Do I still have a chance of being published when English is my second language?
I live in the Netherlands, and I write all of my stories in English. I can’t help it; the English language can reach more people and is a lot more expressive with words than the Dutch language is.
I have never properly learned about English grammar, it sort of caught on while reading stories on the internet.
Anyways, I’m set on publishing at least one romance novel in English, but I’m not sure if that’s even possible when I live in the Netherlands (would they only accept Dutch?). Anyone know if it’s possible for me to get published when using English as my second language? Do I have to find a publisher in English?
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If you hadn’t said English was your second language, I would never have guessed. You write English better than a lot of the native speakers who post here.
Publishers don’t care whether the language you write in is your first, second or twentieth language – they just want authors who can write well in that language.
I don’t know if Dutch publishers will only publish books in Dutch. If a lot of people in the Netherlands speak English, I would expect there to be a market for books in English.
The other option would be to approach a publisher or agent in an English-speaking country. Not all of them will consider authors from outside their country, but some of them will.
yeah i think you could but if i were you id run it under an editor ( or even and english speaking freind who knows about grammer) and allot of dutch people speak english anyway so if its a good book i dont see why they wouldent acept it and i would run it to as many publishers and possible because you never know who will acept it
best of luck