tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post115413169652332551..comments2024-03-26T18:28:06.391-04:00Comments on Evil Editor: Face-Lift 139Evil Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03879826770199639420noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154459801956681122006-08-01T15:16:00.000-04:002006-08-01T15:16:00.000-04:00Dontcha just love how people make generalizations ...<I>Dontcha just love how people make generalizations about other posters based on little more than an assumption about their gender from a nom-de-blog?<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>Who made an assumption about your gender, jeb? I sure didn't.<BR/><BR/>I also fully understood your sentence, and your use of the word "genre"--which was why I responded by saying that there's no need to judge the entire <I>genre</I> based on one thing.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps you don't think claiming a particular genre is inaccurate all the time is a slur. I do, but I certainly wasn't getting antsy, saying that there's no need to judge an entire genre based on one thing, since your comment seemed aimed specifically at this query. Had you mentioned you were a regular romance reader, I wouldn't have thought that. <BR/><BR/>Your gender (as opposed to your genre) had nothing to do with it.<BR/><BR/><BR/>If you've read anything at all on my blog, you'll know that I consider readers and their opinions pretty much sacrosanct.Staciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07969399927758009095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154459655509855792006-08-01T15:14:00.000-04:002006-08-01T15:14:00.000-04:00"Blossomed into ... toast" - Bwhahahahahahaha! I l..."Blossomed into ... toast" - Bwhahahahahahaha! I love it.<BR/><BR/>I am confused as to what a dirk actually is though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154388871430065512006-07-31T19:34:00.000-04:002006-07-31T19:34:00.000-04:00"Dontcha just love how people make generalizations..."Dontcha just love how people make generalizations about entire genres based on one query for an unpublished novel?"<BR/><BR/>Dontcha just love how people make generalizations about other posters based on little more than an assumption about their gender from a nom-de-blog?<BR/><BR/>I'm female and have spent considerable portions of my reading time, for more than 30 years, wading through unrealistic scenarios in historical romance novels. Hence the word 'genre' in my original comment.<BR/><BR/>Is Mercury retrograde or something? This is the about the third time today I've seen writers getting antsy about imagined slurs through not comprehending all the words in a sentence at the same time. And I've only visited three blogs so far.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154376126418679172006-07-31T16:02:00.000-04:002006-07-31T16:02:00.000-04:00Anonymous --This version of my query/synopsis suck...Anonymous --<BR/><BR/>This version of my query/synopsis sucks... but since you're not May Chen at Avon (at least I hope you're not), I'm not TOO discouraged.<BR/><BR/>December --<BR/><BR/>CORRECT! My heroine was abandoned to her step-mother, a Shawnee Indian, after her English Lord of a father drank himself to death.<BR/><BR/>This query sucks, admittedly, but the manuscript has garnered me contest finals. Obviously the whole thing needs work.<BR/><BR/>Thank you, EE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154374080967710022006-07-31T15:28:00.000-04:002006-07-31T15:28:00.000-04:00I dream about being a princess. Maybe I'm really a...I dream about being a princess. Maybe I'm really a princess. No, no it only works like that in stories. Damn you, Cinderella!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154356413670833412006-07-31T10:33:00.000-04:002006-07-31T10:33:00.000-04:00It started promisingly, but...And the writer needs...It started promisingly, but...<BR/><BR/>And the writer needs to learn how to use a semi-colon. I would've rejected it on that alone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154328521380977552006-07-31T02:48:00.000-04:002006-07-31T02:48:00.000-04:00And dontcha just love how this genre overlooks oth...<I>And dontcha just love how this genre overlooks other practical matters, such how a woman raised by natives on this continent in the 1810's would automatically fit in seamlessly with London's haut ton of that era?</I><BR/><BR/>Dontcha just love how people make generalizations about entire genres based on one query for an unpublished novel?Staciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07969399927758009095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154311250925139882006-07-30T22:00:00.000-04:002006-07-30T22:00:00.000-04:00Well, I guessed the right plot from among the fake...Well, I guessed the right plot from among the fakes. (I liked number 3 the best, though.)<BR/><BR/><BR/>Other than that, I can't say much. EE's revision is much better, but this isn't a story that grabs me. And the synopsis in the original query convinced me that I did not want to read this story. Sorry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154303696218426462006-07-30T19:54:00.000-04:002006-07-30T19:54:00.000-04:00I will confess to being the nitwitted minion who s...I will confess to being the nitwitted minion who sent Evil Editor that gawd-awful attempt of a "short" summary as a query letter. I took my previous blurb and tried to add more information. Too much, obviously and by so doing, not enough...<BR/><BR/>I apologize for not reading the rules on word-count beforehand. I like EE's rewrite, but it sounds like his voice, not mine. Of course it does!!! However, I can get there from here.<BR/><BR/>Thank you, Evil Editor -- xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo<BR/><BR/>Cathy<BR/><BR/>P.S.: I love the Writing Round Robin thing you've startedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154298190392614362006-07-30T18:23:00.000-04:002006-07-30T18:23:00.000-04:00"Scotia is still impenetrable... and the couple’s ..."Scotia is still impenetrable... and the couple’s bliss soon fizzles."<BR/><BR/>If staying in a dank, draughty castle filled with armaments of war isn't enough to get the woman in the mood, there's not a lot of marital bliss going on.<BR/><BR/>As for whatsername's being 'discovered' to be related to Robert the Bruce, isn't that a bit backward? Her lineage would have had to be established before the beginning of the book. Courts Probate don't normally hand over castles, however ruined, to just any returning colonist with a good story.<BR/><BR/>And dontcha just love how this genre overlooks other practical matters, such how a woman raised by natives on this continent in the 1810's would automatically fit in seamlessly with London's haut ton of that era? Although some might say that your average laird didn't have the couth for London either....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154297637668076002006-07-30T18:13:00.000-04:002006-07-30T18:13:00.000-04:00I was the toast of the ton once, then discovered W...I was the toast of the ton once, then discovered Weight Watchers.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps this query would do well on a Weight Watchers diet, too.<BR/><BR/>lsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154295336556201322006-07-30T17:35:00.000-04:002006-07-30T17:35:00.000-04:00You really need to find a way to make money from t...You really need to find a way to make money from this effort, EE.Kananihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317494343177263398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154289237579064032006-07-30T15:53:00.000-04:002006-07-30T15:53:00.000-04:00Why is it always the Shawnee who get landed with t...Why is it always the Shawnee who get landed with these lay-about Brits?<BR/>When I saw her first name I had hoped for something Nova...Bernitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264585685253812090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154286260702010322006-07-30T15:04:00.000-04:002006-07-30T15:04:00.000-04:00I love the idea of the beginning conflict, with he...I love the idea of the beginning conflict, with her dreams of living like a Princess and him wanting to get rid of the eyesore (although I wonder how she knows about castles and stuff when she was raised in a Native American village. They were kind of low on information about Europe.) It doesn't sound like there's a lot of conflict in the rest of the novel, though--you want to emphasize the continuing conflict between them in a query.<BR/><BR/>Stirling Castle isn't in London. The writer is probably aware of this, but when you say they went to London (why?) and then say they're at Stirling Castle, and then mention London again, it gives the wrong impression.Staciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07969399927758009095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1154285961341598122006-07-30T14:59:00.000-04:002006-07-30T14:59:00.000-04:00Someone was taking advantage of EE's good-but-evil...Someone was taking advantage of EE's good-but-evil nature by disguising their synopsis as a query letter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com