Good job, you folks!
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
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.
Atropa - Feb 17, 2011 8:04:59 pm PST #4074 of 6724
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Gudanov - Feb 18, 2011 8:17:22 am PST #4075 of 6724
Coding and Sleeping
...and I got my first rejection. That was fast.
Amy - Feb 18, 2011 8:44:30 am PST #4076 of 6724
Because books.
Yikes. Was that the story or the agent query?
Remember, when rejections are really quick, it sometimes means they're simply over-inventoried.
Gudanov - Feb 18, 2011 8:47:35 am PST #4077 of 6724
Coding and Sleeping
That was the agent query. I'd be surprised if I have any success, I don't have any credentials, it's a pretty tepid subgenre, and I don't think the story pitches especially well. But still a better chance than not trying.
erikaj - Feb 18, 2011 8:54:00 am PST #4078 of 6724
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
"Pursue any goal, seek any job, ask anyone out...there are thousands of people to tell you you are not good enough, but do not do their work for them...if they say no, they may not be smart enough to say yes." --Keith Olbermann (One day I'll live this, instead of typing it.)
Amy - Feb 18, 2011 8:54:51 am PST #4079 of 6724
Because books.
You've earned your first merit badge, Gud. Hold onto it. And keep sending.
Barb - Feb 18, 2011 9:34:10 am PST #4080 of 6724
“Not dead yet!”
Better a fast rejection than the policy that some agents have adopted of "no answer is the same as a rejection," especially when it comes to email queries. Unless they have an autoresponse in place that lets the sender know the query was received, then you have no way of knowing whether it's a rejection or they never got the query in the first place.
I still have some non-responses from when I was querying agents two years ago. It's bad practice, IMO.
But still.... a R sucks, but you did something most people don't have the guts to do, Gud, so keep going. Like Amy said, you've earned your first merit badge.
hippocampus - Feb 18, 2011 10:35:01 am PST #4081 of 6724
not your mom's socks.
that stinks Gud - boomerang that baby back out!
Barb - Feb 18, 2011 10:55:33 am PST #4082 of 6724
“Not dead yet!”
I'll join you on the R bench, Gud. Just heard from my editor that she's passing on my ghost YA proposal. It's too ethereal for her. I know, I know... ghost story, but she likes more grounded in reality stories and this one, while fairly straightforward as ghost stories go, is a bit much for her.
It's disappointing on the one hand, but on the other, it's kind of exciting because now it's going to go out on a wider submission and my agent knows of at least 5-6 editors who are looking for ghost YA. So... once more unto the breach, my friends.
Amy - Feb 18, 2011 11:02:03 am PST #4083 of 6724
Because books.
Aw, I'm sorry, Barb. But I'm glad it's going out to some other editors.