Nicola Morgan, the Crabbit Old Bat, is an award-winning author of around 90 books across many genres. For the last few years, she has given crabbitly honest advice to determined writers, here and in her books, WRITE TO BE PUBLISHED, WRITE A GREAT SYNOPSIS, DEAR AGENT and TWEET RIGHT. She will soon stop, to focus on writing real books for children, but the advice remains. Heed it!
That is a bit confusing, but I figure they were just pigenholing you as 'writer thus likely to be published by ____" and Mills & Boon was the first publishing house they thought of.
there are a lot of stoopid folk out there. I worked in a book shop a few years back. Lady approached me with a book in her hand and asked me - see if I want to buy a book do I just bring it up to the till? A thousand sarcastic answers bounced on the tip of my tongue, but all I could do was nod.
whoops - sorry, that comment just slipped out. Not meaning to malign 'Mills and Boons' or writers (or readers) thereof. It is like whistling into a tornado - sometimes a tornado with fingers in its ears going La,la,la,la,la,la,la...
Ha. I once was asked what my then-boyfriend did for a living, by an acquaintance who had studiously ignored him at a couple of functions. When I said that said ex was a writer, the acquaintance replied, "Oh! I'd have spoken to him if I'd have known he was interesting!"
I suppose I should be grateful that the acquaintance was speaking to me. It proved something, I suppose.
Of course your life has a point Nicola! It is to save cats like me from clawing the furniture out of sheer boredom. (I once looked at one of those pink paperbacks while waiting for an elderly lady and did not get to the end of the first page.)
I have loads of friends who write Mills & Boon and I love reading them. They're not really aimed at teenagers - although they are publishing some titles in a new YA line but that's pretty recent.
Plus, you're saying your co-talker hasn't heard of Stephenie Meyer, which tells me he/she knows absolutely squat about books.
If he/she had even walked past a bookshop in the past three years they would know the name.
It's a dad fact that 99% of the population know knowing about books or writing. Whenever, at parties, am forced to mention that I write, the next question is always, 'should I have heard of you?'
Fortunately I like my wine too much to tip it over the heads of idiots.
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That is a bit confusing, but I figure they were just pigenholing you as 'writer thus likely to be published by ____" and Mills & Boon was the first publishing house they thought of.
there are a lot of stoopid folk out there. I worked in a book shop a few years back. Lady approached me with a book in her hand and asked me - see if I want to buy a book do I just bring it up to the till?
A thousand sarcastic answers bounced on the tip of my tongue, but all I could do was nod.
LOLOL. Blame Stephenie Meyer for turning YA into romantic fiction!
did they have opposable thumbs?
whoops - sorry, that comment just slipped out. Not meaning to malign 'Mills and Boons' or writers (or readers) thereof. It is like whistling into a tornado - sometimes a tornado with fingers in its ears going La,la,la,la,la,la,la...
Michael - good god! I laughed out loud at that one! Do you think she went away thinking "god that was a stupid thing I just said"?
Melinda - I don't know: it was a phone conversation, but you could have something there!
Donna - no, this person had not heard of Stephanie Meyer, trust me!
Ha. I once was asked what my then-boyfriend did for a living, by an acquaintance who had studiously ignored him at a couple of functions. When I said that said ex was a writer, the acquaintance replied, "Oh! I'd have spoken to him if I'd have known he was interesting!"
I suppose I should be grateful that the acquaintance was speaking to me. It proved something, I suppose.
Jane - you posted at the same time as me so I looked as though I was ignoring you. Course I wasn't.
People are weird. But we are completely normal
Of course you weren't ignoring me, Morgan: that would be impossible. You were just TRYING to, that's all.
Of course your life has a point Nicola! It is to save cats like me from clawing the furniture out of sheer boredom. (I once looked at one of those pink paperbacks while waiting for an elderly lady and did not get to the end of the first page.)
Ok, now that I've stopped laughing . . . .
I have loads of friends who write Mills & Boon and I love reading them. They're not really aimed at teenagers - although they are publishing some titles in a new YA line but that's pretty recent.
Plus, you're saying your co-talker hasn't heard of Stephenie Meyer, which tells me he/she knows absolutely squat about books.
If he/she had even walked past a bookshop in the past three years they would know the name.
It's a dad fact that 99% of the population know knowing about books or writing. Whenever, at parties, am forced to mention that I write, the next question is always, 'should I have heard of you?'
Fortunately I like my wine too much to tip it over the heads of idiots.
I give up. Pass me the pot.
Or a 'sad' fact, even.
Sorry, I've only had one coffee so fat this morning.
Sally, pot? What are you suggesting?? Oh, COFFEE! that's ok then. Yes, I think you need some!
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