Goodness. Image Comics just turned Chance down. I’m completely taken aback, mostly because I didn’t expect to hear *anything* from them. It’s a direct little rejection letter saying, in essence, “Good try, but not good enough.” On the positive side, I just turned the galleys in… (eta: let me mention that I’m not crushed, destroyed, or hurt or anything. I’m really just startled. I’m sort of like, “Well then! Guess that’s that!” O.O)
blee
This is not the stage of the manuscript when you want to be working through it and finding whole pages you’ve marked up with red ink. In theory you’ve moved well beyond that by the time you get to the galleys. Ahahahah. >.< Usually I don't have quite this many markups. OTOH, usually I haven't rewritten a book four or five times. There's stuff where I just managed to not see that I'd screwed up the punctuation after revising a scene eight hundred times, or where a sentence that made…
a very pleasant evening
I had a very nice afternoon and evening yesterday. I went into town with Ted and parked myself at a cafe to work for a while. Right about the time that it was clear I was going to fall asleep, arrived and we talked non-stop for two and a half hours. :) She reminded me greatly of Emma Thompson, only with red curly hair* and an Irish accent. It was incredibly enjoyable, and I am very glad to have met her. I am also very glad that Livejournal exists, because…
better than whacking myself on the big toe with a hammer
Forty pages. I can manage about forty pages of AAs at a time, and then my brain just goes numb. And I have read this book so freaking many times that sometimes I can’t tell if a bad turn of phrase is me or the copy editor. Sometimes it’s clearly me. Others, like when the word “husky” unexpectedly appeared to describe what I am sure was originally a dropping voice, are clearly the CE. The cases in which I as a writer would use the word ‘husky’ are far and…
hmph.
I need an idea for a new comic book that I can put together a few pages for for this contest and win. :) I mean, I’ve got the team for it, no question. But I’m too attached to Chance. While I know that most work in the comics industry is work for hire, I’m coming from the book industry and the idea of handing over my rights wholesale makes my head spin. So I need something I’m less emotionally attached to. Unfortunately, right now I got nothin’ and the…