4JeffWilliams Publishing

4JeffWilliams  Publishing I originally wrote this message to you via SoL as I didn't yet have access to PMs on FictionPress. I'm repeating it here in case you don't always get your SoL messages.

Ms. Ravencroft, I have been following your writings on SoL, and am now up to Chapter 16 of Eric Olafson, Fleet Cadet GC VII on FictionPress. Other than needing to be cleaned up a bit (proofreading, professional editing, etc.) I cannot believe that you wouldn't be able to find a professional publishing house such as BaenBooks, DAW, Tor,etc. willing to publish this story as a series of books. Granted what I have read so far would need to be broken down into more than seven books in print.

Have you contacted Orson Scott Card about the idea? He is open to other authors, very intelligent, much more than competent, and has superb connections in the publishing world. Your works are well-developed, reasonably novel, fun, and easy to read. While they have echos of other novels (few novelists exist in a vacuum) from past decades and certainly don't fit into the current fad of supernatural tales, I'm sure that there is a very willing audience available to make your original writings a commercial success. Even if you've explored this idea before, please consider contacting O.S. Card and even Mercedes (Misty) Lackey - also open to other writers - to explore this further.

I have been reading science fiction for almost fifty years, and really think your products have a place and are publishable in the commercial world.

I'm now starting 'Captain Olafson GC X' and still feel all the above to be true.

The transvestite/transsexual issues, far from being roadblocks to the mainstream, are relatively novel to this genre but would likely find acceptance by a wider audience than ever before. Mercedes Lackey's first serious success was with a homosexual protagonist and she has become one of the most successful of current SF authors. Your stories do not work because of the idiosyncrasies of Eric, they just give his character some unique facets and provide more depth to his character and more avenues for the stories to explore.

It would be great for your tales to find the wider audience available via the traditional publishing route and it is likely that venue is available to you. It is likely you just need to find a sympathetic someone with the right connections, possibly one of the authors mentioned above.

You have my best wishes for further success in your writing and thank you for making your works available to the extent that they are