Hey, you guys have all read the first two chapters of the Kylie+Kendal Jenner book, right?
Tell me how it goes.
Just tryin' a little spicy talk.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
§ ita § - Jun 05, 2014 9:22:25 am PDT #22444 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2014 9:58:19 am PDT #22445 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
People who've edited or betaed or just plain read critically for word choice--who would you most want to be the editor for, and who the least?
I wonder what editing Samuel Delany would be like...
hippocampus - Jun 07, 2014 10:07:49 am PDT #22446 of 28344
not your mom's socks.
oh gods, editing Nova. Or Dhalgren. WOW.
This sounds like an editorial CFM, ita. ::thinking::
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2014 10:26:50 am PDT #22447 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This sounds like an editorial CFM, ita
Yes, one with an open cast. I still haven't finished Dhalgren. I love it, but I can't fucking READ it. I'm fascinated by the opinions of people with more reading and more critical reading than mine.
Nook is having a sale right now on book bundles. Is the Divergence series worth $29.99. Three Dragonriders for $9.99--Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon, maybe. I'm curious to see how rapey they feel to an adult reader. Outlander for $50 (that is probably more than I can justify right now, but I could pull tight on other things--it is 7 books)? Here's the full list, for anyone interested (remember, you can read them without having a Nook (Amy).
lisah - Jun 07, 2014 10:32:36 am PDT #22448 of 28344
Punishingly Intricate
Has anyone else read the Martian yet? SO GOOD!!!
Amy - Jun 07, 2014 10:45:54 am PDT #22449 of 28344
Because books.
Oh man, the Outlander series is so tempting. I still haven't read the last few books, and I need to reread from the beginning.
ita, if you want the Divergent books, give me a day or two and I'll mail you the first two. I have them, and I'm not going to read them.
Also, explain the editing question some more? This is someone you would want to edit because you feel s/he needs editing that doesn't get done?
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2014 11:14:36 am PDT #22450 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This is someone you would want to edit because you feel s/he needs editing that doesn't get done?
No--someone who you think you'd be good at editing, whose prose you'd like to be part of fixing up, and could produce a book you'd be proud of.
Why aren't you reading Divergent? I mean, should I?
Dana - Jun 07, 2014 11:21:31 am PDT #22451 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
How much does it bother you when the third book in a trilogy goes off the rails?
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2014 11:22:27 am PDT #22452 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh. Well, that can vary from amusement to stopping reading. Hmm.
Amy - Jun 07, 2014 11:28:26 am PDT #22453 of 28344
Because books.
It's just not my kind of dystopia. I'm actually not a huge fan of dystopia -- I really prefer post-apocalyptic stuff. The Hunger Games books were fantastic, but they also made a weird kind of sense to me that some of the other really contrived dystopias don't.
I forget how I ended up with them. When I was promoting Cold Kiss, I ended up getting a lot of books from my editor and other people.
No--someone who you think you'd be good at editing, whose prose you'd like to be part of fixing up, and could produce a book you'd be proud of.
That's a complicated question, I think because any author I'm already reading has already been edited, so it's hard to tell where the raw material ends and the editor's work began. If that makes sense.
I do remember what it felt like to come across new authors I wanted to acquire who blew me away,though. That's a great feeling.