ok .. Hi Deb ! Well it would be really cool if you would read some of my stuff! On the site there is mostly just summaries on the stuff i´m working on now ( and old stuff) . When you want to read one of the current ones .. just tell me and i´ll send it to you ... or when you have a lj go here [link] thankies
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Kessie - Mar 09, 2004 10:05:03 am PST #3474 of 10001
The thing about life is :You can rehearse it all you want,
But nobody else ever sticks to the script. So why bother?
deborah grabien - Mar 09, 2004 12:00:29 pm PST #3475 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
So, can I get takes from those of you who have read Still Life?
My agent just heard back from Linda Marrow (head honcha at Random House) - she'd demanded and got an exclusive submission, which meant no one else was looking at it. Took her five months to decide, but she's passing. She said, and I quote, "...talented and gifted, and demonstrated your gift for portraying intelligent, appealing characters. But she felt let down at the end of the story. She said the ending just didn't work for her -- it was too abstract and surreal and the rules of the alternate universe weren't communicated well to the reader."
Which, personally, tells me that she was looking at it as entirely a diferent kind of book, since there aint no stinking alternate universe; that's the point. Everywhere you can travel is part of your reality. The danger in SLWD isn't from alternate realities to the One true Universe; it's posed by being dragged into someone else's reality, under the mistaken impression you can control things.
IOW? This isn't a science fiction novel; it's a basic supernatural police procedural with memorable characters and my usual morality play as the not so subtle subtext.
So what I want to know is, did anyone else want or expect a different ending? Because Jenn flatly disagrees with her, and so do I.
But feedback is good.
So it's about to be on its way (finally!) to Amy Einhorn at Warner, John Morgan at Berkeley, and Christina Boys at Pocket (Linda Marrow's old house, back when the earth was still cooling). We shall see.
erikaj - Mar 09, 2004 12:02:41 pm PST #3476 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I have to read that now.
deborah grabien - Mar 09, 2004 12:05:51 pm PST #3477 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
erika, haven't you? Want me to send it as a word doc?
erikaj - Mar 09, 2004 12:16:36 pm PST #3478 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
No, I haven't read it. Yes, I want to.
Kessie - Mar 09, 2004 12:25:35 pm PST #3479 of 10001
The thing about life is :You can rehearse it all you want,
But nobody else ever sticks to the script. So why bother?
Deb : Can i read ,too? It sounds very interesting ...
erikaj - Mar 09, 2004 1:16:47 pm PST #3480 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Kessie, have you visited Fic yet? And I ask that not only out of my own attention-seeking(much) but because I noticed y'all write Buffy and Angel, and um, that's where we talk about that kind of writing. And I'm big with the self-pimping too. But you'll probably like my stuff better if you've watched Homicide...which I'm not sure if it got where you are.
Deena - Mar 09, 2004 1:21:50 pm PST #3481 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Deb, I can't imagine a different ending. Really, that just doesn't seem right. I'm not firing on all cylinders today, so I can't seem to find the words I want, but the ending was right.
erikaj - Mar 09, 2004 1:24:49 pm PST #3482 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
God, I'm sorry...did you want my opinion, like, yesterday? In that case, best go read.
Kessie - Mar 09, 2004 1:32:42 pm PST #3483 of 10001
The thing about life is :You can rehearse it all you want,
But nobody else ever sticks to the script. So why bother?
Erika: yup i know there are also Buffy and Angel scripts up there ... thats the old stuff i meant ... but i´m currently writing on Colors , which is a TV Series and friend and me invented and on a sci fi book which still has no name... there are only summaries up on that site so far . but they are posted in my lj ... anyway sure i´ll come over, too ! Cause i still have a story for an Angel script in my head *g*
Oh and be warned to take the writers scripts not serious ... just in case anyone should do that !