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!
Spike: You pissed in the Big Man's Chair? That's fantastic! Gunn: Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy? Spike: What, the Lorne thing? Worn off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.
'Life of the Party'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
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.
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.
(Read the horrifying Fox News story, then scroll down to "Time to update teh site's fine print")
Susan W. - Oct 29, 2003 8:32:56 pm PST #2533 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Nitty-gritty manuscript submission questions:
DH thinks I should just print out one copy on our (hopefully) trusty inkjet, and then make copies as needed for the submission and partials. He thinks copies will be better because they won't smudge so much if something is spilled on them, plus that way we use slightly less of our toner and more of Kinko's. I'm afraid they'll make me look like I'm mass producing this thing and submitting it to all the world at once instead of following the proper protocols. Who's right, or does it matter?
Any ideas for where to get a box the right size for shipping close to a ream of paper? Only idea I had was to hope the post office had something about the right size. And how do you secure it together? I don't think they make binder clips that size.