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Deena - Oct 29, 2003 9:13:13 am PST #2523 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

My creative writing teacher at Tulsa University was their Visiting Poet from Ireland. I don't really know what that means, other than that he took great pride in it and it was in caps whenever he said it. He tried to get a poem published in the New Yorker for about 10 years and finally gave up. Then, the year he taught my class, they wrote and asked him for one because he'd hit someone's list somewhere. He thought that was pretty funny, but, of course, sent it. He workshopped it in our class. I have no clue if it actually got published or not. I should maybe check on that.

eta: Betsy, I sent the info on the YA novel to Greg. He'll talk it up to the buyers for the YA section. It can't hurt and might help.

deborah grabien - Oct 29, 2003 9:26:02 am PST #2524 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Wheeee! Just spoke with Ed Kaufman at M is for Mystery, and we have a booklaunch party date and time.

I'll post it up later. Happy!

Betsy HP - Oct 29, 2003 9:34:57 am PST #2525 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

I don't really know what that means, other than that he took great pride in it and it was in caps whenever he said it. He tried to get a poem published in the New Yorker for about 10 years and finally gave up. Then, the year he taught my class, they wrote and asked him for one because he'd hit someone's list somewhere.

That's pretty much what I'd heard -- getting attention from the New Yorker poetry editors is a lost cause until you're a big name elsewhere. It's like trying to get tenure in the humanities in Harvard -- they hire other people's successes, they don't tenure their own.

erikaj - Oct 29, 2003 9:39:24 am PST #2526 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Garrison Keillor says he wrote for the New Yorker for a long time before they knew about it.

Susan W. - Oct 29, 2003 12:13:35 pm PST #2527 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Go deb with the series and the getting the contract you want!

Astarte - Oct 29, 2003 12:15:39 pm PST #2528 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.

Woo with a double side of Hoo, Deb!!!

Beverly - Oct 29, 2003 12:17:41 pm PST #2529 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Oh, heyeah! on the no-joint-accountingness, Deb! In the parlance of the folk I live among, YyeeHAAAWW!

Consuela - Oct 29, 2003 12:50:38 pm PST #2530 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Rock on, Deb! Congratulations.

deborah grabien - Oct 29, 2003 2:02:54 pm PST #2531 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

The party at my place tonight - not to mention the one Saturday - is going to be extra-happy now.

So pleased. So incredibly pleased.

Betsy HP - Oct 29, 2003 2:59:40 pm PST #2532 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Earlier this Fall, the New Yorker made it official, by putting "WE DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS" in the indicia. Then they pulled it; one suspects the underlying attitude remains.

[link]

(Read the horrifying Fox News story, then scroll down to "Time to update teh site's fine print")

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