Comments | nanoochka: "Two Tickets to Paradise" giveaway

nanoochka

"Two Tickets to Paradise" giveaway

Mar 16, 2012 11:46

Hello lovelies,

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nicole_sill March 16 2012, 16:04:58 UTC

Woo, me! This is on my to buy list, but since I can't do that from my phone I haven't yet!

Name: nicole_sill
Good work!

quickreaver March 16 2012, 16:27:27 UTC

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Why do you think it'll never be worth anything?? I just heard tell of a Twilight fanficker(sp??) who did what you did (tweaked one of her popular fanfic series), got it published, and is now in (supposed) talks for a movie deal.

Now, what she did was a little different -- yours was an AU, right? -- and hers wasn't. So I'm not quite sure how she got around all the vampire-with-a-student thing (and to be honest, I downloaded a sample via Kindle and IMHO, she's not nearly the writer you are.)

So never poo-poo your worth! Curious things happen every day...

*puts name on list because YOU WILL BE FAMOUS SOME DAY*

QUICKREAVER

(doubleposting because I think I replied in the wrong place the first time. derp.)

nanoochka March 16 2012, 16:51:48 UTC

There are definitely fic writers who have made it BIG - just look at Cassandra Clare - but I think the major difference between them and, say, me, or any of the fabulous proslash writers out there (including those who have converted fic), is the authors who have received mainstream recognition don't write m/m. It's sad to say, but there's really not a place for m/m romance with major publishers yet, and certainly not m/m erotica ( ... )

quickreaver March 16 2012, 17:23:28 UTC

To be perfectly honest, I don't read much in the romance/erotica genre PERIOD - het, slash or otherwise - so I'm not very literate with the writers therein. (Doesn't mean I won't paint the pretty pictures, though! I totally champion the genre.) But there is an obvious unbalance and unfairness that can't be denied. I actually feel it in the cover industry too; romance/erotica cover artists get paid a fraction of what other genres do. It's starting to catch up a tad, but not to a career-building degree. You have to ‘make it’ on quantity, not quality, and that’s sad ( ... )

quickreaver March 16 2012, 17:27:15 UTC

(I posted before I read your edited comment, so let's just say I AGREE 200%.)

slinkymilinky March 16 2012, 17:02:41 UTC

SLINKYMILINKY IS ALL OVER THIS! *oh beautiful book, be mine!*

jukebox_head March 16 2012, 17:19:17 UTC

oh man, I am all over this.
Name: jukebox-head

WELL HELLS YEAH lostakasha March 16 2012, 17:59:31 UTC

Oh, please do enter me ... in your drawing. Um. You know what I mean.

Yay for writers writing.

Re: WELL HELLS YEAH nanoochka March 25 2012, 15:33:32 UTC

Congratulations, you've won!!! I used a random number generator (after assigning everyone a number), and yours was the one that came up. Yay! Do you want to DM me with your contact info so I can mail you the book?