From the monthly archives: June 2006
I sold a story to Scrybe Press! Trying to get the novel edited by July 1… ergh… Conventions: Do: be nice, understand their schedule. Don’t: Ask for them to read your stuff, ask to be introduced to their agent. Alex Wilson gives us the Clarion Podcast, and he supplies our closing music,
Excellent info from Tobias Buckell on a range of advances he got from a survey. (Of course I forgot who sent this to me… sorry…)
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And somewhat related, here’s the Locus Sales Sheet, listing author, book, agent, and pub. house.
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I have an author who has agreed to send me [...]
I know I save swearing for my other podcast, but sheesh, this is a pretty f’d up view of “perfect.”
“In a perfect world we would have read some part of the books before rejecting them.”
Dude, in a perfect world you accept everyone’s books and we all become bestsellers, there’s no poverty, and [...]
The world of publishing is still safe for us plain types. The Eva Longoria book deal was a lie.
Whew.
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Please use Ebay for good, and not for evil. Or stupidity, as the Writer Beware blog illustrates.
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The gang at Fast Forward TV do fantastic SF literary interviews – [...]
Heaven seems to be turning into a novel. I don’t have very many short stories. Submission bomb controversy started at Charles Coleman Finlay’s blog. Shyness sucks. Here’s how to deal. The info I could find on first novels is at Justine Larbalestier’s site. Jay Penney’s blog, covering his usage of Holly [...]
Please understand when you read this that I am not saying I want to break up with you. I’m not even saying we need some time apart from each other. But I do think we need to slow down.
Ever since you were completed you’ve been talking about polishing up an outline and sending out [...]
A diligent spammer is bugging me, so for now comments are moderated. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Jim Baen of Baen books is currently in the ICU after suffering a stroke. There’s not a lot of info right now, but send good thoughts his way (specifically they asked for no cards or flowers).
There is no further news as of right now.
From Making Light.
Heaven nears the 20K word mark. New episode this weekend.
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Wanna publish a book? Don’t work hard, refine the craft, and impress readers with your dazzling turn of tale. Just be hot and have a TV show. Now, I love Desperate Housewives, but come on. In high school we drew the line. [...]
My novel has gone through two rewrites. I am starting to get comments back from readers. I look at rewriting it again and simply balk. I don’t want to go through 400 pages of edits again.
I don’t want to.
Why, yes, I did spend all day with a three-year-old, why do you ask?
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