The write alternative: against the tide of mainstream publishing, this small house--now fiction central at FSU--is still swimming after 30 years.(Fiction Collective Two fo Florida State University)

Florida Trend, December, 2004 by Eville, Bill

Ok, so after years of anguish, you've gone and done it-written your first novel!

Congratulations! Years of writing and rewriting, doubt and determination, angst and triumph-finally over. Now to get that hard-won manuscript published.

And the chances of your cherished work ever joining the colorful fodder stacked at Borders and Books-a-Million?

Better not quit the day job.

If it were a legal thriller, a mystery or a love story, a political tell-all, a spy novel or a fanciful spin on historical events, your book might have a shot at catching a commercial publisher's eye.

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