tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post6955913590889954153..comments2024-03-29T07:43:01.003+00:00Comments on Help! I Need a Publisher!: BUT CAN YOU WAIT FOR HEAVEN?Nicola Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12189894289540344094noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-81415283166600216202009-10-25T07:26:03.910+00:002009-10-25T07:26:03.910+00:00Emma - indeed, we can't avoid it. Though act...Emma - indeed, we can't avoid it. Though actually, I usually don't read from my books: I talk and tell the stories behind the stories. Once, (only once) I read the first chapter of Fleshmarket aloud and someone fainted, which was incredibly annoying because it ruined my flow! Though it was rather cool... My latest book I actually do read 3 short bits from, simply because it happens to Nicola Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12189894289540344094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-74584553751039063482009-10-24T22:13:16.976+01:002009-10-24T22:13:16.976+01:00After 30 books this is what Philip Roth said in a ...After 30 books this is what Philip Roth said in a Wall Street Journal interview:<br /><br />How does Charles Dickens fit? He wrote for monthly publications.<br /><br />He's one of those people with great popular appeal… and is a genius. They are the rarest of all birds. Our great writers didn't have that. Melville died in obscurity. Faulkner wasn't widely read. Bellow wasn't Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-19472434070543687642009-10-24T15:33:59.864+01:002009-10-24T15:33:59.864+01:00Aww. Well, congrats to Cally Taylor. I actually th...Aww. Well, congrats to Cally Taylor. I actually think I'll be purchasing her book soon!<br /><br />And thanks for sharing the secret. ;)Lilithashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16533142104140734995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-20701439566727989082009-10-24T14:56:24.116+01:002009-10-24T14:56:24.116+01:00I certainly feel a little bit of envy for everyone...I certainly feel a little bit of envy for everyone who gets published, but on the flip side, I think it's a great sign for those of us who are unpublished. New authors getting signed and finding publishers! How can that not be exciting and encouraging? :)<br /><br />Congrats to Carly!Jemi Fraserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02214408467456320167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-81781437011498512922009-10-23T22:34:37.853+01:002009-10-23T22:34:37.853+01:00Congrats to Cally! (I saw a bit of Heaven Can Wait...Congrats to Cally! (I saw a bit of Heaven Can Wait in the very early stages, on WriteWords...)<br /><br />Unfortunately, you can't altogether avoid re-reading your own words, since readings (bookshops, creative writing departments, festivals) have an annoying habit of asking you to nail your colours to the mast by actually reading some of your work aloud. You thought we choose which bits to emma darwinhttp://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwriting/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-36304475548973977692009-10-23T21:37:52.704+01:002009-10-23T21:37:52.704+01:00DOT - only your second rejection? Goodness, you&...DOT - only your second rejection? Goodness, you're positive virginal!<br /><br />Jo - Oh, the smell of a book, especially a book what you wrote! Mmmmm. <br /><br />Karen, Katherine and Writtenwyrdd - I think you get my point! (But Wwyrdd: "only" short stories?? Published is published. But i know what you mean, if you are holding out for something in particular, eg novels. I Nicola Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12189894289540344094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-84181632705988524872009-10-23T20:30:56.722+01:002009-10-23T20:30:56.722+01:00I am jealous of something or someone almost all th...I am jealous of something or someone almost all the time. Used to be jealous of the published. Now I'm jealous of the published who win awards. Used to be jealous of authors who got good reviews in newspapers. Then my book got good reviews in newspapers. Now I'm jealous of the authors who have tons of good Amazon and Goodreads reviews. It never ends. I might as well get used to it. I Karen Jones Gowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01153821980625034810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-82593076372678905552009-10-23T20:27:27.644+01:002009-10-23T20:27:27.644+01:00I love your last comment. My MS, now six months ol...I love your last comment. My MS, now six months old, is dead meat for me. To look at it now would be the equivalent of resurrecting someone I once knew.<br /><br />I have received my second agent's rejection, but am not down as they were so positive - I will blog on it some time - however, as I said, it seems to me they are talking of an item long buried.DOThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00719312854612984929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-4767075948518789002009-10-23T18:56:15.217+01:002009-10-23T18:56:15.217+01:00Because I wanted to write for children from about ...Because I wanted to write for children from about the age of ten, I spent my teenage years feeling particularly murderous towards any 'young prodigies' who had written a book at my own approximate age of 15, 16, 17 etc...<br /><br />And when you're a teenager yourself, of course, murderous is VERY murderous. <br /><br />It took me several decades before I wrote a book good enough to Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-86096853937034392952009-10-23T18:24:38.208+01:002009-10-23T18:24:38.208+01:00I sometimes look at the five or six copies of my b...I sometimes look at the five or six copies of my book on my bookshelf and swoon. They're so glossy and they smell like a book should smell. Sort of clean and chemically.But I don't think I would ever read it because I am a better writer now.<br />And I remember the first time I went into a bookshelf where I hadn't shmoozed the owner or the clerks and my book was there and facing Jo Treggiarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02417288480274268189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-54473679333699923052009-10-23T18:07:10.242+01:002009-10-23T18:07:10.242+01:00Sure, I'm jealous when people get published an...Sure, I'm jealous when people get published and I haven't been. But then, I kind of have to finish a novel and get it ready to be subbed otu first, don't I. So it's my own stupid fault I only have short stories published.<br /><br />On the other hand, I am not that jealous. I would even bake them cookies and refrain from adding poison! <br /><br />I particularly love your last writtenwyrddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02280711822302493122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-33955304417485178312009-10-23T17:58:40.968+01:002009-10-23T17:58:40.968+01:00Congrats to anyone who is published.
I had to sig...Congrats to anyone who is published.<br /><br />I had to sign some copies of my children's book for the Scottish Museum this week and for an Edinburgh bookshop. I had heard my book was on the shelves in good places, but I had not gone out of my way to see it. So, signing these copies was the first of me really seeing it out there. I didn't know whether to run or stand there looking at it Douglas Brutonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12625886640338360592noreply@blogger.com