erika! This month's column by my editor at Minotaur - Ruth Cavin - should interest you:
Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.
'First Date'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
deborah grabien - Oct 06, 2005 7:13:21 am PDT #4505 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
deborah grabien - Oct 06, 2005 7:23:37 am PDT #4506 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Susan, BTW, how about a "what NOT to do" question? Sure ways to turn the agent and editor off?
Connie Neil - Oct 06, 2005 7:31:39 am PDT #4507 of 10001
brillig
From deb's link.
(A few years ago, there was discussion in the American mystery field about adding more categories to the usual ones of “hardboiled” and “cozy,” and Lawrence Block suggested trying “books with cats and books without cats.”)
Yet one more of the many reasons why I love Lawrence Block.
§ ita § - Oct 06, 2005 7:33:54 am PDT #4508 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What about books with small dogs and books without small dogs. We know where Crusie would go.
deborah grabien - Oct 06, 2005 7:34:24 am PDT #4509 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Hee! Yep, Block became the stuff of instant legend with that one. He just rocks.
I posted this elsewhere, and am adding it here, as well, because I need the info:
Italian speakers who (unlike me) do not stiffen like a corpse at gender-specific grammar, a question:
One dying man telling another man to, essentially "live on": Go, get out of here, I'm done for, you carry on for me: go, live.
The word that immediately came to mind there is "vivere".
In that context, male to male, am I using the right form?
deborah grabien - Oct 06, 2005 7:35:55 am PDT #4510 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
ita, thing is, there's a ridiculous preponderance of cat-oriented mystery novels out there. The genre literally has its own sub-genre featuring cats; hell, if I do this Boston thing, I'll be doing it with Clea Simon, and her first mystery is called "Mew is for Murder".
§ ita § - Oct 06, 2005 7:40:53 am PDT #4511 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
there's a ridiculous preponderance of cat-oriented mystery novels out there
I know ... I was just riffing on a strange (and a bit annoying) repetitiveness the lady shows.
Steph L. - Oct 06, 2005 7:45:26 am PDT #4512 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
What about books with small dogs and books without small dogs. We know where Crusie would go.
Actually, Bet Me kind of threw me for a loop when it had a cat instead of a dog.
§ ita § - Oct 06, 2005 7:48:49 am PDT #4513 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Actually, Bet Me kind of threw me for a loop when it had a cat instead of a dog.
There was one with a large dog that surprised me too. Such a rhythm.
erikaj - Oct 06, 2005 7:55:31 am PDT #4514 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I have actually heard some of the, like, Grafton books, called "softboiled" before, because they are a bit between...I think it might apply to Grafton, much as I like her. She mostly hints at the Sex and the Violence.Paretsky, imo, should sit at the same table with Hammett and Chandler. She goes after corruption and Holocaust gold scams...stuff like that. I admire her big canvas. I don't know how I missed Muller, except maybe I liked my mysteries softer then.