Thanks, guys.
And I have to say that the "Photo's" is genuine, and that the misplaced apostrophe made me cringe every time I saw it.
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
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.
Dana - Jun 02, 2006 12:23:29 pm PDT #6924 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
deborah grabien - Jun 02, 2006 12:30:03 pm PDT #6925 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
This is a very weird day for book stuff.
1. Jonathan Karp passed on the Kinkaids. BAD.
2. The editor of the Seal anthology of women writers writing about illness, age, and how their bodies' frailties affect their work cut about a third of the writers from the list. The editor was apparently "fierce" that "I want Grabien's essay in here". GOOD.
3. My editor SMP - well. Check it out for yourselves. Murder at the Flatiron is written by Ruth Cavin, the imprints EIC and my personal editor for Haunted Ballads. Good, I think?
Typo Boy - Jun 02, 2006 12:58:48 pm PDT #6926 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Can you pitch the Kinkaids elsewhere? I loved the ending of one you did.
deborah grabien - Jun 02, 2006 1:00:34 pm PDT #6927 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Gar, trust me, the agents are on it. He's only one of a few people looking at it, and considering the upheaval at Warner (they were bought by Hachette and told they had to leave the Warners building; when Marlene was there in April, they had no idea where they were going and the mood was, well, grim), this may be for the best.
But it still stings. Bugger.
-t - Jun 02, 2006 1:50:13 pm PDT #6928 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Every time I come to this thread there is more to make me cry. Y'all are amazing.
Sorry for the sting, deb. I hope it is not too long before the Kinkaid Chronicles find a home - I am so looking forward to reading them all!
Hil R. - Jun 02, 2006 8:16:06 pm PDT #6929 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
That's gorgeous, Dana.
deborah grabien - Jun 03, 2006 3:12:09 pm PDT #6930 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
A note about drabble anthology stuff.
Having just had an (otherwise) depressing as fuck (we just lost a personal old friend and an icon and he was my age) conversation with my agent, I have the following:
I am to write a proposal - a page only will do it, so no problem there - for Glenn Yeffeth, EiC at BenBella, proposing a (probably) trade paperback 275 or so page anthology. My own mental interim working title: Drabble: All the Worlds in One Hundred Words.
Since Glenn is apparently not buying fiction right now, drabbles actually fall right under what he's looking at: vignettes, scenes, memories, interpretations. One thing every anthology proposal does need is what they call a four-legged anchor, four reasonably well-known names as the "anchor" - without that, they mostly toss the proposals. Since as far as I know, only Amy and I fit that req, I would have to poke a few writer buddies and see if they want to play. Everything else, assuming the proposal flew, would be from this community.
Do you want me to go ahead and do that? I especially want Teppy's viewpoint, since the weekly drabble is her baby and I won't make one move without it being okay with her.
Steph L. - Jun 03, 2006 5:23:42 pm PDT #6931 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I think it's an outstanding idea, Deb. (The anthology in general, as well as asking a few other writer buddies if they want to play.)
We all know about permission statements/releases being needed for anything that gets published, so no one will have their work appear without their prior knowledge and approval.
I'm assuming it's opt-in on a per-drabble basis, meaning, if there's a drabble someone would rather not submit, but they DO want to submit the rest of their drabbles, that's possible.
I especially want Teppy's viewpoint, since the weekly drabble is her baby and I won't make one move without it being okay with her.
Well, it's a collaborative effort, in my mind; I could offer up all the drabble ideas in the world, but if no one wanted to write them, it would be a pretty boring community. Yeah, the original idea came from me (not the concepts of drabbles in general; just the idea that we do this non-fanfic drabble community), and yeah, I come up with the topics each week, but I still feel like we all -- anyone and everyone who's written even 1 drabble -- have co-created this.
But, in simple terms, and for what it's worth, I say go for it!
deborah grabien - Jun 03, 2006 5:26:39 pm PDT #6932 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Tep, yep, opt-in. My thnking is, by topic challenge- and those were entirely yours. So you got first refusal on the idea.
Typo Boy - Jun 03, 2006 6:02:53 pm PDT #6933 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
So the way it is works is we pick out particular ones we want to you to consider? (Obviously limiting ourselfs to ones that fit the 100 words or under word limit.) That would make more sense and less work for you than you scrolling through the thread looking for stuff. Is that what you mean by "opt in"?