tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655889105820772060.post7249799094514290650..comments2023-10-17T16:44:08.588+03:00Comments on Fake Plastic Souks: HarshAlexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14141884153180374138noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655889105820772060.post-62313699527976360722009-02-03T06:48:00.000+03:002009-02-03T06:48:00.000+03:00You're a bad man, Nick. And one day the pixies are...You're a bad man, Nick. And one day the pixies are going to get you.<BR/><BR/>Now I am going to buy that book.<BR/><BR/>"Unpublished authors often cite the case of John Kennedy Toole, who, unable to find a publisher for his novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, took his own life. Thereafter, his mother relentlessly championed the book, which was eventually published to great acclaim and earned him a posthumous Pulitzer prize for fiction.<BR/>Yes, we say, that is a strategy, but it is a strategy that demands a remarkable level of commitment from the author's mother, and an even greater commitment from the author. And, of course, it puts a serious crimp in the book tour. But even more to the point, it will work only if you have in fact written a masterpiece that awaits only the further enlightenment of the publishing industry and the reading public to receive the treatment it deserves."Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14141884153180374138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655889105820772060.post-460354729574180182009-02-02T17:42:00.000+03:002009-02-02T17:42:00.000+03:00Alex, this book (by Sandra Newman and Howard Mitte...Alex, <BR/>this book (by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark<BR/>Penguin £9.99 pp262)<A HREF="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article5565968.ece" REL="nofollow">How NOT to Write a Novel</A><BR/><BR/>got very good reviews.<BR/><BR/>It's not a hint or anything...huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09299456569511629114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655889105820772060.post-37061554285334392009-02-02T17:33:00.000+03:002009-02-02T17:33:00.000+03:00You have to admit that the editor has a point in t...You have to admit that the editor has a point in their first paragraph. Authonomy is one big popularity contest, not so much in terms of who likes who the best (or their writing) but he who reviews gets reviewed in return and moves up. <BR/><BR/>That's what the site is intended for, and Patty worked the system. Her blog says it all - she devoted weeks to reviewing people on Authonomy and was pleased when her comments reached the 500's. Nevermind that half of those comments weren't reviews, but thank yous for her reviews. She worked the system and is disappointed by what she won.<BR/><BR/>Just because that's the way Authonomy is designed to work doesn't mean the editor has to sugar-coat a review meant to discuss whether or not the book will find a publisher, especially with HC. <BR/><BR/>Yes, the review was blunt and you found things to nit-pick in the writing, but this is also an editor being forced to review something that would have been weened from the slush pile and never seen their desk via the normal route. Keep in mind that HC may have volunteered to review books that make the top five, but individual editors may not have had a choice.<BR/><BR/>I also noticed many of the reviews HC editors gave to books they actually enjoyed still said the book would need to find a home somewhere else. There's no explanation why the editors at HC won't pick the book up if it's so great. At least with their review of Seeing Red they gave a detailed reason why they wouldn't publish it. I think honestly is being confused with brutality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655889105820772060.post-86856683101633350272009-02-02T15:06:00.000+03:002009-02-02T15:06:00.000+03:00okay... the theory is that someone asked the Edito...okay... the theory is that someone asked the Editor's cat, Mittens, to knock up something quickly... Mittens being a cat found writing quite hard, and was unable to comment sensibly upon the book in question because she hadn't read it properly (being a cat, she can't read either... but doesn't let this unfortunate happenstance stop her...) so she was forced to fall back on something (anything) else to toe the party line. Which is, if the people like it, we bury it.Mockingbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241527559864367117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655889105820772060.post-84121307178051046922009-02-02T14:12:00.000+03:002009-02-02T14:12:00.000+03:00"Scene" from "central casting?""Scene" from "central casting?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655889105820772060.post-90814955965063518382009-02-02T14:07:00.000+03:002009-02-02T14:07:00.000+03:00Those who can, write. Those who can't...Those who can, write. Those who can't...Seabeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06939892206726271433noreply@blogger.com