Serial, but I need to say WHOOOOOOOOOOT!
From Toni Plummer to my agent:
Matty Groves is currently scheduled to come out in Fall '05 (which we are just launching next week). I believe Ruth has accepted the ms. as is, but I will check with her on Monday.
No edits. As is. No changes, it would appear, other than the occasional dropped comma, misspelled word, line edit from the future pass pages, and whatever changes I might choose to make myself, otherwise.
Bounce. Bouncebounce. Bouncebouncebouncebounce.
And now I can finish up another two chapters on Cruel Sister and pitch it. Yes!
Go deb! You deserve to see '04 out with triumph.
Yay Deb!
t Shakes pompoms. Realizes that she doesn't know any "editor accepted your book" cheers.
Realizes that she doesn't know any "editor accepted your book" cheers.
"Gimme a three! Gimme a B...!"
I just am floored and amused by this stuff. There are writers out there - Anne Rice and Thomas Harris come to mind - who live in the headspace of "no editors shall sully my perfect masterpiece with their greasy fingers! Back! Down! Die! Go!" And here's me, the opposite, perfectly willing to hand a chapter of WIP to some guy cleaning elephant poo at the circus, and beg him to tell me what he thinks will make it better.
Life is very weird.
Yay, Deb! That's fantastic!
Way to go, Deb!
And here's me, the opposite, perfectly willing to hand a chapter of WIP to some guy cleaning elephant poo at the circus, and beg him to tell me what he thinks will make it better.
Uh-huh. And look at how much the quality of Rice's work has plummeted these past few years. You might not be making her big bucks yet, but I'll bet you'll never publish dreck.
In other news, I've written 24 haiku about comic books today. Need to write about that many more before tomorrow. Dear Lord, how do I get myself into these fixes?
