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.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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erikaj - Nov 16, 2011 6:26:05 am PST #4916 of 6735
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
Strix - Nov 16, 2011 7:34:29 am PST #4917 of 6735
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Yes, they will, erika.
Sox! That's fantastic!
Amy - Nov 16, 2011 7:36:47 am PST #4918 of 6735
Because books.
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.
Allyson - Nov 16, 2011 7:42:08 am PST #4919 of 6735
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 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.
Ginger - Nov 16, 2011 7:43:29 am PST #4920 of 6735
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My impression is that vampires and zombies are neck and neck, so to speak, with anything supernatural right behind.
erikaj - Nov 16, 2011 7:44:38 am PST #4921 of 6735
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I could see that nobody wants to read *bad* talking animals, but nobody wants crappy *anything*, do they?
Ginger - Nov 16, 2011 7:46:44 am PST #4922 of 6735
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
After all, there is no tradition of talking animals in children's literature. Oh, wait...
Atropa - Nov 16, 2011 9:10:24 am PST #4923 of 6735
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Sox, congratulations on the fan mail!
hippocampus - Nov 16, 2011 9:30:42 am PST #4924 of 6735
not your mom's socks.
Thanks! It's a first.
You know who REALLY HATES talking animals? Kids. Boy do they...no, wait, they're cool with that.
ahahaha. man. that tea looks so good on my monitor.
Tom Scola - Nov 16, 2011 2:00:44 pm PST #4925 of 6735
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.
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