Deb, I don't think I've told you just how excited I am for you. The cover looks wonderful, and I'm so jazzed that you have a series!!
Go, team Deb!!!
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Strix - Oct 15, 2003 8:46:57 am PDT #2246 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Toddson - Oct 15, 2003 8:57:45 am PDT #2247 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Deb - just catching up. Congratulations on your sales and that cover is just ELEGANT.
victor infante - Oct 15, 2003 9:10:39 am PDT #2248 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Aforementioned poem, now called "American Love Song," is up on the LJ. (ocvictor.)
Maybe I can keep back at it. In between the novel and the magazine and the real job and...
Why do I do this to myself again?
deborah grabien - Oct 15, 2003 9:31:28 am PDT #2249 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Why do I do this to myself again?
Because nature has not provided you with the "say no to writing" gene?
Thanks, all. Now to keep extremities crossed for profitable negotations between agent and publisher next week. What Jenn (agent) really wants is a three-book deal, which would mean full advance right now on "Famous Flower of Serving Men", a partial on "Matty Groves" (probably half, since the book is 2/3 done and Ruth knows I don't not finish), and a nominal "option reserve" amount for the as-yet-unstarted fourth book, "Cruel Sister".
That deal would be ideal, and would certainly add an extra kick to the Halloween F2F. Champers for all! Really, really good mimosas.
Also, I am vibing reallyreallyreally hard for Linda Marrow to read "Still Life With Devils" and remember just why she loved my writing voice so much, all those years ago. Because if she buys it, there's a damned good chance that "The Eden Tree" - my collaboration - would be a Random House/Ballantine buy, as well.
Vibevibevibevibe
smonster - Oct 15, 2003 10:20:05 am PDT #2250 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Over here for the first time, and Deb, I am astounded. You are, indeed, more faboo (/wakko) than I ever imagined. So excited for you.
deborah grabien - Oct 15, 2003 10:45:57 am PDT #2251 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(tries to curtsey)
(trips and falls and says rude words)
erikaj - Oct 15, 2003 2:18:32 pm PDT #2252 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Smooth move, Ex-Lax. :)
deborah grabien - Oct 15, 2003 2:51:44 pm PDT #2253 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(launches entire baggie full of horrible slimy newts' eyes at erika)
erikaj - Oct 15, 2003 3:50:34 pm PDT #2254 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Ew. It's funny Tim thinks they're gross, though. Look at what he sees... and that's worse? Whatever. If I were him, I might find eye of newt restful.(But he really did that, in my favorite ep evah, with "If she was so wonderful, what was she doing working in a dump like this?" discounting his own job in a little box with killers)
deborah grabien - Oct 15, 2003 9:15:46 pm PDT #2255 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
OK. Susan (continued from Bitches), here's the one I knocked off - with input from writers group - for The Eden Tree:
The Eden Tree (Synopsis)
When Dr. Lucy Berne, agricultural expert and botanist, sets out to create the ultimate garden, she has no idea what she's about to unleash.
Earth is a clean place to live. The sky sparkles, rivers run clear to the sea, automobile emissions no longer foul the air or clog the lungs. Acid rain, oil slicks, toxic waste dumps - all these things are unpleasant memories.
Man has also gone to the stars. And while they're exploring, settling, colonising, someone needs to feed them.
Dr. Berne has gathered the elite of the environmental science community to create the BioDome, a garden in space. In her vision of this new Eden, thousands of acres of carefully monitored and strictly regulated plants and trees will thrive and flourish, bringing the full beauty of Earth's bounty to the ends of the galaxy.
The Eden crew is granted full rights to an abandoned mining operation on a moon circling a world eleven light years from Earth. The dome that Lucy wants is already in place, and Harvey Stemplette, Lucy's colleague and friend, has created a device that can safely move live flora from world to world. Everything seems in place for the realisation of Lucy's dream. Even the unwelcome addition of her estranged husband, Dr. Richard Lucas, to the team, can't put a damper on her jubilation.
The Eden crew brings with them from Earth a visible symbol of their enterprise: an ancient fig tree, growing in Greece. Even before the tree is fully removed from its rich loamy soil, however, strange things begin to happen. And Lucy begins to understand that they have uprooted something greater: the powerful spirit who lives within the tree, and whose sole purpose for two thousand years has been to protect it, has been aroused from a long sleep, and is waking under an alien sun.
The Eden Tree looks at the consequences humanity must be willing to face as we confront aspects of Nature we can't fully understand.
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A hook, a precis of the setting and why we should care, a summing up. It's not a breakdown of the plot from A - Z.