Still working out of the office today, although I think I lost the monkeys on my tail through a series of random turns around the Cherry Creek section of Denver on my way to a lunch meeting. I've now got myself a nice little nook in my local library, with a reserved room for most of the afternoon so I can actually make the phone calls I need to make without disturbing other library patrons.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
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Hullo all, WebMonkey here. Unfeasible Enterprises is currently under attack from my evil simian twins: connectivity-wrecking internet baboons that do horrible things like cut DSL speeds to a limping crawl and fling Ping-rates at innocent passerby. Needless to say I (fearless WebMonkey, ook) am doing battle with these Sinister Sysop […]
When I'm sneezing and achy and tired and coughing, it makes my head hurt to be at the computer all day, so I'm hoping to get some reading done instead. And besides the submissions I have to get to, there's this whole wonderful list of YALSA's best books for young adults, including Maureen Johnson's Suite Scarlett. Whee!
You've read interviews and articles and reviews of book by kt literary authors who are published, but aren't you just the teeny, tiniest bit curious about my signed authors, as yet unsold? I knew you were!
First, of all, hooray for Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book winning the Newbery Award!! I was really impressed, not just with the award winners, but also with some of honor books, particularly for the Printz Award. Check out the whole list of winners online here.
There's been some really interesting comments on yesterday's post about Lev Grossman's article on Modern Book Publishing. I was particularly taken by Joe's comment. "The existence of a publishing hurdle will make the accomplishment of getting published a more meaningful one when it finally comes and, beyond that, will make it more likely that I will actually enjoy some success in connecting to readers, because it keeps me from inflicting my worst work on people." That's really close to what I was getting at!
There's an interesting piece in Time Magazine this week by Lev Grossman about modern book publishing, and how the way mainstream publishing does things now is a dying breed, and that change is-a-coming.
We've all got to do it -- following up. You guys are waiting to hear from an agent, and time just keeps going by, until the deadline she gave you is long since past, and you're wondering about the protocol for reminding her. And, to draw back the curtain here a bit, I have to follow up as well.