tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546477542650006798.post2119928393196967588..comments2023-10-28T05:55:51.592-04:00Comments on Rick Bylina: "Tied to the whipping post." - A. B.Rick Bylinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10493557860835710721noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546477542650006798.post-74328614353847312612008-02-01T07:34:00.000-05:002008-02-01T07:34:00.000-05:00Verdict passed: No major flaws, a few minor fixes ...Verdict passed: No major flaws, a few minor fixes (less than three hours work), some concerns that I have a first person protagonist with a third person POV major character (after consideration--it stays as is), a minor concern about the length and presentation of the first significant backflash (will break it into its own chapter and see if I can shorten it--lord knows how).<BR/><BR/>Forward into the darkness of interviews today.Rick Bylinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10493557860835710721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546477542650006798.post-29874781565615409422008-01-31T19:50:00.000-05:002008-01-31T19:50:00.000-05:00Good luck, Mr. Rick.Good luck, Mr. Rick.Jack Getzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09516237388744739669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546477542650006798.post-45411656973215745912008-01-31T10:25:00.000-05:002008-01-31T10:25:00.000-05:00Best of luck with the critique group! I was thinki...Best of luck with the critique group! I was thinking about you this morning on the way into work… hoping you'll get a break. Day job, novel accepted, preferably both.<BR/><BR/>Not published (yet), but I have a completed novel in the drawer. It might have been marginally publishable in 1980, when I wrote it, but nowadays saying S&S is saturated is like saying fish like water. I'm considering serializing it as an audiobook if I can find a better voice than mine, or on my blog. But I need to finish <I>FAR Future</I> first, and that's going to take a while.Larry Kollarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317037795075278427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546477542650006798.post-53795410045902944062008-01-31T08:10:00.000-05:002008-01-31T08:10:00.000-05:00Hope your critique group had positive things to te...Hope your critique group had positive things to tell you.<BR/><BR/>I've got four books in the closet. Two might see the light of publishing...they're in my Jeff Resnick series, but my publisher is so s-l-o-w (they won't do multi-book contracts), it could be 5-6 years before they're published--if they accept them.<BR/><BR/>I was a finalist in the Malice Domestic/St. Martin's best first traditional mystery contest with one of the others, and my then-agent advised me to write a second book in the series. They're both collecting dust.<BR/><BR/>I haven't given up, but I might have to go micro small press with those, as my agent isn't enthusiastic about them. (Too many similar books out there.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546477542650006798.post-56378254101359667102008-01-31T06:31:00.000-05:002008-01-31T06:31:00.000-05:00I have dozens of short stories that languish, thou...I have dozens of short stories that languish, though occasionally I drag one out and tinker with it. I also have two young adult novels that I still think are pretty good (though a bit dated now), and if there ever is a demand for my stuff, I might drag them out. They were intended to be a trilogy, so there's that whole unfinished business aspect to them too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546477542650006798.post-32739744715379391502008-01-31T05:18:00.000-05:002008-01-31T05:18:00.000-05:00Hope the thrashing wasn't too painful, Rick. And g...Hope the thrashing wasn't too painful, Rick. And good luck with your WIP! <BR/><BR/>I guess we all have odds and ends in the closet/drawer...I have 1 waiting for a final rewrite, 1 that's going in tonight for a quick snooze, and 1 that's too short to be anything more than a nice story. And getting ready to start the next one...But I'm a rank amateur compared to lots of people!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com