. . . or when that writer with her tongue does her foot shoote. . . .

Hope no one took all that too seriously about somebody poisoning the well 
with the agent and so forth.  It was said in my usual sardonic Roseanne 
manner.  It probably isn't happening, although it's certainly a "what-if" 
scenario worthy of a book.

I was thinkin' about how to repair the Camille story if someone else 
mentions that it seems too happy-YA and not magickal enough.  I could pull 
the Philip chapter (chapter 2) opening up in front as a prologue.  It 
certainly gives someone the idea that the "maguffin" is magickal.  Yet I 
kind of hate to do that.  It's skin-crawly cliched to open with a 
tantalizing prologue, then launch into your story that seems so unrelated.

Still, it's the way to make it obvious from chapter one that we have a 
fantasy/dark fantasy on our hands, and that Camille's just oblivious to 
what's really going on underneath.  Something to think about.

Not that I'm going to change it NOW.  I suppose I could go ahead and mail 
it off to someplace.  Luna's out, though--the agent is right about that 
part; Harlequin's not going to buy a story with an underage sexually active 
heroine--so it's kind of up to the SF houses.    At least they still 
take unagented manuscripts.  It *could* possibly, possibly be one that Jim 
Baen would like.  He published all those Rick Cook novels and the C. Dale 
Brittain series, all of which I like, and I think Jody Lynn Nye was with 
Baen for a while.  Could be wrong.  But it's "that" kind of story.

Downside:  Baen is notoriously slow.  Has been known to keep a manuscript 
for two years.  My friend Kathy Turski (who is immensely talented, IMHO, 
yet is like me in that her stories are not the kind that will make 
bestsellers or blockbusters, and is therefore having trouble marketing 
them) has had a fantasy novel sitting with them for going on three years 
now.  However, they had her do some rewrites two years ago, so there is 
definitely interest.  (They asked her to change her title from Wizardsget 
to Raw Magic and make a few changes in the plot.)  She was the first person 
to ever use the term "magicker" in her fiction, that I've been exposed to, 
anyhow, but now there's a series out that starts with "The Magickers," and 
it's a YA positioned to be picked up by fans of Harry Potter.  I saw it on 
the UBS shelf yesterday and got really bent out of shape at the use of the 
word, but then I realized it's probably a term she (Kath) picked up 
somewhere in dealings with Neopagans or maybe in her own reading.  Sigh.

Back to the ChickLit.  Page 54 and it's time for some bouncy, bouncy.  (As 
in "meaty, beaty, big, and bouncy"--obviously a reference to a
porkchop out 
of a Who album title, of course, not what you were thinking!)  My favorite 
song off that album is "Odorona."  Or was that track on that 
album?  (Wandering off to continue the hebephrenic monologue somewhere else)

(As I said, the chiclet, er Chick Lit, is So Much Easier than another 
GDM.  That's goldurn mystery.  Let the left brain just scan for the right 
word and the scansion, and leave logic up to the righty-tighty.)

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