Go, Betsy, with the submitting.
Boo EBWC for not recognizing gold when they had it in their inkstained hands.
Spike: Or maybe Captain Forehead was feeling a little less special. Didn't like me crashing his exclusive club, another vampire with a soul in the world. Angel: You're not in the world, Casper.
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A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Astarte - Mar 19, 2004 10:59:25 am PST #3620 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
deborah grabien - Mar 19, 2004 11:06:50 am PST #3621 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Well, hell. Whoever did place had better be pure platinum.
Deena - Mar 19, 2004 8:32:56 pm PST #3622 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Definitely go you, Betsy. That's a tough thing to do.
Deb, insent.
deborah grabien - Mar 19, 2004 9:39:48 pm PST #3623 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Deena, received. And you're astonishing, you know that?
Wow.
Betsy HP - Mar 22, 2004 10:46:47 am PST #3624 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
The whiniest writer -- excuse me, author -- of all time.
Lyra Jane - Mar 22, 2004 10:54:21 am PST #3625 of 10001
Up with the sun
I saw that too, Betsy.
If the article is written in a similar style to her books? I can see why they don't sell well. Too many gewgaws and frills, too little actually said, and I hate that she spent a third of a three-page article saying, basically, "This is what I am going to talk about."
Betsy HP - Mar 22, 2004 10:57:25 am PST #3626 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Honey, many, many great writers had a day job. There is no law saying that a great book will be a profitable book. Your agent is right. Suck it up and deal.
erikaj - Mar 22, 2004 10:58:16 am PST #3627 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
playing world's tiniest violin for this person.
P.M. Marc - Mar 22, 2004 10:59:57 am PST #3628 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Huh.
I was more than a little sympathetic towards her. I'm a little shocked at the pile-on here.
Betsy HP - Mar 22, 2004 11:08:09 am PST #3629 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
My anger is at the sense of entitlement -- she appears to feel that she has a right not only to write great books but to earn a living wage from them. Hundreds of great writers haven't. She talks about earning a day job the way that Alice Adams does -- as the ultimate degradation. And she says she can't write without the dream of making the New York Times bestseller list.
Don't get me wrong, I have that fantasy, too. But it isn't why I write, and I don't expect it as my due.