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I am confused regarding what you have to say regarding authors in Japan having no control how their work is published?
I have a hard time believing this true....<_<
As I understand it, a writer no matter who he goes through has COMPLETE control over how his work is published. Even if hes totally unknown.
If a publisher believes his work will be good as a published book, then that writer is in control of how it is published.
For one thing, Dengeki Publishes both light novels and normal novel correct?
Well as any writer will tell you, and a publisher, each of the two publishign divisions of Dengeki will probably have seperate publishing submision forms that go to each individual section.
In other words, if they recieve a submission in LN division, thats because the writer wants it as a LN and the publisher, if they want to publish this author, will do so as a LN. But if its sent to the other normal novel division, the publisher knows to publish this as a normal novel.
The exception is if a publisher believes the story is not LN material or normal Novel material.
But as far as I know, in almost any culture that publishes novels, a writer is in full control.
And yes, I realize that most of the time, illustrators are chosen by publishers, but were not talking about them, this is about the writers.
Point is, the writer chooses which division to send the novel to, and depending where it arrives, that division will publish it as what they publish (either LN or Normal Novel).
-Matt
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