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ita, you have email. Your avatar is about to take centre stage in London Calling, and I need information. Stuck without it.
That's insane troll logic!
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deborah grabien - Oct 18, 2005 7:23:20 pm PDT #4616 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
§ ita § - Oct 18, 2005 7:50:00 pm PDT #4617 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't have anything in my inbox, deb -- searching the spam filter now. [eta: just showed up -- will read asap]
Heh--Kristen, I'm reading that blog post right now too.
Kristen - Oct 18, 2005 8:42:35 pm PDT #4618 of 10001
ita, I laughed and laughed when I got to that. Then I thought, "New tagline!"
deborah grabien - Oct 18, 2005 8:43:04 pm PDT #4619 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
ita, bless you, love. I'm literally stopped in the middle of a sentence for lack of the info. And whereas I've done enough for the day - four days away from working on it meant a catchup spurt of 3200 words today - I'm on a roll, we're hitting the crime itself and the roots of the crime (racism), and I wanna keep on keepin' on....
§ ita § - Oct 18, 2005 8:48:09 pm PDT #4620 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just hit send, deb.
Kristen, I figured the last line (about the gun in the mouth) would be a pretty good tagline for a scriptwriter too. Maybe Tim can use it. Though it'd probably not be his mouth.
deborah grabien - Oct 18, 2005 9:01:34 pm PDT #4621 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
ita, excellent - received, fervent thanks mouthed, and backflung, with a couple of details about why the fight is beyond standard. These guys aren't after the guy she's protecting - they're professional racists, and they're after her. Fight gets very nasty, very quick. We get to watch a couple of National Front skinhead types get their asses thoroughly kicked.
erikaj - Oct 19, 2005 6:43:18 am PDT #4622 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yay! They should film that story and show it every Christmas.
sfmarty - Oct 19, 2005 8:08:30 am PDT #4623 of 10001
Who? moi??
Allyson, great article. I will be buying your book. Absolutly. I also sent the url to a friend of mine who writes for a BIG computer magazine. He can refer it on.
Susan W. - Oct 19, 2005 8:38:10 am PDT #4624 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I just made a longish list of agents and a shorter list of publishing houses. I intend to submit to them, in order (agents first, 3-4 at a time, except in cases where I make direct contact with an editor at a conference or by other means), until I either find myself agented or contracted or have made it to the end of the list. Only then am I allowed to give up and consign Jack and Anna's story to a box under my bed.
I need to do this, because otherwise the submission jitters are going to slay me. Obviously if it becomes obvious there's some problem with the story I haven't noticed yet, I'll stop querying long enough to fix it, and I'll add and subtract from the list if industry buzz warrants, but I'm not allowing myself to give up after the first 5-10 no's.
Pix - Oct 19, 2005 6:49:43 pm PDT #4625 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Allyson, the excerpt is fantastic! I'm so looking forward to reading the whole book.