# I sold a novel **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Tags:** books-writing-myths **Created:** [February 21, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647 "2025-02-21T23:53:25Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck) #### Post date: [February 21, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/1 "2025-02-21T23:53:25Z")
My novel, _The Cadaver Princess,_ will be published by Experimenter Publishing (Amazing Stories Books). I learned today that the cover will be done by award-winning artist Ron Miller. ---
### Author: ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer) #### Post date: [February 21, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/2 "2025-02-21T23:58:39Z")
So cool!! Congratulations! šŸŽ‰ ---
### Author: ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/3 "2025-02-22T00:01:25Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > So cool!! Congratulations Ninjaā€™d! But yes, congrats. I think a lot of people have visions of writing a great novel but, to actually follow through successfully is a fantastic accomplishment. Well done! ---
### Author: ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/4 "2025-02-22T00:04:05Z")
Excellent! Give us a link when preordering is possible ---
### Author: ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/5 "2025-02-22T00:04:32Z")
Congratulations! Let us know when itā€™s commercially available. What genre is it? ---
### Author: ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/6 "2025-02-22T00:09:09Z")
I call it ā€œhidden historical fantasy,ā€ where the fantasy events donā€™t violate known history. Tim Powers did it in much of his novels. ---
### Author: ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/7 "2025-02-22T00:19:28Z")
Hey, great news! Congrats! ---
### Author: ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/8 "2025-02-22T00:22:42Z")
Congrats! Iā€™d be interested in a short description. Brian ---
### Author: ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/9 "2025-02-22T00:24:46Z")
Thatā€™s an amazing success that few achieve. Best of luck with sales! ---
### Author: ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/10 "2025-02-22T00:25:22Z")
And I like his novels, so thatā€™s a selling point for me ---
### Author: ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/11 "2025-02-22T00:26:50Z")
Such an accomplishment ā€“ I hope you are proud of yourself! Nicely done! ---
### Author: ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/12 "2025-02-22T00:27:28Z")
Hereā€™s the back cover copy: In 1831 London, Pablo Mansong assists an anatomist, preparing cadavers for dissection. When a young girlā€™s corpse is brought in by body snatchers, she sits up on the slab and claims to be Princess Victoria, heir to the throne. She is in the body with the street beggar Charlotte Hill as a plot to keep Charlotte/Victoria under his thumb of her mother and her ambitious advisor John Conroy. There are dark forces, ancient wizards with agendas, demons, a talking bust of the poet Homer, resurrection men, sentient killer rats, and music that can drive people mad, all of which challenge Pablo as he tries to set things right. ---
### Author: ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/13 "2025-02-22T00:30:00Z")
You had me at ā€œSentient killer rats.ā€ Seriously, my congratulations added to all the others. ---
### Author: ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/14 "2025-02-22T00:30:40Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I call it ā€œhidden historical fantasy,ā€ where the fantasy events donā€™t violate known history. Sounds very cool. Congrats! ---
### Author: ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/15 "2025-02-22T00:32:21Z")
Iā€™ve long been a writer of non-fiction, and Iā€™m pretty good at it, but fiction? Forget it! Alas, the muse has never visited me. Congratulations and kudos on your perseverance, Chuck. Lots of people start novels, but few actually finish them, much less have one published. ---
### Author: ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/16 "2025-02-22T00:39:29Z")
Congrats. Thatā€™s pretty incredible. ---
### Author: ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/17 "2025-02-22T00:56:45Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Give us a link when preordering is possible Yes please ---
### Author: ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/18 "2025-02-22T00:59:41Z")
Way cool! Many _conga_-(sentient-killer)-_rats_! šŸ€ ---
### Author: ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/19 "2025-02-22T02:24:06Z")
Iā€™m very intrigued! Again, please let us know when we can get it. ---
### Author: ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sold-a-novel/1014647/20 "2025-02-22T02:26:36Z")
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