writerly queries

[ewein2412]

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
 

Comments

[ewein2412]

what makes you think I haven't ALREADY DONE IT MYSELF? ahahaha

[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*

[ewein2412]

are you asking me to draw morgause boiling a cat?

actually,that WAS Morgause who boiled the cat, as I recall. She was bored.

[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.

[ewein2412]

oh great. I just opened my copy to check (being SURE she did it cause she was bored... and I am right, it's in the first chapter, if you care)--but I opened the book randomly to a page that tells EXACTLY the particular story I am repeating (and which version I thot I made up) in the book I'm writing now, only in White's version it happens to Lancelot

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

[ewein2412]

all of which just goes to show that what I really do best is write Once & Future King fanfic.

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

LOL.
Really really GOOD fanfic?

[ewein2412]

I meant The Winter Prince!

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

Once and Future King that has gotten itself all mixed up with the Mabinogian and TS Elliot.

[ewein2412]

I write Waste Land fanfic too!

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I thought she started to do it to see which bone would make you invisible and got bored halfway through.

[ewein2412]

you're not wrong, but she was idle to begin with--she does it "to amuse herself, or at any rate to pass the time while the men were away at war"

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. It's been ages since I read The Once and Future King. I have this very odd relationship with it. There will always be something that will make me say "Oh! I should read The Once and Future King! (At one point, it was my commencement address. Maybe now it will be these livejournal comments.) "I will pick it up, devour a book, think it is wonderful and amazing, and then stop, suddenly, about two chapters into the next book. I have been about two chapters into "A Candle in the Wind" for like three years now.

[ewein2412]

I read it about a million times in my teens, but I've mostly forgotten it now--along with lots of salient facts that I thought I'd NEVER forget, like the color of Mordred's hair

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I usually have no patience for Lancelot and Guenevere, but I really liked them in it. It's possible that my most recent distraction is because while I was reading it and made some comment about that, someone foisted the Fionavar Tapestry into my lap.

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

huh... its obvious that its been too long since I picked it up, as I seem to have melded "morgause" and "morgan le fey" into one person.

*goes off to wiki* oops hee hee.

I have a similar relationship to Gone With The Wind. I think I've stopped at her marriage to that first husband (for no good reason) every time i've tried to read it. Like 150 pages in. I'll never finish it lol.

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

ah so wait, is it Morgause or Morgen who boils the cat? or is she the same person in "Once"? ok i should just look it up when i get home, but god help me you lovely people have helped while away so many lovely minutes at work!

[ewein2412]

it's morgause who boils the cat. it's morgan le fay who lives in the castle made of lard. (does that clear things up?)

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

HAHA. awesome.

Hmmm. Well now I dont know which one I should be. Probably le Fey. the magical element adds more fun for costumes. Maybe Morgause for next year :-D

[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?

[ewein2412]

she's not a witch - she's a sociopath

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)

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

OH! yes I did!! i haven't finished Fire yet, though I've started!

"Hands," interestingly enough, definitely captured some sympathy for Morgause despite her obvious f*ed-up-ness ;-) I was also thrilled to read the incident of the hunt that Medraut alludes to in TWP, and it was awesome to think back and figure out what he was covering up for Goewin/Lleu's (or his own) sake about it.

But it wasn't like... too much info - and i dont mean like "WHOA too much information," lol. I mean that I still have questions and assumptions of my own and pieces of their relationship I'd love to learn more about. etc. etc.

although it is interesting that it was in that particular collection of stories ("Sirens"), as it is much more of a personal story and doesnt really have the "magical" elements of the others. how did you get involved in that?

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

re: my "not too much info" comment - I mean that favorably (wasn't sure if that was clear, amidst my verbal diarrhea)

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I started readind The Once and Future King again sometime last week, after I located it, and left the other book I was reading in my office. I have decided to read it all the way through without getting distracted by other books (I'll see how well this goes). Anyway, I just finished "The Sword in the Stone" on my lunch break, and and got about as far as Morgause boiling the cat. It was grosser than I remembered. Can yours please not boil any cats?

[ewein2412]

mine just goes around poisoning people and breaking their fingers.