Hey Ookla

[Fellfrosch]

Any word on Blacker Darkness?

[Peter Ahlstrom]

I just asked........no word. She said she would write you...  :-/

[Fellfrosch]

Thanks. Stacer's editor wants to read it, is why I ask.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

*sigh*

Did she write to you?

I think she will read it someday. I thought at the outset that she would read it right away, but this was obviously not to be. Then I thought it had only a small chance of being in line with our target demographic, and now I think that chance is probably less than I thought it was back then. Arrgh.

Simultaneous submissions are bad, but if I were you...I think I'd send it to Stacer's editor. Best scenario is that Stacer's reads it and buys it before my end ever gets around to reading it...

Eh. Do what you want. I am not at all confident of a positive or timely result from my end. But I wouldn't rule out the positive response completely...but the chance must be pretty low.  

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

If there's only a small chance that it'd meet the demographic, I'd formally remove it from consideration by TOkyoPop and send it to Wizards

[Fellfrosch]

She wrote back and told me that she hasn't gotten to it yet, and probably won't until mid or late summer when she gets an assistant. I was pretty steamed, but wrote back politely and said that I know they're just now starting to look at novels, and it's understandable that they don't have the processes in place to do it yet. And then I told I'd be sending it to WotC, and she wrote back and said that she assumed I'd been submitted it other places this whole time. Which made me pretty steamed again, but I'm willing to chalk it up, again, to her being relatively new to the world of original novel publishing.

And I agree with Ookla--it's really too far removed from what you currently do  to really have a chance at Tokyopop.

So now I need to get it all cleaned up and submit it to WotC, which will be hard now that I've just been diagnosed with Carpal Tunnel. I suppose that when my job, my pretend job, and both of my hobbies all involve keyboards, something like that was inevitable.

[Entsuropi]

Dr P gets his first (real) patient!

[Fellfrosch]

No, the eyeballs embedded in my wrist are fine--it's the wrist itself that's giving me problems.

[Entsuropi]

¬_¬

[Spriggan]

We can go cut the hands off some orphens to replace your uslesses wrists.

[Fellfrosch]

Cutting the hands off of orphans is your answer to everything.

[Spriggan]

Well what else am I supposed to do with this surplus of orphans?  After the Orphan market fell out they're just takeing up space in the backyard.

[Fellfrosch]

That's what you get for investing in the orphan bubble.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

/me goes all Anakin with Spriggan's orphans

[Peter Ahlstrom]

I'm very sorry to hear how it turned out. You've got every right to be upset.

I feel really bad now.  

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