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

[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)

[ewein2412]

deliasherman and ellen_kushner are responsible for my appearance in that anthology. They were in London in 1996 and I went to an auction of 19th century children's book illustrations with them and then to lunch, and they said, you should submit a story to this erotic fantasy anthology. And I said, oh but I can't, I'm too much of a prude. And Ellen (I think it was Ellen) said, "I'm sure you have an erotic story in you."

And as it happened, all the backstory to TWP had been there for years and years, but I thot it was Rawther Inspired to let Morgause tell it. And actually, your comment re "not too much info" is well taken, as there was a lot more going on than I could fit into a short story... the whole "Medraut as executioner" episode referred to in the first chapter of TWP, for example

When I first read The Winter Prince, after writing "No Human Hands," I was kind of appalled at how *raw* all this must be for Medraut in the beginning--it starts immediately after he leaves Orkney

I had forgotten

I forget everything

God knows how it was ever published as a children's book.

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

yeah it is rather impressive, looking back, at how long medraut manages to hold it together.

when i read it at the ripe age of 12, i wasnt offended. LOL so i think you're OK.

[ewein2412]

I believe tiboribi, who's been joining this conversation from time to time, first read it when she was 10

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I think I was 13. Didn't it come out in 93? I must have been 13. I met Madeleine L'Engle with you when I was 14, and it was the year before that.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

And also, I didn't get the weird incest stuff with Medraut and Morgause until I was in college. So...My guess is if you're innocent and oblivious, you'll miss it completely.

[ewein2412]

yes, it did come out in 93. you must be right. I was thinking you were one of those 6th graders who came along to the reading I did at the Walnut St library--but they were cathedral school kids, now that I think about it, so you mustn't have been one of them. (were you there on your own?)

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

There were three of us (plus one staffer) from The Circle School there too. So, no, I wasn't entirely on my own. I had read the book the night before and had pronounced Lleu "Lou" the entire time.

[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.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

Well, good, just so long as she just poisons people out of boredom, none of this boiling cats business.