Outsiders of their little set.

Here's the thing:
They're not interested in better or worse as some abstract literary concept,
but turning a profit. Nor do they care about that 'most people' are like. If
a badly written book has sold well in the *past*, with a small but
significant and easily identifiable and targetable *demographic*, then
agents will want more manuscripts that share that book's particular level
and variety of creative incompetence. Sticking with what you know works is
not 'living in an Ivory Tower'.

The only exception to this is when an author like J K Rowling writes
something that grabs the agent's mind and really shakes it. Something that
interests him or her so much they become certain it will also interest
enough other people to be profitable. And that is very very rare.

> All I can say is that it will be published when it gets published.
> I need to get 'proof' that this is a novel worthy of interest and
> publication so they can then go to these little ladies and their
> superiors.

What is your story about? What's the theme? What is interesting about your
story you hope others will find so interesting? So far you haven't told us.
You've only told us that it involves assassinations, politics, and O'Neil
cylinders, and that we might not like some of the chapters. That's not
exactly world beating self promotion. :)

Talk to us. Give us an outline. A first chapter. You have our interest. Make
use of it before we all get distracted by some butterflies or something.

John