Unfortunately the publisher I sent parts of the manuscript to have passed, with this pleasant (and rather quick) letter to that effect:
Thank you for sharing your work, The Grand Adventures of Daisy Donnie, with us.
Unfortunately, this manuscript is not quite what we are looking for at this time.
Please keep us in mind for any future submissions.
One [...]
Archive for December, 2009
18
Dec
2009
My first rejection
04
Dec
2009
Very neat: book 1 submitted for consideration
I’ve gotten off my ample arse and started submitting DaisyDonnie to publishers.
The first off the bat is Edge and Tesseract books in Canada who specialise in Science-Fiction and Fantasy novels. One of the major problems I’ve had with Daisy Donnie (other than a singluar inclination to actually buckle down and submit the book to a [...]
04
Dec
2009
Who are Daisy and Donnie?
True, they are members of the Penfolde family, but that isn’t revealing much.
They have a terrible past, but let’s be honest here — who doesn’t?
Granted, at twenty one and a bit, they’ve had their fair share of parties, drugs, running and encounters with famous people… but they can’t be said to have a lot of [...]
04
Dec
2009
That’s better
DaisyDonnie has been suffering of late. I haven’t been here for a good month what with being busy with writing lots and lots of words in the right order to make new stories.
But a facelift was in order, and I hope you like it. No longer are there the interminably long menus, dropping off the [...]
There are a few ways to describe one's self when effectively trying to mask the fact that you're a complete hermit and spend your entire existence behind a computer screen sipping hot tea and eating cakes. The first would be to suggest that you're somewhat introverted and avoid coffee. Another might be to suggest you're a fan of Apple Macs but are cutting-down from the 6 you used to have to an even two (Macbook and Mac Mini in turn). Finally you might choose to say that despite the massive pay-drop, this writing thing is quite a lark isn't it? Not to mention enjoying the creative life a lot more than mindless tedium in corporate jobs, working the 40 hour week to the drumming of endless meetings and political intrigue that would have made Machiavelli blush and hand his pen over to the corporate slugs that run companies these days. Enough said really.
