Luna says no
Nov. 2nd, 2005 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperSo there I was, about to head out the door with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird to go down to Lake Forest Park and run some errands, when I saw the mail truck coming up the hill to our house.
This is not normal behavior, given that our mailbox is actually down at the end of our little cul-de-sac and on the opposite side of the cross street as well. So I got ever so slightly worried, since I wasn't expecting anything to arrive, especially when we saw the mailman get out of the truck with something that was big enough to hold my manuscript. Dara wondered if it was perhaps the moccasins she'd ordered arriving--but no. Although it wasn't the actual envelope I'd sent off with the manuscript (which it turns out was apparently too small, oops), I knew what it was the instant Dara saw the address label on it and read off the word "Harlequin".
There's an excellent rejection letter in it, with some good feedback on why Faerie Blood didn't quite work for this specific editor. Most importantly, there's an invitation to send along any further projects I'd like Luna to consider. So now I need to think extremely hard about what else I might send Luna; I can't send them Lament, since I don't think The Dove, the Rook, and the Hawk will fit into their imprint. They're not doing SF, so neither of my skiffy novels will quite fit them either.
But I'm seriously, seriously considering whether something I wanted to write anyway--the origin story for Millicent, one of my Faerie Blood characters--would interest them. It'd be fun to write, because it'd be a "period" urban fantasy, set in 1950's Seattle. I may have to up that in priority enough to see if I could get together a coherent enough pitch and synopsis to send this guy a proposal.
In the meantime (she said, doggedly squaring her shoulders), I've got to keep plowing through Lament, because getting this manuscript back changes NOTHING in my plans for getting that book finished. And I need to decide whether to send Faerie Blood off to Baen or Daw next, or some other publisher entirely.
Five months, one week is the new turnaround time to beat. And I've gotten my first personal, non-form rejection letter. Not too damned bad for only my second time out.
solarbird to go down to Lake Forest Park and run some errands, when I saw the mail truck coming up the hill to our house.This is not normal behavior, given that our mailbox is actually down at the end of our little cul-de-sac and on the opposite side of the cross street as well. So I got ever so slightly worried, since I wasn't expecting anything to arrive, especially when we saw the mailman get out of the truck with something that was big enough to hold my manuscript. Dara wondered if it was perhaps the moccasins she'd ordered arriving--but no. Although it wasn't the actual envelope I'd sent off with the manuscript (which it turns out was apparently too small, oops), I knew what it was the instant Dara saw the address label on it and read off the word "Harlequin".
There's an excellent rejection letter in it, with some good feedback on why Faerie Blood didn't quite work for this specific editor. Most importantly, there's an invitation to send along any further projects I'd like Luna to consider. So now I need to think extremely hard about what else I might send Luna; I can't send them Lament, since I don't think The Dove, the Rook, and the Hawk will fit into their imprint. They're not doing SF, so neither of my skiffy novels will quite fit them either.
But I'm seriously, seriously considering whether something I wanted to write anyway--the origin story for Millicent, one of my Faerie Blood characters--would interest them. It'd be fun to write, because it'd be a "period" urban fantasy, set in 1950's Seattle. I may have to up that in priority enough to see if I could get together a coherent enough pitch and synopsis to send this guy a proposal.
In the meantime (she said, doggedly squaring her shoulders), I've got to keep plowing through Lament, because getting this manuscript back changes NOTHING in my plans for getting that book finished. And I need to decide whether to send Faerie Blood off to Baen or Daw next, or some other publisher entirely.
Five months, one week is the new turnaround time to beat. And I've gotten my first personal, non-form rejection letter. Not too damned bad for only my second time out.
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Date: 2005-11-03 03:42 am (UTC)In the meantime, I need to send this gentleman a thank-you note. For this is absolutely the kind of rejection letter that requires a thank-you note!
Thanks much for the words of support, hon! Very much appreciated. :)