And myself to administer the beatings. Well, in reality I would give stern lectures in a louder voice.
Hopefully while pointing with your pipe!
25 years? Wow...and I thought my 18 was bad!
Well as it turns out me mam got me dad this really expensive silver chain. She give it him this morning an' he asked her "What you been an got me a dog collar for?" Charming. ?_?
you should write tact on a brick and throw it on the back of his head in the hope he might learn some.
Niceee. My boyfriend's brother is getting ever closer to being published by Tor Fantasy. He's gotten the "We like your book and we want to publish it, but due to fiscal reasons we can't. We'll publish it on Kindle though."
Sort of odd, but I can understand that they don't have the resources for physical copies. (Supposedly their regular authors are all publishing books this year so he has to wait for an opportunity. Terrible, but also good?)
edit: Apparently they offered him the opportunity to find a new publisher if he really wants to publish a physical copy (I can't imagine that he'd make quite enough just on Kindle sales alone). In some ways that is cool because they want to see it published as much as he does, but he is also set on moving to Sweden [or another country similar to Sweden]where Tor is located.
Your trip to Beijing, China (PEK) is confirmed.
Yeah he doesn't have an agent. He sent it just to see if he needed one or not. He was very close to just going on Linkedin and advertising for someone to be his agent (he was thinking of just hiring a few people and having them all deal with publishers, so I have no clue.)
Yeah I suppose, it's a pretty big series he's got planned. If he didn't get any definite answers he was just going to publish it on the internet himself and hope for interest. He's already got his own fanclub on the internet and whatnot. (They have sent him a ton of fan art of his characters from over the years... One made a mug of all of their artwork for him. It's really pretty nice. He treasures all of it and keeps it in a special spot in his room.)
Right now he's thinking over what he really wants to do, but he just got the letter.
edit: Oh yeah and the book he sent them is over 900 novel pages long. About 250+ MS Word pages.
When I get a chance I'll try to see what he says about getting an agent (maybe more of a professional that has dealt with other clients). His other "great" ideas were to have my boyfriend or his uncle be the agent (or both). Let's just put it this way, publishers probably wouldn't dealing like either because neither have experience as such and for other things. The uncle is old and grumbly and has been a computer programmer for 20+ years... And my boyfriend's just ridiculous.
I mean, it's still quite great that he's finally seeing his dream of writing his book series being done. About two weeks after he finished book one he already started work on the next book.