writerly queries
Oct. 15th, 2007 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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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
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Date: 2007-10-16 03:54 pm (UTC)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*
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Date: 2007-10-16 05:30 pm (UTC)actually,that WAS Morgause who boiled the cat, as I recall. She was bored.
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Date: 2007-10-16 06:06 pm (UTC)Ursula LeGuin says, "Go on, make up your own damn myth, it'll turn out to be one of the old ones anyway."
The thing is, I can never tell if I am remembering this stuff in my subconscious, or if I really am making it up
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Date: 2007-10-16 08:48 pm (UTC)Really really GOOD fanfic?
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Date: 2007-10-16 06:17 pm (UTC)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 06:24 pm (UTC)well, yes, I'd say that's a pretty accurate description of MY take on her, anyway... So, have you read "No Human Hands to Touch" in Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers?
Which book is it the first chapter of?
The Queen of Air and Darkness (book 2 of The Once and Future King)
I am working on a book about Telemakos in Britain (heh)
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Date: 2007-10-16 04:18 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-10-16 11:37 am (UTC)They are also rabid manga readers, and you can thank ME for this. Sara operates a little "Manga Library" and loans out manga by the kilo. (She has printed herself a business card with the title "Manga Librarian.") Her entire class now reads manga, but they are the only class in the school that do. There are a few kids in her little brother's class that read it as a sort of trickle-down effect.
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Date: 2007-10-20 04:13 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-10-21 12:10 pm (UTC)sad, but true.
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