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Hang in there, Pat B. Steven King once talked about how many rejection letters he received before he was finally published. Your day will come.
posted by
LuciW86
on January 24, 2010 at 10:28 PM
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I find I could throw a bucket of something over his head
How do you it, nobody ever picks up my work and by your critique I am amazed they picked this up. I mean it doesn't sound all that original or have any wow factor.even.
posted by
Kabu
on January 24, 2010 at 6:42 PM
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PatB
Well it is all about sales and marketing luv, sounded like he had a mouth anyway from when you first wrote about him. Your day will come luv
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 24, 2010 at 6:20 PM
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Pat
I second Azur yet again (I've been doing that a lot, lately, LOL). But that the guy has more than you thought he had doesn't mean
at all that you haven't got as much...It just means that his book (which may well be quite good) got to the right editor at the right time...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 24, 2010 at 5:32 PM
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Damn straight, Pat, why not you?
Well it seems if you have a good story, with excitement, etc - grammar doesn't matter. I've been busting my hump for the last two month editing a novella I wrote abou a ship sinking, under the belief grammar, flow, and character building were important. It would appear I'm mistaken........or would it? Keep at it Pat, forget Kermit, you'll get there and the publisher won't have to spend months cleaning up your grammar. Your novel, story or essay with go straight to print.
posted by
Hackthorne19
on January 24, 2010 at 1:34 PM
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Hey, if I could I'd offer you a drink, sit a spell, put our feet up. Been there, been there, been there. I do think we more-educated-conditioned writers need to loosen the grip a bit to stay current with our own age, but sometimes simply the subject matter or the story plot itself, minus any sort of detail (good dialogue, full-rounded characters, imagery and perfect grammar) causes such stories to be picked up. Salesmen choose what's to be published, ya know. Being a lady I'll omit some truly inspired epithets I could spit out about now.
posted by
OutaBreath
on January 24, 2010 at 11:26 AM
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Comparisons are not useful
They eat you up.
Keep going.keep going, keep going.
posted by
Azur
on January 24, 2010 at 10:44 AM
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Pat
Bear in mind that when it comes to self-publishing (should that be the case here) they'll publish just about anything you put in front of them. Even here, within Blogit, I have to chuckle a bit when someone announces with great excitement that their work is being published. If you can write the cheque, it can become a book (grammatical errors and all).
posted by
Troosha
on January 24, 2010 at 10:26 AM
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I totally agree with you. Are publishers crazy these days? --crazy for money I guess and that must make them make strange choices. It has got to be your turn one of these days.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 24, 2010 at 8:52 AM
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