tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567596317768332199.post3214779327300219949..comments2023-10-25T06:49:38.450-04:00Comments on Parody is Therapy: New Microsoft System Monitors Workers' BodiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567596317768332199.post-21546193267113120412008-01-23T01:52:00.000-05:002008-01-23T01:52:00.000-05:00In my case, it is. Doesn't mean I won't write some...In my case, it is. Doesn't mean I won't write something else, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567596317768332199.post-39099150433818396212008-01-20T04:57:00.000-05:002008-01-20T04:57:00.000-05:00Yeah I misspoke on that "ever going to shop your n...Yeah I misspoke on that "ever going to shop your novel" part. I knew you'd shopped it around without success. I just didn't know whether being fed up with trying to market it was a permanent condition or not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567596317768332199.post-89332382192002283082008-01-19T19:36:00.000-05:002008-01-19T19:36:00.000-05:00I've told you this story before. Many years ago I ...I've told you this story before. Many years ago I shopped it around, got a lot of compliments, a few insults, and no takers. One company, Scribner's, acted like they would take it, but didn't. Kept it for a year. It wore me out. I shopped it around again after the recent revisions, same result. It's incredibly hard to get fiction published (good fiction, I mean), and I just don't give a damn anymore. I don't know if you can imagine the labor that goes into it, but if you can, then also imagine knowing before you start that you will probably find no reward, however modest, after two years in which nearly everything else in life is put on hold. I have a friend up in Georgia with whom I recently re-established contact. He sent me two of his novellas. Masterful little things. He's really learned his craft. Even Marion Montgomery read them, loved them, and recommended them to his publisher. They still wouldn't take it. And thus goes the world. He's still writing though, just finished another novel. I wish him luck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567596317768332199.post-74019361379546593382008-01-19T13:14:00.001-05:002008-01-19T13:14:00.001-05:00I wish I could write science fiction. Heck I wish ...I wish I could write science fiction. Heck I wish I could write fiction. You ever going to shop your first novel to publishers? And/or write another one?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567596317768332199.post-60644114263641829302008-01-19T04:44:00.000-05:002008-01-19T04:44:00.000-05:00In my opinion, there's a best-selling science fict...In my opinion, there's a best-selling science fiction novel to be gotten out of this. If you only had the time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com