[Malloriel]

I like to imagine that my epic, epic noveling will catch the interest of passing movie makers and not only will my gargantuan fan-base be screaming for more stories, but they'll be clamoring for the film versions of their new favourite characters.

Of course I insist on full creative in put so they can't Eragon my precious vision to a slow and mockingly painful death.

Seriously, though; I'm so not in it for the money, which means I can literally wait forever to get exactly what I want. If that means never being published, never having movies (a much less important goal and more of a quirky little day dream), then so be it. I know for a fact I've made something (many somethings) I'm terribly proud of and I find that so much more important. You spend so much time on a project or set of projects that to simply give it away to the first publisher to bite just to watch it be hacked apart by an editor who perhaps doesn't share the same vision or taste or scope is almost the most tragic thing I can think of. THE most tragic would be to have made it through publishing, your precious one beaten, bloody, but whole and alive, only to have it further mangled beyond recognition or respectability by some hack movie maker attempting to jump onto the fantasy-book-to-film bandwagon, which, by the way, has very few movies to its credit worth the cost of rental. The books upon which they're based, however, hold more merit than their writer's weight in gold. And so I say to you, HOLD OUT! Be willing to wait! FIND that editor who will preserve your vision and polish it to such a blinding gleam that even you had no idea just how great your story, characters, and vision could become.

HOLD OUT!!