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algHellooooo, LiveJournal & Dreamwidth! So much has happened since I last logged in months and months ago. I have been living in the internet version of a cave, no lie. But, of course, I faithfully update Twitter.
Hitting on the high points -- I'm no longer with Jones & Bartlett Learning, instead returning to freelance editing full time. (Although... if some awesome fiction publishing company wanted to hire me, I would be open to hearing about that. :)) Anyway, it means I'm moving back to NYC, which I have missed desperately this past year, and I'm hopeful that there will be awesome gatherings and readings for me to attend to get back in the swing of things and catch up on everything I've missed.
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c_katherine and I have delivered the Salt and Silver
sequel to several friendly editors -- while we've been told it's not really something the current market would support, once it's been edited, we're thinking about ways to turn it into performance art (public revising! Yeah, we'll see) and get it to readers who have expressed interest. Additionally, we're writing another romance novel -- this one with no paranormal elements, just a lot of weird stuff.
Meanwhile, on Twitter, tonight I was chit-chatting with Cathy Clamp (new Cat Adams book came out today!) and Lisa Spangenberg about the newest kerfuffle -- repurposing fanfic for wider publication.
(Now, I'm pretty open about the fact that I've been reading and writing fanfic for most of my life; I love it and support it; I donate to and volunteer with the Organization for Transformative Works, post my fic to the Archive of Our Own, record other people's works as podfics, regularly post fanfic recommendations to Twitter, etc. I'm a big fan of the "gift economy" -- while, at the same time, I did publish repurposed fanfic as part of Tor Romance (bet you can't guess which books!) and invite fanfic authors to submit proposals for both repurposed and more traditionally original fiction. So -- I don't think my opinion on this issue comes as a shock to anyone paying attention.)
While having this discussion, though, I observed that I've seen some really bitter people saying pretty crappy things about a newly famous piece of repurposed fanfic (Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
). My comment on this was to say something that I wish more people would take seriously. It's sort of a corollary to what I've been saying for years, that the "secret handshake" of the publishing industry is to be a professional. I said:
Free advice: A really good way to network & get attention is to be the kind of person people want to be around & work with. *
I truly believe this and I'm sticking to it. Anybody else have advice in a similar vein that they swear by?
Hitting on the high points -- I'm no longer with Jones & Bartlett Learning, instead returning to freelance editing full time. (Although... if some awesome fiction publishing company wanted to hire me, I would be open to hearing about that. :)) Anyway, it means I'm moving back to NYC, which I have missed desperately this past year, and I'm hopeful that there will be awesome gatherings and readings for me to attend to get back in the swing of things and catch up on everything I've missed.
And...
sequel to several friendly editors -- while we've been told it's not really something the current market would support, once it's been edited, we're thinking about ways to turn it into performance art (public revising! Yeah, we'll see) and get it to readers who have expressed interest. Additionally, we're writing another romance novel -- this one with no paranormal elements, just a lot of weird stuff.Meanwhile, on Twitter, tonight I was chit-chatting with Cathy Clamp (new Cat Adams book came out today!) and Lisa Spangenberg about the newest kerfuffle -- repurposing fanfic for wider publication.
(Now, I'm pretty open about the fact that I've been reading and writing fanfic for most of my life; I love it and support it; I donate to and volunteer with the Organization for Transformative Works, post my fic to the Archive of Our Own, record other people's works as podfics, regularly post fanfic recommendations to Twitter, etc. I'm a big fan of the "gift economy" -- while, at the same time, I did publish repurposed fanfic as part of Tor Romance (bet you can't guess which books!) and invite fanfic authors to submit proposals for both repurposed and more traditionally original fiction. So -- I don't think my opinion on this issue comes as a shock to anyone paying attention.)
While having this discussion, though, I observed that I've seen some really bitter people saying pretty crappy things about a newly famous piece of repurposed fanfic (Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
). My comment on this was to say something that I wish more people would take seriously. It's sort of a corollary to what I've been saying for years, that the "secret handshake" of the publishing industry is to be a professional. I said:Free advice: A really good way to network & get attention is to be the kind of person people want to be around & work with. *
I truly believe this and I'm sticking to it. Anybody else have advice in a similar vein that they swear by?