<p>actually, to make it a bit clearer, i have written it already. i want to shape it a bit more, work on the drawing, and get it published.</p>
<p>do you know how this thing works? is there a certain format you must follow in making the artworks? how do you get it published if you are only a student? thanks!</p>
<p>p.s.: i was thinking maybe i could get my little eleven year old brother to draw so that it has the child-but-not-so-child look. :D</p>
<p>It would certainly be hard. If your under 18 you'll need parental signings of contracts or what not. I don't mean to deter you, because it sounds like what you're doing is great, but the chances a major publishing company would pick it up and print it is probably slim. I wish you the best of luck though!</p>
<p>If you really want to get into it you should get a agent, it works the same as actors agent, they market your book around with their connections. however, its not totally essential.</p>
<p>best of luck :)</p>
<p>thanks for your replies:</p>
<p>well, i am not going for bestseller or anything. is there any place where you can just pay a certain amount of money and get it published?</p>
<p>I don't think so.</p>
<p>Ya, there is but almost no one starts a career that way. I can’t remember what people call them, I think those companies are refers to as phantom publishers. Those types of publishing companies are notorious for taking your money with no true benefit to the writer.
If you have any good journalism or English professors at your school, I would go to them and ask them what you should do; they could tell you what you should do next and they might have some connections.</p>
<p>Yeah, there are places like that, but I too am a young writer and even I had a novel, I'd never use one.</p>
<p>This lady (one of my dad's patients) used one to get her book published. I will let you know, even the worst literary agent would have told her to throw that story in the trash. It is an awful story. But she got it self published. She gave my dad a free copy. It was even worse than the story itself. It looked shiny, but the cover art "designed by a professional" looked like something I could have done on my computer. There were about 4 clear as day spelling errors. Even more grammatical ones. To this day (the book was published about 2 years ago) she still carries around a couple of her many copies (from the first and only printing!) in her purse, trying to get those awful things sold.</p>
<p>^poor lady</p>
<p>ya, don't self publish, its bad news. take angc1 advice and go talk to someone who knows like a professor.</p>
<p>You could go to a vanity press, if all you wanted to do is get published. You pay them to publish the book, and they you get copies of it to distribute, or whatever. It won't make a ton of money, probably, but if some other company sees the book and likes it, they could pick it up and publish it under their name (and give you a big contract :)).</p>
<p>Make sure the book promotes same-sex couplehood, abortion, and euthanasia. You gotta indoctrinate 'em while they're young, Uncle Stalin used to say. Right, tommeister?</p>
<p>Why, Fides, are you making sardonic remarks to tommeister in a completely different thread. </p>
<p>Again I say, that's not very Christian of you.</p>
<p>ah, vanity press that’s what I was talking about not phantom press. thanks tommeister</p>
<p>^^glad to be of assistance.</p>
<p>Go to your local bookstore or library. There are a lot of books and magazines about this. There's one that is supposed to be very good, but I can't remember the exact name. I think it's "Writer's Digest" but ask someone at the bookstore or library.</p>
<p>this sounds interesting:</p>
<p>my neighbor, who is now fourty-three, published a small book for kids. never got famous or anything, but i think it was self-published. i think he just wanted it as a good, fun experience for him and his kids. hmmm</p>