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Scullars
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Username: Scullars
Post Number: 46
Registered: 02-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 02:10 pm: | 
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Here is a book I may pick up after the holidays. Patricia Williams, a law professor at Columbia University, offers a discourse on various subjects in her book, Open House, including race, passing, and American anti-intellectualism. She gives a very elucidating interview at Salon. Here is the link:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/12/15/williams/index.html |
A_womon
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Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1188
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 06:38 pm: |
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Hey Scullars,
What's up? I was wondering how things were going with your book and your agent? Do you still have the same agent? What is the agent doing for you?
Peace. |
Scullars
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Username: Scullars
Post Number: 47
Registered: 02-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 08:57 am: |
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Ah, I still have my agent, Janell, who is continually sending the mss out to the houses. It was turned down by a few editors, who actually liked the book but said it wasn't quite there. So just went through a re-write and resent it to Janell. Because the story crosses genres (at one point, my agent referred to it as genre-bending, and the editor she was talking to mistakenly thought the plot involved a transsexual), it is perceived as a hard sell. The book has some historical (19th century NY), some paranormal (reincarnation), some erotica...hopefully, I will find a market. It's just convincing TPTB that there's a market for my story that may be the hurdle. |
A_womon
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Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1190
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 10:29 pm: |
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Wow. Do you ever get discouraged by all of the negative stories you hear about writers NOT making it in this business? Do you think it's too late for new writers to make a career out of writing books, or it just that we hear these " thought I was gonna bust the writing world wide open but the publishers handed me a check and then kicked me to the gutter" type stories more than positive success stories?
Good luck to you scullars, I wish that you would make that heavenly story into a book! And I wish you much success in your endeavors to become a paid writer. |
Scullars
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Username: Scullars
Post Number: 48
Registered: 02-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 01:43 am: |
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Thanks A_womon for the encouraging words! Actually, I had my blinders taken off long ago when I self-published my first book. I've learned that you have to be a marketer as well as a writer, and I'm still learning both ends.
I'll never get discouraged; I luv writing, for one. Also, I will at least have my short story published next year in Masques IV, an anthology of horror/paranormal stories (will share the TOC with Ray Bradbury, which I consider a feat in itself). Also Brandon Massey is looking over one of my stories, "Soft Song", for possible inclusion in Dark Dreams 2, (although all I can do is cross my fingers, here).
So, in the end, I will keep writing and persevere with my dream. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 03:40 pm: |
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Thanks for the link. I always enjoy reading Patricia Williams' analyses--I'll have to add "Open House" to my growing reading list for 2005! |
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