By Mark Stevens According to one website, the first draft of Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire was 1,400 pages long. 400,000 words. He has since whacked it down by one-third, but the projected 900-page novel drew a $2 million advance. The deal was announced a few weeks ago. First novel. Hallberg had previously published…
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Why You *Really* Should Finish that Book
I’m taking a page from Mike Befeler, and introducing myself, since this is also my first post on the RMFW blog! I’m Jeffe Kennedy and fairly new to RMFW, though I did attend the Colorado Gold conference a number of years ago. It’s kind of a funny (read: cringeworthy) story. I attended at the urging…