标题: 《The Engineer Reconditioned》作者： - Neal Asher【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-11-10 16:17 标题: 《The Engineer Reconditioned》作者： - Neal Asher【EPUB】 THE ENGINEER RECONDITIONED NEAL ASHER INTRODUCTION I am a classic overnight success i.e. that particular night was over twenty years long. It hasbeen a struggle up the ladder missing not a single rung quite often stepping back down someand every now and again having someone stand on my fingers. I spent many years in thewilderness of non-publication wondering if Id made the right choice of vocation while I wrotethe inevitable fantasy trilogy still unpublished then I was published in the small pressesover many years and finally ... Macmillan. Too often we read of someone getting the x-thousands advance on a first book and hearing this lose sight of the fact that it doesntnormally happen that way. There is unfortunately a lot of truth in the image of the writerstruggling away in his garret then drinking himself to death. Writing is hard getting workpublished is hard and if you want easy money your best option is to become an estate agent.It took me five or more years to get my first short story accepted and then that magazinefolded before publication. After that slight boost and it was a boost someone had actuallywanted my work I managed to get more and more stories published the occasional novellaserialised and a one-off novella published for a single cash payment. For my short stories myreward was a copy of the magazine and some complimentary letters mostly. After another fiveyears I was getting the occasional cheque —about enough to pay