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polijn



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:19 pm    Post subject: Making Light Reply with quote

TOR publishers Patrick and Teresa Neilsen Hayden have an itereseting blog site at Making Light.

The entry Slushkiller is a few years old, but interesting and helpful anyway.

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david-de-beer



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yup, love reading Making Light.

Patrick blogs on livejournal too, but very very seldom, it's

http://pnh.livejournal.com

some of the most informative blogs I've found are agent blogs, my favourite being Nathan Bransford and Kristin Nelson
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh, ah, just a (possible) correction - to the best of my knowledge the Nielsen Haydens are TOR editors, not the publishers.
TOR is/was published by Tom Doherty, I believe. Not sure if they're a subgroup still of Pan-MacMillan but I think so, fairly autonomous anyways.

but yeah, they're two of the editors for TOR, along with Heather Osborne that I know of.

not the publishers though
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distantvoices



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some quite sad stuff to read on that site.

If a professional editor 'd tell me that albeit he/she considers my book quite good there's no chance to get it published due to production constraints, I'd say wohooo, it ain't crap.

If an editor told me: Hey, we want it This way, with less words and with no wagging-the-finger-at-people (is that aequivalent vor didactism?), I'd say heck, let's have a look, for complex things ain't complicated, instead of whining somewhere in public about the but so unfair editor. Damn, these are working people like me.

I used to write in complicated sentences - long winded, hard to read stuff - for that's a kind of gift for me. it sometimes shines throu, despite all the self-constraining. Can't help it, be I forgiven. But when I'm writing, I think: keep it simple stupid, not complicated. Ppl don't wanna read complicated sentences.

BTW ... tell ya, I couldna hold back anylonger ... I'm back at writing. Seven years of not doing it IS ENOUGH! And I'll never ever let go of it again!
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polijn



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

david-de-beer wrote:
oh, ah, just a (possible) correction - to the best of my knowledge the Nielsen Haydens are TOR editors, not the publishers.
TOR is/was published by Tom Doherty, I believe. Not sure if they're a subgroup still of Pan-MacMillan but I think so, fairly autonomous anyways.

but yeah, they're two of the editors for TOR, along with Heather Osborne that I know of.

not the publishers though


You're very correct. I just used the wrong word. Like movie producers and directors. I get those mixed up too. Very Happy I KNOW the difference, it just comes out of my mouth/keyboard the wrong way. (I failed my driver's test when the lady told me to make a right turn and I took a left. Sometimes my brain just leaves me.)

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