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This is really exciting! For what it's worth as you look at the analytics down the line, I'm not totally sure I'll be able to keep up with it in serialized form (though it's a cool experiment and I'm glad you're doing it) but I will definitely be reading it straight through once it's all finished and in one place.

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I love the cover art. Gives me a Hyperion Trilogy vibe, and science fiction is my favorite fiction genre (do not ask me about Enders Game, as I loathed it). Do you consider this book science fiction, is it futuristic without science fiction elements?

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>"But he also felt that, given the political realities in that world, there was essentially no chance of someone with my politics signing with a YA imprint. And there was a broader concern that, since my protagonist is a woman of color and I am a white man, there could be objections along those lines in other genres as well."

Maybe you need a new agent? I would have suggested the Elena Ferrante plan ...

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Cool! Particularly because of the illustrations. I have many fond memories of musing about illustrations and, e.g. what they might reveal about the worlds of their respective stories.

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Sounds interesting. I'm in!

I remember that Stephen King did something kind of like this about 20 years ago, but in his case, the book hadn't been written in advance and he stated from the outset that although people were free to pay as much or as little as they liked, if he felt he wasn't getting enough to make it worthwhile to continue, he would abandon the project. Which, in fact, he did after, I think, six or seven chapters. As far as I know, he never went back to finish the story for publication. I may still have a printout of the incomplete story somewhere.

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looking forward to this. I happen to be reading Parable of the Sower right now funnily enough.

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So jazzed about this. Thank you for serializing your novel; I look forward to reading it.

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Excited to read this Freddie!

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