Suspense, Day 8? Day 1?
Mar. 6th, 2006 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_pretentiousAfter a week with no response, I finally decided to make sure the email address the Shiny Young Agent was using when she set out to start her own agency was still current. I'd updated my address book when she left the Venerable Agency where she'd been working when I first met her, but I hadn't updated it since she got the infrastructure in her new office up and running. Lo and behold, a new email address on a new website.
Once I pinged her at her new address, she got back to me with an update within 12 hours. Given the glacial pace of the publishing industry in general, and the kinds of delays that individuals in gatekeeper positions can get away with as a result, a 12-hour response time is downright impressive.
So here's the word: She just got the ms back from two readers, and reading it herself is on her docket for next week.
My wild speculations on the basis of this tiny bit of information: If two readers have read it and told her what they thought of it, and she's still planning on making time in her schedule to read it herself, then the readers can't have thought the ms sucked too badly. After all, why would she have readers, if not to cull the pile and protect her own time? So, two people whose job it was to say no have not said no. Whoever they are, I wish them a spring full of crocuses.
Once I pinged her at her new address, she got back to me with an update within 12 hours. Given the glacial pace of the publishing industry in general, and the kinds of delays that individuals in gatekeeper positions can get away with as a result, a 12-hour response time is downright impressive.
So here's the word: She just got the ms back from two readers, and reading it herself is on her docket for next week.
My wild speculations on the basis of this tiny bit of information: If two readers have read it and told her what they thought of it, and she's still planning on making time in her schedule to read it herself, then the readers can't have thought the ms sucked too badly. After all, why would she have readers, if not to cull the pile and protect her own time? So, two people whose job it was to say no have not said no. Whoever they are, I wish them a spring full of crocuses.
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Date: 2006-03-06 08:06 pm (UTC)Also, some Terrible Things happen to beloved characters near the end of Vol 1. The end of the vol kept poor
That's not too spoilery, is it? I mean, you knew Mathnal was going to do some Terrible Things to people before the curtain fell.
Actually, some of the most useful suggestions I got on that first draft were from someone who wasn't all that sure he liked it.
Oh, and speaking of which, I've been meaning to thank you for your notes on "Atlantis Cranks." I'm letting them simmer in the brain for a bit. If the folks who currently have the ms take a pass on it, I'll give it another round of revision with those things in mind.
How's the convalescence going? Hope you're feeling better.