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Yay! Realms of Fantasy isn't closing!
http://sfscope.com/2009/03/realms-of-fantasy-is-not-closi.html
I haven't sent them anything in forever, but they were my first sale so I will always have a yay-spot for them :D
You know, I really SHOULD send them stuff again.
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Sent it off again!
My "query and first 10 pages of the manuscript" have been sent off again.
You know, I realize it's super for the publisher that they don't accept simultaneous subs, but with a 3-6 month turnaround time, that realistically means you're only shopping your manuscript around to like 3 people a year. -
Book adaptations: doing it right, doing it wrong
Interesting weekend. I got to see two movies that were made out of books I really love: Watchmen and Coraline, and got to watch them with a BFF who also loved the source material. And they were pretty much a study in contrasts, not just in style and content and whether or not you should bring your kids to them (yes, I saw many kids that looked 10 ( Read more... ) -
Race and Worldbuilding
In response to the request to stop derailing the discussion of racism and SF/F with discussion of the hurt feelings of white people and how badly they've been behaving. It's really been covered, by people much more intelligent and articulate than I can ever be on the subject. See rydra_wong 's link-up here.
It's been percolating through my head the reason ( Read more... ) -
A little bit of reading
This is seriously one of the most powerful things I've read. And it makes me all the more determined to do what I'm doing as well as I can.
Pam Noles: Shame
Please read.
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First rejection, woo
Well, got my rejection letter back from my first agent query! Yay, it means I'm part of the actual process now! Would be nicer if it wasn't following the worst weekend I can remember since 2004, but hey ( Read more... ) -
Tweaking book 2
Rewrites on Book 2 continuing apace. A lot slower than I got through book 1, though. Mostly because it's not as much fun. Books 2 and 3 are a lot more fun to read, or were anyway, but they need less "real" work to fix. I'm not going through and deleting whole scenes and changing chapter orders and writing out characters this time. I'm just checking ( Read more... ) -
Sequels and descriptions
Bumming around with the first chapter of the second book. The revision process is a little less fun now, because book 2 needs a lot less work than book 1 did, even with all the cultural rebuilding I did. Mostly I'm killing off adverbs and adjectives, simplifying sentences, killing extra phrases that don't need to be there.
One thing bugs me though: ( Read more... ) -
This may possibly be...
the best link ever.
It reminds me of an outline I once made for my books.
Chapter 1: Something Bad happens to Rain and Fire-Eyes
Chapter 2: Something Bad happens to Mika
Chapter 3: Something Bad happens to Liat's family
Chapter 4: Something Bad happens to the King
etc
I think I should sum it up in the spirit of the link though.
Something Bad happens to the ( Read more... ) -
Okay, I lied
I finished book 1 up last night. I did it by being obsessive and staying up until 6am, but once I had the late teen chapters going it seemed like a bad place to stop. Just one more chapter, just one more, and hey! I don't recommend the method, but then I don't really recommend OCD, either. May as well get some use out of it! And James stayed up ( Read more... )