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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Great Plains
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kaitie, thanks so much for sharing your story. It gives me a glimmer of hope on that agent. Today I'm having my 20th wedding anniversary and feel great. I'll be published someday.
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Bow before the laser screwdriver
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The land of the rising sun.
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Happy anniversary!
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Great Plains
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Thanks for all your kind wishes.
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I had never heard back on an old-fashioned, paper submission to her so I emailed her last week or so. She says my email and one other alerted them to some mislaid paper submissions. So now each of us gets a personal reply from Ms Jackson, by mail because the original #lettermo challenge was about the art of old-fashioned letter-writing. How classy of her! What a great anniversary/birthday present (my b-day was last Friday). I look forward to any feedback from such a successful agent. You can be certain I'll be checking the mailbox about every hour! How long has it been since I was watching for something pleasant in the US Mail? Luck of the lost pile? Lucie
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
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Oo, nice!
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Researching History's Mysteries
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Western New York State
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My anniversary is this month too. 28th or 29th. I never remember.
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move along, nothing to see here
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Great Plains
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History, you need to send out some queries in time to hear back on your anniversary.
Lucie still checking the mail, hourly
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standing on head, typing one-handed...
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Ireland
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Bow before the laser screwdriver
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The land of the rising sun.
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You know, I have to admit that the one element of being on submission that I don't like is not getting requests anymore. I mean, when you're sending queries the rejections suck, but those requests feel so good! It's like little confirmations that your writing is good, snippets of hope that can just improve an entire day (or hell, an entire week depending on the person).
While I like not having to worry about putting everything together or checking my email five times a day or being nervous about opening that little (1) or getting five form rejections on the same day, I miss the pick-me-up confirmations of quality. I feel like there should be something similar for authors on submission. A once a month email saying, "Your book is awesome!" That's silly, I know.
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
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It's not silly. It's totally true. All that validation dries up when you're not getting those requests.
We should totally make up our own Writer Validation Service that sends out periodic emails saying "Your writing is awesome! Name of Main Character is nuanced and multi-layered! There is plenty of action, but also plenty of emotion! Go you!"
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Bow before the laser screwdriver
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The land of the rising sun.
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Can it come with cake?
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Making my own sunshine
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Honestly, I'm kind of offended you think it wouldn't.
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Bow before the laser screwdriver
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The land of the rising sun.
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"You will experience a tingling sensation and then death." And just because it's still awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc Take two: 90,008 Current: 7,680 |
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move along, nothing to see here
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Great Plains
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Dear kaitie,
Your writing is awesome! Name of Main Character is nuanced and multi-layered! There is plenty of action, but also plenty of emotion! Go you!" ![]() With highest regard, M/T/S Book Validation Service CC: heyjude (cause I shamelessly snitched that from you) .
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Bow before the laser screwdriver
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The land of the rising sun.
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Haha. Thanks guys. That totally made me smile.
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"You will experience a tingling sensation and then death." And just because it's still awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc Take two: 90,008 Current: 7,680 |
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Making my own sunshine
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You forgot the cake!
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Making my own sunshine
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Anyone else need validation today?
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standing on head, typing one-handed...
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Ireland
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Making my own sunshine
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Dear
Your writing is outstanding superb and sometimes vicious. We like vicious. Not enough to publish it, but certainly to read. Please let us know when you get published so we can read it again. Our favorite part was that guy with the thing when he said that thing about the other thing. Brilliantly done! Regretfully, The MTS Validation People
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Going home!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Prague now, Glasgow in November
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I want to read a book now where the main character actually is called Main Character.
Wouldn't mind some validation myself, if only to stop me tearing up this damned first chapter again. Grrr. And cake. Wish I had cake.
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move along, nothing to see here
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Great Plains
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You are a great writer with inspired settings and stirring prose, but your main character's name is too authentic. We suggest something more generic, like Protagonist, "Tag" for short. And of course, we can't publish it on the basis of Chapter One. You actually have to finish the darn book. To help with that, we though we would send along our drug of choice, .With highest regard, The M/T/S Validation Service
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Making my own sunshine
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![]() Tag. ::steals idea:: |
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standing on head, typing one-handed...
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Ireland
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Lost in mental space.
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Someplace else.
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move along, nothing to see here
Join Date: Sep 2010
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I got the R from JJ today, but it's filled with very useful feedback. I'm so grateful for it. In two paragraphs, she's told me more about why she's passing and maybe how to fix the problem than either of my last two fulls. Overall, I'd call this a positive.
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