Yes, we’re back to this again.
I guess it’s good to know that if Adam decides to toss me, the blue collar workers of America will be waiting in the wings to scoop me up, but these encounters remain 10% flattering and bizarrely complimentary; 10% insulting to my inner (and outer?) feminist; and 80% creepy and uncomfortable…
And so it ends. I got my last short fiction rejection for the group of eight that had been sent out. This rejection was from Zoetrope All-Story, and was fully expected, as Zoetrope is a literary magazine of the highest order – recently Wes Anderson had a piece published…WES ANDERSON!…I cannot compete with Wes Anderson!
Ahem. Anyway, so suffice to say I wasn’t surprised. What did totally surprise me was the shockingly encouraging handwritten note on the back. If you’re gonna get a rejection, that is the kind to get, so thank you Zoetrope, for um, rejecting me.
So I don’t feel so bad, and already have another piece in mind to revise and submit to them (even though it seems like aiming for the sun). I’m actually in the process of editing/revising/rewriting a whole new batch and sending them out again.
Wish me luck…and for the record, here’s the new count:
1 for 8
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Sadly, even though it is BAD I’m still pretty interested in it. Despite the fact that they didn’t handle much well in the entire first season I keep finding myself wondering how they will handle the interesting things to come in the second season. As a matter of fact, I have so much to say about this show that I’m going to do another post today about it…I would do it now, but I don’t want to delay Rabid Lamb any more than I have already…
Yeah, this has happened. A lot. Especially with this latest book, which I have to say, is just too big to be enjoyable to read. I mean I like the content, but it’s really hard to just relax and read it. On top of being over 600 pages it is about six inches wide and eleven inches tall and almost three inches deep. Too big I say!
Anyway, I’m with Paul, so far I hate this new wordpress dashboard/ navigation. I’m sure I’ll get used to it and find all the benefits (I assume they’re there, otherwise why woud they change, right?), but so far it’s just frustrating…and posting images is particularly frustrating…which makes me really really glad I have a daily comic I have to post. Whee!
There was some suggestion yesterday that I wish Adam would share Civilization, and I suppose in a way this is true. I don’t mind that he is playing a game that he loves, it’s just such an obsessive game that when he plays it I end up feeling massively left out of…well, everything. He doesn’t really like to have conversations when he’s playing (concentration), and it keeps him up to all hours, and I don’t know, there’s just very little connecting or communicating going on between us while this game goes on. I feel like when he is writing, or reading, or watching tv (other than Magic games), or a million other things he does in the apartment, there is more communication, more activity and exchange of thought between us. But not when he plays this game. And THAT is why I hate Civilization.
But it makes him happy and so I’ll just sit back, let him play, and write mean comic strips about it…
I’m actually almost glad he’s back to playing Civilization, as it makes for some of my favorite strips…here, here, here, and here even! But I’d happily give up the strip fodder if he could just hear what I’m saying again. It’s shocking how hard it is to have a conversation with him when he is playing this game. And by hard, I mean impossible.
I LOVE cake batter flavored ice cream. I believe I first had it and discovered how ridiculously freaking delicious it is at Cold Stone Creamery a couple years ago, but Ben & Jerry’s has gotten wise, and it was delicious. It would have been better without the chocolate stripe, which, while good, tasted (as advertised) like chocolate frosting…and I think a fudge stripe would have had a better blended flavor. Considering that we’ve so scientifically established my incredibly refined palette I think Ben & Jerry’s should take my advice…Ben & Jerry’s you can send my royalty checks as soon as you implement the new formula. Thank you.
Hmm…think you’ve stumbled onto the wrong comic (mostly because you’re shocked to be seeing COLOR)? No, but April Fools!
The above strip is a little cross-promotion fun that Paul Abbamondi of My Life Comics and I came up with…we cartoonists really know how to have a good time don’t we? Paul actually came up with the idea and suggested it to me, although I think he was inspired by Adam’s guest strip a few weeks ago.
It was a great suggestion though, especially since I LOVE another blog called Pencils At Dawn which is a “competition” between two insanely talented cartoonists Mike Jacobsen of See Mike Draw and Phil (no last name?) of The Rut, as they battle it out by drawing competing cartoons/strips and posting them on their Pencils At Dawn site, it’s a great idea, and they are by far two of the best cartoonists I have found on the web.
Anyway, Paul and I humbly offer up our meager cross-promotion April Fools Day fun for your enjoyment – to get the full effect please go over to his site as well and check out the cartoon I did for his strip.
There’s a great article over on the vulture blog about the amazing writer Jhumpa Lahiri. If you’re a fan, or interested in becoming one, check it out.
Ah, rejection. There’s nothing like the smell of rejection first thing in the morning on your way to your writing group. Sunday I got a little form rejection card on the query for my novel to a huge agency. Since it was for a HUGE and seriously major house, and my work is not necessarily mainstream, I’m not really surprised, but it’s still a bummer.
Here’s the latest summary:
#1: Partial Requested and Rejected. Door left nicely open to submit my graphic novel when further along (it is sadly not further along).
#2: Never heard from them, which is frustrating as they show a 3 -4 week turnaround and I think I got lost in the shuffle (or am up on previously mentioned “laughing board”). I have also submitted this “no reponse to a query, though they say they will get back to the sender regardless” question to an “advice” blog, called The Rejecter…one week out.
#3: Dead. No response to email query. I’m considering it a rejection.
#4. Requested Partial. Sent Partial (first five chapters) via mail about ten weeks ago – no word yet.
#5. Full Requested. Sent Full via mail about seven weeks ago – no word yet.
#6. No response to email query as yet, about ten weeks out.
#7. Rejection to regular mail query from HUGE agency, about a ten week turnaround.
#8. Rejected Query.
So, 3 Rejected Queries; 1 Rejected Partial; 1 Requested Partial; 1 Requested full; 2 Queries still living in limbo…not so bad, although worse than the last time I posted an update. Please continue crossing your fingers and holding your breath for a couple more months okay? Thanks.
