How The Food Chain Works?

[dr_pretentious]

Now that the ghost tour story is up at Baen's Universe, I'm querying new agents about the Big Book again. It turns out one good way of coping with slush pile anxiety is to have a slush pile of one's own.

Maybe next incarnation I'll be a better person. Meanwhile, as far short of bodhisattvahood as I am, I admit to indulging in schadenfreude. No matter what the agents think of my query, I bet I've got a couple of manuscripts in my own slush pile that appeal to me less.

I'd like to imagine I've targeted the queries correctly this time. One of the agents is specifically looking for sprawling, Dickensian books. Sprawl is one thing the Big Book has covered.

Comments

[kistha.livejournal.com]

*gentle nudge* I would like to get an electronic copy of the Big Book so that I can read it on my Kindle please.

In other news, fingers crossed on the querying, luck still going to the family for the radiation to work, and a mental note to self to read the Ghost Tour!

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Hurray! Dickensonian science fiction is the bomb, and yours is the best of sci-fi bombs.

Picking up books at the library

[amushink.livejournal.com]

often makes me bang my head. THIS got published? And your book has not? You have sentence structure! And characters! A plot, even!

who wants big fat sprawling novels?

[pjalama.livejournal.com]

Someone actually wants big novels??? That's encouraging. Everyone has been telling me that thin is in. For books, that is.
Pauline

Re: who wants big fat sprawling novels?

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Ultimately, she rejected my query by non-response, which her website said was their standard mode of rejection if I didn't hear back within 8 weeks. Would have been nice to know anything specific about why, but so it goes.