Mmm, rum cake. Yumm, pudding. I just remembered the brandy-infused pumpkin bread pudding in my fridge. I'll share.
Oooh I love chocolate pudding and I love the Kitchn! I've made the coconut chocolate pudding before and used it to fill pancakes shaped like fish (bungeoppang/taiyaki). The pudding was so good I couldn't stop eating it separately!Good job on finishing the R & R, Hathor.
Sorry for R's already in this new thread. And Moonchild, please pass some of that rum cake. Yesterday I made homemade chocolate pudding and it came out fabulous! It's a recipe from theKitchn.com website by Faith Durand.
Pudding for everyone!
Australian River - I edit by reading the manuscript in my head, also! Not in David Attenborough's voice, though. In Morgan Freeman's sometimes, and sometimes in Meryl Streep's.
I'm toying with the idea of a YA story, however it has to be set during the first year of university, so I'm wondering if that would be more NA?
Brandy-pumpkin bread pudding? I'm in! Yum! Thanks Hathor! Also, you're the first on the second page here... Must be a good omen for someone who just finished an R&R!
Oh that would have gotten me real upset! Then I would have laughed at myself. Hope you did the same, after a day or two.Aahhhh yeah, Morgan Freeman is another good one.
I participated in Pitmad or something similar once, then realised I used the wrong # (!!!).
Oh wow sorry you got two... So Moonchild said it, I think. In the past, if I notice the agent made the effort to personalize it I thanked them. Form, no,for the reason Moonchild said, with one or two exceptions because they had such a quick turn around or I really liked them and just wanted to thank them. So I go with my gut.Both the requests I had out turned into Rs today. That's a blow. At least I got both bandaids ripped off at once...?
One of the Rs was super nice and very complimentary; she said the quality of my writing was excellent (yay!) but just didn't connect with the MC. The other R... well... she thought I was trying to write straight horror, and I wasn't. Oops.
What is the prevailing wisdom on sending thank-yous in response to personalized rejections? Don't bother or nice touch?
Could it be set at a university campus, during the summer leading up to the first year? Madeleine Roux did that with ASYLUM and from reading it, I got the sense that she wanted YA characters and general feel to it, but needed the story to take place in a college dorm situation, so she set the whole thing as a special summer program for prospective university students. A lot of universities have things like that, so it didn't feel forced or anything.
Or your characters could be 17-18 and in first-year university. That happens.
Both the requests I had out turned into Rs today. That's a blow. At least I got both bandaids ripped off at once...?
One of the Rs was super nice and very complimentary; she said the quality of my writing was excellent (yay!) but just didn't connect with the MC. The other R... well... she thought I was trying to write straight horror, and I wasn't. Oops.
What is the prevailing wisdom on sending thank-yous in response to personalized rejections? Don't bother or nice touch?
Happy Tuesday, everyone!
I got a short story acceptance last night! This one for a steampunk anthology. And yesterday one of my stories was published in the latest Third Flatiron anthology.
Besides that, I had more people show up for book club than I was expecting (yay!) and have been so busy reading a certain story that now I have the most torturous song in the underworld stuck in my head (again).
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Okay, back to reading (and maybe listening to some music to get This is Hades, After All out of my head.)