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Thanks to both of you Is Zoetrope free? What about publishing a chapter, or an excerpt? Does that qualify as giving up first rights?

A friend of mine found these pages and wanted us to give it a try, but I rather check first. The Next Big Writer http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/index.html Youwriteon.com http://www.youwriteon.com/ They offer free reviewing (providing one reviews as well), but they also hint at the...

It makes sense to me Thanks!:) I like to get reader´s input. In my case, I also enjoy books that show a possibility for continuation. Well, only if it is a good story.

In the novel I am about to read, the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the author includes three pages of acknowledgment where he accurately describes the bibliography he used. I will follow that example. It would be embarrassing to end up like Dan Brown who was sued for plagiarism by...

Large novels tend to introduce new characters throughout the story, some even close to the end (e.g. Archie and Bonnie in GWTW; Platon Karataev in War and Peace). Is that appropriate? My novel is the first of a trilogy. Although it stands as a novel on its own, I have introduced, in the last six...

And you think that by asking here I won´t get good info? Sweetheart you´ve just given me the best link so far!:) I had been to Wikipedia and I had visited the Royal Air Force page before, but I did not wander beyond "History" so I missed the archives. All these data and most of it online! I...

It does help! Thanks!

I have combed the Internet (and read several books on the subject) for information, but what I got were muddled and contradicting facts, so I am recurring to you , my next to the last hope.:D All these questions regard World War II a) Is it true that the average age of a RAF pilot at the...

No need to apologize The comments were very enlightening and they did help.

I am also at the end of my novel and I must admit that I´ve been revising, rewriting and editing all along, and I am still going to do it when I am finished. To me revising means checking out mistakes, grammar, or redundancies, rewriting is changing the plot. I have found an extremely...

It is interesting how we wandered away from my original question. Perhaps it is because plagiarism awakes such anger in all writers and would be writers. Having been plagiarized −and quoted and misquoted without credit− in the past, I know the feeling. But my original query was: Is it possible...

This is what I know Modern coffins are either plain pine boxes with separate covers or fancier caskets with hinged lids. Either way the coffin is nailed down. Two nails are usually used to shut it before burial. I never heard of mechanisms to open it from the inside which doesn´t mean they...

Thank you all for your input I agree that aknowledgement is neccesary. I wouldn´t be caught dead writing a non fiction piece and not including some form of bibliography. Even in my articles I provide sources. I just didn´t know that novels could carry such a thing. In Library School we used to...

Do novels have bibliographies? I don´t remember seeing one that did. That would be a great solution!

First I would have to define... my culture!:p I belong to three cultures (uncle-niece marriage is permitted in all of them). In Latin America such marriages were common (and still exist tough not as prevalent as in previous centuries), but I am not writing about Latin America.

I know that copying situations from a work of fiction amounts to plagiarism. What about taking a situation from a non-fiction book? Let’s say I am writing a novel about an American general in WWII, and I include (with suitable modifications) an anecdote taken from a biography of Patton, is that...

Ooops! One of my themes could be considered incest In certain countries/cultures uncle-niece marriage was/is permitted. In my novel, the protagonist marries her mother´s brother

No, I am not writing category, but I thought... If they had qualms about certain subjects, other publishers would do to.:eek:

I will cite the source, but I was talking about requesting permission to quote or copy.

Are there still topics one shouldn’t attempt in fiction? Perhaps in certain genres? In a book I am reading, Writing Romance, the author asks a question: Can a successful romance deal with controversial issues? In theory, the answer is “Yes”, but she points out that some category publishers...