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]

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.