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permaflounced
Join Date: Aug 2009
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Oh! And happy Birthday, Soul! Think of it as your own personal New Year.
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Beagle Lips.
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Yaizu, Japan
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That is a brilliant idea!
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A cat may not look at a king
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The edge
Posts: 5,232
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permaflounced
Join Date: Aug 2009
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ray of motherf#%&ing sunshine
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: the winter of my discontent
Posts: 3,746
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(((Vandal)))
Madder, wow. That's just... yeah, ugh. Sorry am out of words. Not good since I'm supposed to be writing this afternoon. (((Cricket))) That sucks. I've had the same thing happen, and it really makes you go WTF. |
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A new year, a new avatar
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Happy Birthday, Soul! Thanks for the offer to read.
Got an R on a partial. Another "writing is great, story is great but not unique enough". Ugh.
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permaflounced
Join Date: Aug 2009
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(((snappy)))
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Super Browser
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: In a van down by the river
Posts: 10,167
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Happy birthday, Soul!
Cricket...you are not alone in this. This too shall pass and you'll rise above it. Even publication can throw you in the arm pit of doom, although I think I've gone a little further down south and become wedged in the crack of doom. Both versions of my book on Amazon are so expensive that there will be no sales. That looks pretty obvious now. It's not a PA thing, it's a thing where production costs of the book shot the price up too high. You know you've had it when your book doesn't get a rank 23 days after publication, and you've sold one high-priced Kindle edition. Library sales would be perfect for this book if I just knew how to go about getting it in front of librarians. I'm trying personalized letters at this point. Library Digest (?) and Kirkus are out of the question at this point. Tri
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Gnawing my hairless tail
Join Date: May 2009
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(((Snappy))) That sucks--I'm sorry.
(((Tri))) Why was it so expensive? Is it a long book? The price will go down eventually, won't it? Ah, Sunday in the Pit.... |
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A cat may not look at a king
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The edge
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(((Snappy)))
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Super Browser
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: In a van down by the river
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The reason it was so high is because it's got one of those artist-rendered wrap-around covers, 27 interior illustrations, hardback binding, extra cataloging inside and a special font and format. It comes in at 370 pages, which means it's not terribly large.
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Beagle Lips.
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Yaizu, Japan
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(((Snappy))) and (((Tri)))
(Brother-in-law came through and paid his half.)
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A cat may not look at a king
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The edge
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Yay for brother opening his wallet!!!
Sigh, Tri. What a drag -- you get the red-carpet treatment from your publisher, and this is what happens. I know the production costs are high, but how can they expect to recoup the illustration costs if they don't price it reasonably? |
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Super Browser
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: In a van down by the river
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Quote:
Sometimes...le sigh...little piglets are not allowed to get their swill at the trough. When the hogs have vacated, we wallow in our little mud puddles, looking for the leftovers. Tri
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KoalaKoalaKoala!
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: In the Salon d'ennui
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Wow, Tri. That's really lousy. Pit-worthy.
I hope Soul is spending her birthday out of the Pit, somewhere fun. I think I'm just gonna go over here and dig another sub-basement if that's okay? |
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ray of motherf#%&ing sunshine
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: the winter of my discontent
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Oh, Tri, that really sucks. Can't win no matter what.
Woke up to a full R. Too similar to another book. My story was deeper,* but the other story was funnier. *Awesome because another agent basically said my story wasn't deep enough. ![]() ETA: 2 full Rs. Just got a second one.
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A cat may not look at a king
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The edge
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(((Ink))) Well, it's nice to be deep. That's why we're in a pit.
Maggoccino for you on this way-too-cold-morning. We have 8 degrees here, and that's almost as low as it gets in Philly. |
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ray of motherf#%&ing sunshine
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: the winter of my discontent
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Alas, yeah, the only thing deep about me is the time I spend in the Pit. *sips maggoccino*
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Oh crap, Ink. Sounds like many of us are headed for a spell in the Pit-below-the-Pit.
Do we do group hugs in the Pit? Or do we just wander sheepishly into our various corners, kick the dirt, and look sideways at each other?
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KoalaKoalaKoala!
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: In the Salon d'ennui
Posts: 4,348
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Don't worry, I should be done digging the new sub-sub-sub-basement for anybody who needs to go deeper in the Pit. We could do a hug kinda thing. You know awkwardly. While not looking at each other. And then wander away sheepishly and pretended it didn't happen.
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Pit Livin' & Purgatory Dreamin'
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: NYC
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Mornin', Pit
{{{Ink}}} That just sucks.
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Bright lights induce scuttling
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Scuttled under a rock
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Thanks Mario, Snappy Tri and Word! Red I had a really great birthday, even had a surprise party thrown for me! Needless to say I dared not venture into the pit during my moments of happiness.
Madder long hand has saved my sanity! I just don't have the discipline to keep ignoring the temptations of the internet Man, and Snappy if they HAD thought it was original then it’d be ‘it’s not marketable’ urgh Tri I’m a librarian. Not sure how much I can help but feel free to send whatever letter you have my way and I will see what I can do. Madder that’s good news! I was worried brother in law was a cheapskate Heh Kellion it’s -33 Celcius (with the wind chill) here, I think I got you beat I worried my car wasn’t going to start this morningAnd on to the mass of bad news in here. HOLY FUCK PITIZENS! {{{EVERYONE}} Snappy, what a shitty R Aw Tri your news made me want to cry! I’m so sorry L And Ink WTF?????????????? I hate varied advice and that R sucks monkey balls. THERE! I SAID IT! Aw Cricket that SUCKS. The least they could've done is acknowledged that they'd had contact with you before
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A new year, a new avatar
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Monday morning pit! I'd say "good morning" but that seems dull. So "morning" it is. Thanks, Soul and all fellow pit-ters? pit-ees? eh, just thanks. I am going to crawl back into the sub sub basement which I'm assuming is dug at this point and hide. If anyone wants me, dive on in.
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ray of motherf#%&ing sunshine
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: the winter of my discontent
Posts: 3,746
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*hangs out in Red's sub basement*
So I've decided the contemporary I'm working on is the epitome of all the reasons my current contemp is getting R'd. It's not hooky and it's too similar to another book. Yay. And, you know, I could put it aside and work on something else, but the only other thing tempting me is a paranormal that I need to revise, and YA paranormal is supposed to be completely and utterly overdone. I've lost the desire to work on anything. |
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