Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!

Xander ,'Chosen'


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.


Barb - May 11, 2011 7:50:03 am PDT #4361 of 6718
“Not dead yet!”

S'okay, Amy-- it wasn't harsh, just honest, as you said. I can see how on the surface, it might appear as if I put more of a premium on writing for the adult market and that I somehow devalue writing the YA which isn't the case at all. I was surprised by how much I enjoy writing YA and God knows, it's been the more open genre lately, with the adult market taking a lot of its cues from what's happening in YA, but truth is, I've never felt completely at home there. Or maybe it's just been that I feel somewhat incomplete or unfulfilled because it's only part of what I can do and my frustration grew when it seemed like all editors wanted to see from me was my YA. I was to a point last summer where I regretted ever having sold a YA because it seemed as if it colored editors' opinions of my abilities.

Which is ridiculous, I know, but tell that to the emotional crazy brain.

My brain, it has been SUCH a fun place lately.

On to a different subject, when are you going to be at BEA?


Amy - May 11, 2011 10:16:55 am PDT #4362 of 6718
Because books.

I'll be there on the 25th, Barb, just for the day.

Sox, I meant to say thank you for the kind words, too. I'm glad it's not Twilight, yeah, but that doesn't mean the readership will be.


Barb - May 11, 2011 10:19:39 am PDT #4363 of 6718
“Not dead yet!”

I'll be there on the 25th, Barb, just for the day.

Crap-- my mother's going to be in town and I have to dance attendance but you're going to be at RWA, too, right?


Amy - May 11, 2011 10:20:46 am PDT #4364 of 6718
Because books.

Yeah, I'll be there, too.


Holli - May 13, 2011 4:37:00 am PDT #4365 of 6718
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

So, my short story "Sleep and Wake" is going to be published in The View From Here literary magazine.

I am kind of freaking out, a little.


erikaj - May 13, 2011 4:45:49 am PDT #4366 of 6718
Always Anti-fascist!

Good for you, Holli!


Barb - May 13, 2011 5:00:36 am PDT #4367 of 6718
“Not dead yet!”

Congrats, Holli!!


hippocampus - May 13, 2011 5:41:47 am PDT #4368 of 6718
not your mom's socks.

Awesome Holli!


-t - May 13, 2011 5:55:28 am PDT #4369 of 6718
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Congrats, Holli! I love that story.


Amy - May 13, 2011 6:13:19 am PDT #4370 of 6718
Because books.

So cool, Holli!