Post History

Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/29858
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

I'm new here, so, please, bear with me.

I had a look at previous answers to similar questions, but my case is (possibly) a bit different.

- I am not a professional writer, so I wrote this (long) novel for personal amusement.
- Important "detail": I'm Italian and the novel is written in my mother language.
- After finishing it, I circulated among friends and it got a surprisingly good reception, with many suggestions to try to publish it.
- I did an accurate review of the text and it is, for me, definitive.
- I know quite well, though, professional editing (or, at least, screening) would be necessary before actual publication.
- I would prefer to go through a regular publisher (an agent isn't in scope; I don't plan to make a living out of this), but I have no connections and I wouldn't know how to submit it (remember, it is in Italian!).
- I have only a vague idea of what a query is and I'm not sure American rules hold true in Italy.
- Subject is atypical, because the novel apparently starts in a Fantasy world, but later it will be clear we are on our old Earth, so the genre changes "a posteriori" to (reasonably) Hard Science-fiction.
- I'm also unsure on how I should present such a thing.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

P.S.: any comment on my command of the English language is welcome.

Original score: 48