The Tenth Circle

Tasmin21 said:

So... Is it stalkery to make comments on blogs that mention your book? Y'know, just a "Hope you enjoy it!" kinda comment?

Google Alerts may be the devil.

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The Tenners group I belong to have talked about this. The group is split on it; some of them send a personal email, some comment, and some just don't do anything. I'm torn about it, even though for my target audience it's not going to be much of an issue.

I think you need to know your target audience. If it's someone you're familiar with (I know a few bloggers on Twitter) then you might comment. Otherwise, I'd just leave it alone. Some people get uncomfortable when the author shows up to discuss/refute reviews. I've made it a personal policy to never comment to anything on Twitter or Amazon because those places aren't for me, the author. They're for other readers.

Second editor rejection on the new series proposal, with the same reasons as the first - they tried superheroes and it didn't sell well.

I am now officially worried.

Thanks.

It's interesting that there have been a few well-received "literary" superhero novels and a couple recent YA's, but that the ones marketed to the SF/F crowd don't seem to sell well. Mine's definitely not literary. It could be reworked as YA (agent and I have actually discussed this b/c of some of the themes present and relatively young ages of the characters). As it stands, it definitely as an UF flair.

Sorry, hon. I think the stress actually gets worse...

Hey! Those are "tobacco smoking accessories"!

(((Chaos)))

I'm at a total standstill of morasseness with the YA historical I'm trying to revise. I need a twist, a hook...and am coming up with ZERO. Blech.

In better news, I got an email from my assigned publicist!!! I'm a bit nervous about the entire process of finding out what ideas they have for my book and what resources might be thrown its way, so I'm trying to maintain an even strain...

ChaosTitan said:

Second editor rejection on the new series proposal, with the same reasons as the first - they tried superheroes and it didn't sell well.

I am now officially worried.

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(((Chaos)))

callalily61 said:

Hmm. In about a month, my agent's getting back to me with notes on changing my post-apoc dystopian to YA. It's kinda horror/spec fic/fantasy right now. I'm hoping he'll give notes that make it fall definitely into one of those categories.

So the stress never ends, I see. *dies*

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You can do it, Lily!

erinbee said:

In better news, I got an email from my assigned publicist!!! I'm a bit nervous about the entire process of finding out what ideas they have for my book and what resources might be thrown its way, so I'm trying to maintain an even strain...

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Exciting!!!

I heart tobacco smoking accessories.

Starting to get a bit obsessy (yes, that's a word. 'Cause I said so, that's why!) about new project with The Agent. He's only had it for three weeks, and there was a ton of other stuff ahead of mine for him to read, so I know I can't reasonably expect to hear back on it til maybe the end of May. But I'm still anxious. What if he hates it? What if he says "Nah, I don't want to do this"? What do I do with it then?

Of course, I also had a dream last night that he called to tell me not only did he love it, but that he went ahead and sold it for $300K. *headdesk* Nothing like my subconscious fluctuating between extremes.

Tasmin21 said:

Starting to get a bit obsessy (yes, that's a word. 'Cause I said so, that's why!) about new project with The Agent. He's only had it for three weeks, and there was a ton of other stuff ahead of mine for him to read, so I know I can't reasonably expect to hear back on it til maybe the end of May. But I'm still anxious. What if he hates it? What if he says "Nah, I don't want to do this"? What do I do with it then?

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Been there, so you have my sympathies. I was convinced he would hate my superheroes book, so I was surprised when called and said that with a few revisions he was sure he could sell it (I'm so glad he has utter faith in both my work and his skills, b/c I'm starting to worry myself over this particular project and it's only been through two editors!).

Faith, my friend. And lots of alcoholic beverages of your choice....

I'll be in the corner with Lily's tobacco smoking accessory.

ChaosTitan said:

I am now officially worried.

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I am now officially stunned.

And also -

Girl, we gotta talk about this almost-info thing you got going on.

Chaos, you really know how to pique everybody's interest! How about just a hint? Or a timeline for when you can break the good news?

Reppies all around!

Chaos -- congrats on the goodish sounding news!

Erin-- how exciting that you have an assigned publicist!

I am holed up in my office for the next two hours, eating jellybeans I stole from my daughter and working on revisions. Wish me luck!

Good luck, Phoe! I'm rooting for you (as I stare down my own pile of revisions...how do you write a book, again?).