Wow, I'm sorry to hear that!
River: 1001. 1002. Simon: River... River: Shh. I'm counting between the lightning and the thunder to see if the storm is coming or going. .1005
'The Message'
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.
erikaj - Aug 13, 2006 9:30:32 am PDT #8053 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Typo Boy - Aug 13, 2006 10:00:47 am PDT #8054 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.
Gus, that sucks.
sumi - Aug 13, 2006 10:53:23 am PDT #8055 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
SailAweigh - Aug 13, 2006 3:50:53 pm PDT #8056 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Sounds like a new broom sweeping clean at Baen, Gus. But to mix my metaphors here, they could be throwing out the baby with the bathwater and regret that fact very much, later. I hope you find an alternate publisher, quickly.
deborah grabien - Aug 13, 2006 4:46:29 pm PDT #8057 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Gus, you did all this without an agent, yes?
I don't know whether Tor is looking at unagented stuff, but if you're willing to wait about ten days, I can find out; I'll be in Anaheim for WorldCon and one of the things I'm supposedly doing is confabbing with Beth Meacham, and she's an editor at Tor.
If that appeals at all, can you email me a synopsis?
Gus - Aug 13, 2006 7:22:09 pm PDT #8058 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
First: Toni Weisskopf was the signature over both the acceptance and the stop-order. I get the sense of hierarchies, here. Ms. Weisskopf may have no idea about me or my ... thing.
DG: I'll e-you the whole thing, if you like, with synopsis.
LMB has said she will go to bat for the thing, with a caveat that even a "brand" writer only has so much sway.
deborah grabien - Aug 13, 2006 7:31:56 pm PDT #8059 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Gus, just the synopsis will do. If I can work that situation into the conversation, I just want to know what I'm talking about.
Gus - Aug 13, 2006 9:58:50 pm PDT #8060 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Just reviewed Tor's list. I am not sure of the fit. There may be too many "rivets" in my thing.
Hey, whatever. I'll send the synopsis. It is actually a pretty good story. They might bite.
Volans - Aug 14, 2006 12:47:09 am PDT #8061 of 10001
move out and draw fire
LMB has said she will go to bat for the thing
Sweet!
erikaj - Aug 14, 2006 11:29:14 am PDT #8062 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
As I took it upon myself to think of a remainder drabble challenge, here's a second one about "escape" I finished now:
I know people wonder about my interest in crime, scores big and small, people cutting their lives short to alter their brain chemistry beyond recognition, risk, pain and death. I’m a nice girl. I should want to know nice things. Safe things, sunny things. Somehow, being born and barely making it out with my life and living on the government’s tiny thread, sticky like a spider’s web, should make me believe in happily-ever-after, or at least that women with big hips who wear white after Labor Day should die. But, crime fiction or chicklit, we all need to escape the day to day, the part of us that writes the checks and buys the milk. In invented worlds we are free.