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Old Blood's Fate
Things are moving along nicely as we head for the end. Mora has Jack in a motel room. She's drugged him, and is trying to work a ritual to bind him to her. She doesn't know that Jack and Emma are supposed to check in with each other in about ten minutes. She doesn't know that Emma knows where Jack is (Jack and Emma think Mora is someone else), and will come looking for him when he doesn't check in.
In fact, Mora doesn't even know that Emma is still alive.
One could almost feel sorry for Mora, except for the whole squicky sex thing earlier in the novel.
I found out today that the already spotty bus service where I live is about to get worse. The one and only bus that comes anywhere near my house (it's a twenty minute walk to the nearest bus stop) will no longer be running after 8pm starting in September. I will stop there, lest I get into a rant about Governor Tim "I hate everyone who isn't a wealthy white male in an SUV" Pawlenty. Oh, did I type that out loud?
In the Ralan's newsletter I received yesterday there was an article about how a small press book publisher asked to be taken out of the listing because she was flooded with manuscripts, most of which did not even come close to following her submission guidelines.
People, please, read the guidelines and follow them. If you don't, you guarantee yourself a rejection, and in this business it is tough enough to crawl out of the slush pile. Also, stupid stuff like that hurts all of us. That market might well close (at least temporarily) because 400 idiots sent complete manuscripts in whatever format they wanted instead of a synopsis and the first fifty pages in standard format, like the guidelines said.
One more time.
Read the guidelines. Follow the guidelines. Submit according to the guidelines.
Thank you,
The Management.
In Peace,
Michael
Old Blood's Fate
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Things are moving along nicely as we head for the end. Mora has Jack in a motel room. She's drugged him, and is trying to work a ritual to bind him to her. She doesn't know that Jack and Emma are supposed to check in with each other in about ten minutes. She doesn't know that Emma knows where Jack is (Jack and Emma think Mora is someone else), and will come looking for him when he doesn't check in.
In fact, Mora doesn't even know that Emma is still alive.
One could almost feel sorry for Mora, except for the whole squicky sex thing earlier in the novel.
I found out today that the already spotty bus service where I live is about to get worse. The one and only bus that comes anywhere near my house (it's a twenty minute walk to the nearest bus stop) will no longer be running after 8pm starting in September. I will stop there, lest I get into a rant about Governor Tim "I hate everyone who isn't a wealthy white male in an SUV" Pawlenty. Oh, did I type that out loud?
In the Ralan's newsletter I received yesterday there was an article about how a small press book publisher asked to be taken out of the listing because she was flooded with manuscripts, most of which did not even come close to following her submission guidelines.
People, please, read the guidelines and follow them. If you don't, you guarantee yourself a rejection, and in this business it is tough enough to crawl out of the slush pile. Also, stupid stuff like that hurts all of us. That market might well close (at least temporarily) because 400 idiots sent complete manuscripts in whatever format they wanted instead of a synopsis and the first fifty pages in standard format, like the guidelines said.
One more time.
Read the guidelines. Follow the guidelines. Submit according to the guidelines.
Thank you,
The Management.
In Peace,
Michael
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Date: 2005-07-09 05:19 pm (UTC)