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1) Any professional YA authors out there who have the time and energy to write an essay on Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series and/or Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance trilogy?  Borders are commissioning a couple of anthologies of critical essays aimed at young readers.  The deadlines are quite soon (the Riordan essays are due 1 Dec 07); pay is $500 plus royalties for a 3000-5000 word essay.  If you're interested let me know and I'll pass your details on to the Powers That Be.

2) Anyone know of an agent who deals with manga or graphic novels in general?  IT'S FOR A FRIEND, HONEST.  Well actually it's for my husband, whose company is considering turning a game into a graphic novel.

that's it for the moment
 

Date: 2007-10-15 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com
2) If you find one, can you let me know? The last time I checked, there was so little money involved that I could not find an agent who specifically did that. Basically everyone's handing it to their pre-existing agents if they get offered a deal.

Date: 2007-10-15 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com
PS. Um, I haven't read those series, and I'm not sure if I'm technically a YA writer anyway, but if there's any other openings I'd love to be considered. I am a pro writer and I do read a lot of YA, and even did so for a living for a number of years at the Jim henson Company. Do you have more details? Rphoenix2@hotmail.com

Date: 2007-10-15 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marguerlucy.livejournal.com
Liar. You've commissioned that kid in China to contact the Japan Manga Powers that be to make THE WINTER PRINCE into a graphic manga novel.... and I demand a portion of the royalties. Or a free copy. Whatevs. ;-)

Date: 2007-10-16 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marguerlucy.livejournal.com
YES! seeing as how I salivate at the thought of a movie of Winter Prince, and graphic novels are so cinematic, I will now enjoy the thought of that.

I'm going to Salem on Halloween night, and was trying to think of a good witchy character to go as based on the fabric I have. I've decided to be Morgan le Fey...though she's not technicially a witch, she DID boil a cat, so I figure its six and one half dozen.

Can Morgause boil a cat in the graphic novel?
*uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh*

Date: 2007-10-16 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marguerlucy.livejournal.com
i think she did it in The Once and Future King as part of the spell to make Arthur oblivious. If I remember correctly, I haven't read that in about 10 years and i had to read it for summer reading, which makes even the most enjoyable books a little more laborious.

Date: 2007-10-16 08:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marguerlucy.livejournal.com
LOL.
Really really GOOD fanfic?

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Date: 2007-10-16 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiboribi.livejournal.com
I thought she started to do it to see which bone would make you invisible and got bored halfway through.

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Date: 2007-10-16 06:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marguerlucy.livejournal.com
Ah! she's not a witch - she's a sociopath!
Which book is it the first chapter of? not "Sword/Stone," I'm assuming, unless she was a kid. LOL of course the best of sociopaths started out torturing small animals as children.

LOL @ the Ursula Leguin stuff (her books are ones I'm always meaning to read). I guess the thing with the old legends though, the fun is finding your version of the story, and the wherefore and why!

what are you working on right now?

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Date: 2007-10-16 04:18 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] firiel44.livejournal.com
Since I couldn't make it past the prologue of Eragon, any essay on it would probably be about how they'll publish anything these days. They probably wouldn't be $500-worth of impressed with my resume anyway.

On the flip side, I would totally buy a Winter Prince graphic novel and shove it at all my friends and order them to love and adore it. (This can actually work. [livejournal.com profile] miladygrey commanded me to like Doctor Who and I was sucked in by the wormhole in the opening titles.) Come on, all the cool kids are doing it!

Date: 2007-10-16 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiboribi.livejournal.com
I haven't read Eragon. Is it as bad as I assume?

Date: 2007-10-20 04:13 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] firiel44.livejournal.com
How cute! Of course, as a librarian, I have to heartily approve.

I can't speak for what draws kids to Eragon. It felt like a bad LOTR fanfic to me (all 6 or so pages anyway). I may get brave and watch the movie at some point.

Date: 2007-10-20 07:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiboribi.livejournal.com
I suspect younger brains just have less to compare the fluff to, so they latch onto the good ideas within.

Date: 2007-10-21 06:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiboribi.livejournal.com
Maybe it's something you instilled in me, then. I can turn it off long enough to read Rowling.

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