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in all seriousness game looks good

I’ve got special access to the publisher, as in I broke in and read Abdication last night (walls were breathing in the underground lair where they keep the manuscript??? probably nothing)

Anyway I was shocked to discover that the cat Chorrykins is a major, if not THE central figure, in the novel. Chorrykins sections are told in a hyper-lucid first person POV with all feline pronouns, lot of descriptions of various bugs Chorry hunts. Huge spoiler: the finale involves finally defeating Area X by turning it into its true original intention: a massive interdimensional litterbox.

Riveting!

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Love the sub been very helpful I appreciate everyone here. Question is in the subject line. I‘ve got a genre fiction novel I’m seeking a trad agent for. Also have a litfic novel that I’d like to query next year. But the same time, I’d love to release collections of poetry and collections of essays on my own self-published as volumes that are purchasable and carry my name, got a small audience and I think it could do decently in my circle.

My question is: how this would register in an agents mind? I don’t even plan on mentioning it until talking more deeply with an agent (unless some breakout success happened).

This question feels slightly silly due to the reality that self pubbed authors regularly breakout into their own genre, even with works formerly self pubbed. But at the same time I am wondering from agents and authors how this might effect conversations and positioning from your experience and expertise!

I like all five books a lot and for their own reasons. I personally did not have the same problems with rhythm of war that others did.

With that said I think Brandon violated one of his own rules (promise needs a payoff) by making the choice to open Rhythm with the Knights Radiant already well in development.

Going back through the novels recently reading passages I realize that one of the core promises we get along the way is this huge deal of refounding the ancient orders.

I think if Rhythm’s first act had a heavy dose of seeing the building up of the structure and numbers of the Radiants it would have been so much more satisfying.

Brandon tends to take show dont tell to the extreme, unlike some of his genre contemporaries and very unlike litfic and other genres, he really only wants to impart information in active scenes. I think this made it so that he had to start Rhythm a bit later after the orders have started to build up. but man I’d even have taken an opening of like 3 pages straight up telling us how it all went down and making it important and exciting, as opposed to the drop in to the orders being kind of well underway.

Also for the record I didn’t hate Wind and Truth just think it could have been edited down by about 25%