Promising news! It's in an editorial meeting today! Meep.
Of course, it could still get shot down, but hey, someone liked it enough to take to meeting, so I'm counting that as a qualified win.
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.
'Just Rewards (2)'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Amy - Oct 21, 2009 6:35:47 am PDT #2580 of 6690
Because books.
Ginger - Oct 21, 2009 7:36:13 am PDT #2581 of 6690
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Yay! Yay! Yay!
(I was so excited I accidentally celebrated in Beep Me. Oops.)
Gudanov - Oct 21, 2009 7:37:32 am PDT #2582 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Congratulations Barb!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 21, 2009 7:38:30 am PDT #2583 of 6690
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Barb, huge congrats! That sounds amazing!
Amy, sending lots of ~ma for the editorial meeting!
Amy - Oct 21, 2009 7:41:17 am PDT #2584 of 6690
Because books.
Yay, Barb!
Allyson - Oct 21, 2009 7:43:18 am PDT #2585 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'm supposed to hear back from my agent on Friday. I hope all the good news is contagious.
-t - Oct 21, 2009 8:03:03 am PDT #2586 of 6690
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yay, Barb, I'm so happy for you!
I hope so, too, Allyson.
Gudanov - Oct 21, 2009 8:12:24 am PDT #2587 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I hope the good news keeps flowing.
SailAweigh - Oct 21, 2009 8:14:42 am PDT #2588 of 6690
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Good news~ma for everyone! This is really fantastic!
Barb - Oct 21, 2009 9:46:49 am PDT #2589 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
I'm floating away like you would not believe. Lovely agent just forwarded me the official offer and there was this one line from the editor:
"My readers loved this and [publisher] thought it sounded very good. We’d like to build a relationship with her--I think she’d have a lot of freedom here too, to write what she wants to write."
OMG, that made me just absolutely tear up, because it's not that this editor likes this book-- she likes my WRITING and that is a gift above most others.