Just a quick note here for the record, since I got an email about this recently: I do not expect to reopen to queries before the end of the year. Since I usually close to queries for most of December anyway, and I’m still partly on maternity leave, I’d rather wait until the new year before diving back into the query trenches.
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Not sure exactly how I feel about this, so I’m opening it up to comments in an attempt to get a dialogue going, and maybe I’ll be able to sort out my own thoughts. Basically, I saw this piece on MediaBistro yesterday which reads as a pretty rough indictment of YA (the author Caitlin Flanagan proclaims “I hate Y.A. novels; they bore me.”), but at the same time, the full-length piece in the Atlantic from which the MediaBistro extract is pulled is a lush paean to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.
What’s the best (i.e. the worst and/or funniestand/) reasons you’ve heard or heard about for a book being rejected?
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.
But Cory Doctorow (yes, him again) posits an interesting idea on publishing, and the value of giving stuff away for free.