tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8702219714438420151.post3276120535204803227..comments2024-03-28T06:40:18.963-04:00Comments on Leigh Talbert Moore, Author: First the Good NewsLTMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05239077455322030275noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8702219714438420151.post-44456259456584670902010-02-27T15:20:10.320-05:002010-02-27T15:20:10.320-05:00umm... Thanks? LOL! :D no, thank you, hon.
(Now I...umm... Thanks? LOL! :D no, thank you, hon.<br /><br />(Now I'm thinking my post is whiney-baby. Sorry 'bout that. Can take heat. Staying in kitchen~ :o)LTMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05239077455322030275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8702219714438420151.post-28378389029609346262010-02-27T14:05:40.444-05:002010-02-27T14:05:40.444-05:00I am sorry the agency best known for buggery ficti...I am sorry the agency best known for buggery fiction rejected you. But, if I were in prison, I would prefer to be rejected by those who promote that genre, if you dig. Be not discouraged; I suspect they stopped reading once they realized that your book is all story, well-told, without reliance on cruelty or exhibitionism to dupe pseudo-sophisticated readers into believing they are being edified. You gotta figure these agents are no more competent that Hollywood in finding ideas that work; and for every tentpole film that is actually worth watching, there is a lifetime of dreck that sinks into the recesses of memory; but many of them are likely looking for the big score without considering the literary talent or skill or, as Bud Light puts it, drinkability of the fiction that is being offered.<br /><br />Here, as I see it, are the standards that are most likely to get non-fantasy/sci-fi/vampire/other-random-horror novels published: Do children suffer? Check. As a corollary, is there parental misbehavior that results in some incidental or ongoing childhood experience? Check. Is there unsettling death, physical attack and/or other assorted mayhem to titillate the voyeuristic reader? Check. If you aren't writing about these things, but are merely crafting plot-driven, engagingly-written drinkable stories, you have a hard row to hoe.JRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15650828006630115048noreply@blogger.com