tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post5147633067548625220..comments2024-03-28T06:16:39.508+00:00Comments on Help! I Need a Publisher!: MORE ON OTHER WRITERS GETTING THERE FIRSTNicola Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12189894289540344094noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-54293238194580870722010-03-07T22:23:55.007+00:002010-03-07T22:23:55.007+00:00This stuff is hilarious. Its wicked, and clever an...This stuff is hilarious. Its wicked, and clever and sharp - and to date, no one else has done it with aliens...I'll rephrase that - Jon is the first to 'do' Austen plus aliens at the same time...<br /><br />er. I think I shall just shut up now.Vanessa Gebbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00833187671441310234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-43252797298130799142010-03-07T22:18:14.323+00:002010-03-07T22:18:14.323+00:00I loved the trailer and not just because it had Co...I loved the trailer and not just because it had Colin Firth in it. <br /><br />I had a fantastic idea for a short story a while ago. I was quite convinced of its brilliance and uniqueness. I wrote the story really quickly and sent it off with my heart in my mouth in case someone else had come up with the same idea in the meantime and it would hit the fiction editor's desk before mine. <br /HelenMWaltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16182100572365505905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-62864740759819454242010-03-07T19:49:52.646+00:002010-03-07T19:49:52.646+00:00That trailer is so bad that yes, it does just scra...That trailer is so bad that yes, it does just scrape by as fab.Thomas Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12987047131104943571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-27910171844815071452010-03-07T18:59:21.835+00:002010-03-07T18:59:21.835+00:00Jo - re whether your genre / sub-genre is "in...Jo - re whether your genre / sub-genre is "in" at the moment: I am rapidly coming to the comclusion that any agent's opinion on this directly and exclusively reflects what the last publisher to reject a client's work said... These views seem to change so quickly and to contradict the views of others.<br /><br />However, a commenter on the other post said something about putting Nicola Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12189894289540344094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-2158408601148801912010-03-07T16:09:50.594+00:002010-03-07T16:09:50.594+00:00I'm also a firm believer that you make an idea...I'm also a firm believer that you make an idea your own. After all, a novel takes so long to write and the ideas change so much along the way as they gradually draw together to make a coherent piece. <br /><br />Like you I've got a high-concept idea jumping up and down in my brain with its hand up - and am in dread of someone else doing it first! I wish it didn't take so long to get Roz Morris aka @Roz_Morris . Blog: Nail Your Novelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088813423467048081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-28662736526597086162010-03-07T14:28:17.787+00:002010-03-07T14:28:17.787+00:00On the topic of writers who get there first, I dis...On the topic of writers who get there first, I discovered shortly after my dystopian YA was bought by Scholastic ( pub date fall 2011) that the YA dystopian genre was over and done with. Finito. This according to big agent. It cast me into gloom. Tow rite a book from your heart and then only find out that it is a sub- genre but also an exhausted one is awful.<br />However my agent told me to snapJo Treggiarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02417288480274268189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-72197091614921793132010-03-07T14:23:45.389+00:002010-03-07T14:23:45.389+00:00Loved the trailer! It made me laugh out loud which...Loved the trailer! It made me laugh out loud which is significant because I am sick as a dog and miserable today.<br />Inspired to add the franglais!<br />"Chateaubriand aves frites!"<br />Thanks, I'm following jonathan now and reading the serial.Jo Treggiarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02417288480274268189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-41615827215754178412010-03-07T13:53:59.152+00:002010-03-07T13:53:59.152+00:00"Prithee thee fair Zog the Elder, why dost th..."Prithee thee fair Zog the Elder, why dost thou glow so?" ;-)<br /><br />Mrs Darcy vs The Aliens sounds great fun; not my cup of tea but I can see that there's a market for it. In fact, I think this type of writing has even been given its own genre name? Can't remember what that is though!<br /><br />More underlining of "not what you write, but how it's written" inDavid John Griffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01524610087056533062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-16172572898081652972010-03-07T12:51:08.067+00:002010-03-07T12:51:08.067+00:00That trailer was awesome. I had to watch it twice!...That trailer was awesome. I had to watch it twice!! Thanks for the link.<br /><br />I hope your high concept idea pans out. I agree, we can always do things differently, but it really is nice if we think of something new. I'm pretty sure my high concept idea hasn't been used--that Aristotle's ethos, logos, and pathos, have become embodied in his descendants as super powers--and that Mary Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14381578745894421730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-44650458381425396942010-03-07T11:39:07.147+00:002010-03-07T11:39:07.147+00:00Gosh. Wow. What can I say? Thank you so much for m...Gosh. Wow. What can I say? Thank you so much for mentioning this, Nicola! I really am lost for words.jonathan pinnockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17865393294059636207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-61021353826090589812010-03-07T11:01:05.598+00:002010-03-07T11:01:05.598+00:00Looks like something I can read right from the beg...Looks like something I can read right from the beginning :)Jesse Owenhttp://www.books4teens.co.uknoreply@blogger.com