I got a fan mail this morning.
Awesome. Fun!
I turned around 'Sarah' and sent it off to another place. Well they didn't want the manuscript just a description of the story, so technically I didn't send it off yet.
I picked a market for the other short I'm wanting to send out, but I need to edit it some more first. Maybe this weekend.
I turned around 'Sarah' and sent it off to another place. Well they didn't want the manuscript just a description of the story, so technically I didn't send it off yet.
I picked a market for the other short I'm wanting to send out, but I need to edit it some more first. Maybe this weekend.
Excellent!
Woo-hoo!!
It was nice. I was a little nervous about this story. If you don't subscribe to Daily Science Fiction, it will be up next week on their site and I'll link it.
Fan mail! Fan mail is awesome.
::nods::
I got a fan mail this morning.
Awesome! And well deserved, it's a great story.
I was gonna say I never got one, but that's not true. It's just that the book review I got it for contained kinky crip sex, warm chocolate, and a few other things one might euphemistically call "hot-button"(huh, huh, huh) topics.
One day the fans will love me for me.
I don't get some agents. One I follow on Twitter is SO specific about what kind of stories she likes and what she doesn't -- right now, she's "still not interested in zombies or angels" when it comes to YA.
And I get that, on a personal level, but you're supposed to be looking for AUTHORS, not books. Authors you can keep working with, who can tell a story convincingly no matter what the subject is. And if zombies and angels are selling in YA (I have no idea anymore, just saying), isn't it short-sighted to pass over those books entirely?
She's a little weird.
I haven't gotten fanmail in so long! It's wonderful.
I dealt with a lot of children's editors who didn't want to read books with animals that talk.
You know who REALLY HATES talking animals? Kids. Boy do they...no, wait, they're cool with that.
My impression is that vampires and zombies are neck and neck, so to speak, with anything supernatural right behind.
I could see that nobody wants to read *bad* talking animals, but nobody wants crappy *anything*, do they?