Writer Beware ( [link] ) and SFWA are both calling out Random House's Hydra imprint. Scalzi has it too ( [link] ).
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
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.
hippocampus - Mar 06, 2013 12:14:45 pm PST #5592 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2013 9:41:45 am PST #5593 of 6690
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's also apparently being critiqued by Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing.
hippocampus - Mar 08, 2013 9:57:31 am PST #5594 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
Random House replied and the letter has been "translated" by Jeremiah Tolbert: [link]
Amy - Mar 08, 2013 9:59:31 am PST #5595 of 6690
Because books.
"We hired someone from the record industry, and we were astonished to learn that you could fuck over writers in ways we never even imagined. So we immediately set about setting up an imprint where we could dick over writers like record companies have been screwing over musicans for years."
Heh. Not that it's funny.
hippocampus - Mar 12, 2013 4:56:38 am PDT #5596 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
Random House Hydra, Alibi, and Flirt contract update: [link]
Typo Boy - Mar 19, 2013 3:09:31 pm PDT #5597 of 6690
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Have now read two of the recmmended books. Watt's 90 day novel and Second Sight by Cheryl Klein are still on order.
Of the two I've read: So far, Nancy Kress seems to be directly addressing my particular writing flaws. Different people have different problems Nancy Kress's "Beginning Middles and Ends " really helped me.
Maas's "Breakout Novel" annoys me by spending a lot of time trying to sell you on his techniques. Yeah I know I need to improve or I would not be reading your book, Skip the sales pitch and get to the advice already. Also he tells me a lot less that I did not already know than Kress does.
Again personal reactions. Someone else with different writing flaws might find Maas very helpful and Kress less so.
Now that I know some of what I need to do, time to find out if I can actually do it
hippocampus - Mar 20, 2013 2:39:42 pm PDT #5598 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
Querying. Sucks. I have fulls and partials out. It. still. Sucks.
Gudanov - Mar 20, 2013 4:05:48 pm PDT #5599 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Having fulls out is good news! But, yeah, querying still sucks.
JZ - Mar 23, 2013 11:31:42 am PDT #5600 of 6690
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Many many vibes for the fulls and partials, and that the results of the sucky querying not suck.
Next couple of installments have been posted on LJ; at 14,000 words so far I guess it's not exactly a drabble anymore. Any comments are welcome - I definitely had to push myself past a self-sabotaging bout of you didn't write for two days, which proves you fail and will always fail so why not just stop? and still feel very doubtful. But whether it's any good or not, at least it's going forward.
Beverly - Mar 23, 2013 3:02:27 pm PDT #5601 of 6690
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
JZ, check your profile addy, please ma'am.
Fingers crossed on all the subs.