O Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay!

[dr_pretentious]

It's a good day here in Averyland.

The agent wants to see a longer partial of Spires of Beltresa, and it sounds like she anticipates asking for the full eventually. Quite reasonably, she's not quite ready to commit to reading all 900+ pages until she's seen a little more. Who wouldn't be daunted by the bulk of the Big Book? I certainly would be.

The editor of a magazine I thought I'd never hear back from has asked for a revision to the short story that got me started on Traitor of Imlen, and he wants to see anything else I might have. Well, now I know what I'm bringing to the writing group meeting on Sunday.

Okay, the key's in the ignition, and the engine sounds like it's turning over. Maybe this time I'll get the car to move.

Comments

[red-haired-girl.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! Congratulations!!!

(course, if you're ever in need for a GD/Illustrator for your books...)

Pix

[tracyandrook.livejournal.com]

Why wait?

Re: Pix

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Publishers like to do the matchmaking themselves for illustrations and design. They use a lot of their arbitrary preferences as knowledge tests to separate people they think are ready to work on a professional level from people they think aren't. One of the fastest ways to get dismissed by a publisher is to say, "And my friend did these fabulous illustrations." It seems unfair, really, since the illustrations might well be fabulous, and plenty of the cover art being produced by professionals in the genre is really trashy and will age badly. But what can you do? The gatekeepers make the rules.

Re: Pix

[tracyandrook.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't thinking of making pix to publish, per se. Just, if you want to make a picture, make one, that's all.
But from your description I understand the conspiracy of publishers to make sure illustrators and writers remain separated. The publisher, who supposedly knows what will sell books, doles out the assignments. Little red ostriches on the covers of Tolkien's books (?)I remember.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS!

And, of course, best of luck!

[thecrimsony.livejournal.com]

Woooo!!!

[dthon.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

-Dthon

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

YesyesyesyesyesyesyesYES!

[kistha.livejournal.com]

*dancesthehappydanceofjoy*


Go! GO! GO!!!!!

Congratulations, I hope things work out for the best~ meaning publication of course.

[annathepiper]

Woot! Go Sarah go! :) I'll have my fingers crossed for you!

[tracyandrook.livejournal.com]

YAY YAY Good luck for it, good luck,

[jasminewind.livejournal.com]

That's really awesome Dr. P. Not that I'm shocked, I love reading your stuff!

[awritersweekend.livejournal.com]

Oh, so this is the goodness! I must read LJ every day or I miss stuff!
This is really good. REALLY GOOD.

Mmm, Monster Like Big Books

[violet-moon25.livejournal.com]

I am completely undaunted by your book and its word count. I am sure it weighs less than my toddler. As a voracious and slightly obsessive reader I have been know to devour books of over 1000 pages in less than a week--and that was in middle school. So bring it on. I'll even write comments in the margins. But congrads in getting a professional interested.