Er, yay?

[avevale_intelligencer]

So, taking advantage of Hodder's two-week open submissions window as mentioned in my last post, I've submitted Tetrad, Oonaverse, Return To Argenthome and (with Soren's permission) The Overly Obnoxious OIK Operation. Just finished cudgelling the synopsis on that last one into two pages and emailing it.

And I scroll down my friends list and I see at least two, possibly three, posts about how we need fewer books by white straight middle-class men. (Well, what they say is more books by people who aren't w.s.m-c.m., but traditional publishers' lists and budgets are finite and dwindling whatever they tell you, and more of one thing means less of another.)

Good thing I got Jan to submit Bookwalk too.

Wish us luck.

Comments

[tig-b.livejournal.com]

Good luck - you deserve it.

And somehow you don't look like a straight, white, mc man to me. Probably because you are Zander, not part of an amorphous boring group?

[eintx.livejournal.com]

The world definitely needs books by you. Lots of books. Trust me.

[lastalda.livejournal.com]

Crossing all available fingers for both of you!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Very good luck to you both.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[patoadam]

Luck! (The good kind.)

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

I say that if the straight, white, middle-aged men write excellent, highly readable books, then we need MORE of them, not less.

I'm tired of stumbling over inept writing that people gush over just because it's not straight, white, middle-aged and male.

I just want good books.