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General => Everything Else => Topic started by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 03, 2005, 07:33:48 PM
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So I'm working towards becoming a fantasy editor. (This means, of course, that in a few years everyone will want to be my friend! Goodie!)
I'm fully prepared to start being your friend NOW if that means it will pay off later :D
After all, it seems to have worked with Stacer.
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Shrain, I believe I met you at LTUE, if you're the former student of EUOL's I'm thinking of. How do you like Boston? Where are you living? LP1 or 2?
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e: I accept your offer of conditional friendship with unconditional enthusiasm.
Stacer: yep, that's me. We met at LTUE after one of Brandon's panels.
Anyway, I'm really liking Boston. I've gone on a trolley tour and wandered around taking photos. The Common is fun, and I like how easy it is to get around on foot. If only I had some money, I know I'd love the shopping out here! As for money, I did get a partial tuition scholarship, so that's certainly a great help.
By the way, I was sort of disappointed when I found out you moved all the way to Seattle! I'd been thinking we'd get together once I got out here. But I'm glad you found a job (and finally got all your stuff delivered by those movers....)
To answer your other question, I'm in LP1. Actually, the way I found a place to live was through Bishop Lazenby. He directed me to the ward's housing website. Immensely helpful. So my roomie, Rozanna, and I go to church together.
By the way, I met a friend of yours. Evan Thacker. Cool fellow. I'm the ward newsletter editor (yippie!), and so I met with him in order to get details about my calling.
I actually live in Quincy--barely 1/2 block from the beach. Great view of the city skyline. Very pretty at night. Rozanna and I share the 2nd level of this house. Extremely spacious. Big kitchen, a washer and dryer (no coins!), large living and dining rooms. Of course, her two little weiner dogs make the place seem really small sometimes. They're cute but not what you'd call well-trained.
Once they got into my zipped up backpack to get at this granola bar wrapper and, in the process, decided that my ipod earbuds looked tasty. Grrrr! The earbuds were the expensive kind with the silicone earpieces. I fully expected Rozanna to step up and pay to replace them. Nope.
"I wasn't here to supervise them," she protested. Hmmph. So what, they're still her dogs, right? Oh, well. Still, we get along pretty well. I'm glad to be out here. Still adjusting to things but I know this is where I want to be. :)
Thanks for saying "hi."
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Bishop Lazenby is awesome. So is Evan, and so is his fiance. You'll run into a lot of my friends--Jamie is a great girl who you need to know, as is Melanie, and Melba, and .... so on. :) And you must meet Jorge. Etc.
I miss Boston very, very much right now. It's rained here all week, and I'm in a new ward, etc. But I love my job, and things will improve, I'm sure. I have a feeling I'm not done with Boston yet. Perhaps someday I can come back and work for Candlewick. :)
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Hey. I think I met Jamie already. Can't say for sure. I know Jorge, though. He's a first rate guy. I had bronchitis a while back and when my home teachers couldn't come out to give me a blessing, he came himself with his roommate. So great of him. :)
I'm sorry you miss Boston so much! It's funny, but watching General Conference made me terribly homesick for Utah. That's when I was struggling with bronchitis and a huge amount of homework. So it all combined to make me feel really low. :'( But I'm doing much better now with everything.
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I have a feeling I'm not done with Boston yet. Perhaps someday I can come back and work for Candlewick. :)
Candlewick! I love Candlewick Press. *gush gush* Ever since I met one of their editors at the UVSC Forum for Children and Literature two years ago. I can't remember her name...I have it written down somewhere...and she's Rick Walton's editor, I could always ask him. Anyway, she worked on the Dragonology book, so she may have done the other -ologies--Egyptology and the new Wizardology. Those books have been on my wish list forever.
Actually, the fact that Candlewick Press is in Boston was one of the reasons that I seriously began to consider Simmons--I wondered if I could get hired on there if I did my grad work in the same city. Stacer--is Candlewick pretty difficult to get a job for, being a smaller press?
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At least that's what Janci implied the next day when I talked to her while you were getting ready to present your paper.)
If you're going to post things you have no buisness posting on the board, leave me out of it.
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Actually, the fact that Candlewick Press is in Boston was one of the reasons that I seriously began to consider Simmons--I wondered if I could get hired on there if I did my grad work in the same city. Stacer--is Candlewick pretty difficult to get a job for, being a smaller press?
Chimera, I interviewed there at the beginning of my program and my program was one of the reasons they didn't want to hire me. Simmons is very deceptively time-consuming. You only take 2-3 classes a semester, which only meet once a week, but you spend most of your time in a library or reading or writing. It's a full-time job, and Candlewick didn't want to juggle it. They needed someone committed to the job itself.
By that time, I was overqualified for the EA position I was interviewing for anyway, and they wanted someone who wanted to stay in the position for a while, rather than looking to be promoted quickly. And they do a lot of their promoting internally, so you really have to hit them at the right time.
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So Stacer, I need to pick your brain for a sec. The book I'm working on is about a 19 year old who just finished her first year of college. Do you think I could market that YA? The more I write it the more I suspect maybe I can't, but I don't write long enough books to sell mainstream, and my voice is very YA, and so is my pacing. Which means I may be writing a book I'll never be able to sell.
What do you think?
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I think as long as she's still in her teens and thinking like a teen, you market it to YA. When I was a teen I loved reading about girls in college. It's a combination of character age, voice, and subject material that makes it YA.
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Okay. Cause I originally tried to write this story with her at 22, as an adult book, but everyone kept telling me it sounded like YA, and the story works better with her at 19 anyway. I think that's just where my voice is.
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I think it's fine. There are plenty of YA books out there with protagonists just entering college, or even a little older. Teens like to read up--they're looking forward to college, so reading a story about someone in college can be something they're looking for.
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If you're going to post things you have no buisness posting on the board, leave me out of it.
Whoa. My sincerest apologies, really. :-[ I didn't think it was a big deal. It was a simple misunderstanding at the time, and I just thought it was funny. I didn't think it reflected poorly on you or Stacer or else I wouldn't even have mentioned it, period.
I mean, we've all probably mistaken someone's identity before. ("Hey, Kate, how's it goin'?" / "Uh, I'm Jamie." / "Oops, sorry.") That said, I'd be happy to modify my post to delete that part. In fact, I'll take care of that right now. Again, sorry I offended you.
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By the way, I met a friend of yours. Evan Thacker. Cool fellow. I'm the ward newsletter editor (yippie!), and so I met with him in order to get details about my calling.
Looks like Even gets around, I know him too. Unless there's another Evan Thacker running around out there. He was un my MTC district, went to the Hokkaido Japan mission.
Also there was no need to delete the whole post, you could have just deleted the sentence.
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Ah, so you and Evan are missionary buds. Cool. Too bad he probably won't be in the ward much longer for me to get to know him much better! (I'm not sure how soon until he ties the knot and "graduates" from the ward.)
Oh, and I did delete only the sentence, not the whole post. Thanks, though. :)
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Sprig, it's the same Evan. You and I have talked about how we both know him.
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Thought so, just wanted to make sure.
Oh, and I did delete only the sentence, not the whole post. Thanks, though.
Then why is the first post you made missing? The one SE quoted and replied to.
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He quoted that from the introductions thread.