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polijn

Joined: 28 Nov 2007 Posts: 63 Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject: Making Light |
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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. _________________ "The Alliance ain't the good guys. They're the opposing faction." ---Sam Shepherd or Stephen Howie
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david-de-beer
Joined: 28 Dec 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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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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david-de-beer
Joined: 28 Dec 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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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
Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 17
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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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

Joined: 28 Nov 2007 Posts: 63 Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas
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