Thick Skin my arse

More rejection! I feel like the spotty fat girl at the school dance, or
when teams are being picked. No-one wants my baby werewolf who doesn't
understand what's happening and why everyone is Cross.

Miss Snark is running her 3rd Crapathon tomorrow, and I've got my query
letter and first pages all ready to go to be dissected by an expert. It's a
rare chance that she'll even pick mine to dissect, as she's "Only"
(Only!!!!) doing the first 100, but I'm going to give it a go.

I don't think it's a bad query letter, it certainly doesn't say any more
than it needs to, and it's a hell of a lot pared down from the burble I used
to put, but the weakness might be in my synopsis.

Or, or course... my writing!

I've done five crits now for the new Crit group. I know I'll slow down
after a while, but I'd like to get a few chapters of my own up there, and I
have to crit 3 for every one of mine I place. Trouble is, even in chapter 2
there are ... swellings, and talk of masturbation, so I've had to take it
out with "DELETED TEXT" on it. And I've said that if anyone wants the full
versions, to ask.

I haven't had any critiques for chapter one yet though. *frets impatiently*

Books n Stuff.

Happy Birthday asthemistclears! Hope you have/had a great day!

I worry about Britain. Now downloading violent porn is going to be illegal. I'm sure they were talking about images, but I bet some arse either forgets to preclude fiction or slips fiction in. Look, of course I don't want real people to be really beaten up for other people's titillation, but there IS another side of that, too.

ALSO: Blair plays Big Brother/Brave New World. Someone shoot him. Please?

The Scream is found! About time too!

Whee! Heard from Iris Print, Connections is nearly done and contributor's copies should be on their way in the next week or two. Cheques too, of course, but my cheque is very tiny, as the story is very tiny, so I've said that she can contribute it to charity if she can't pay me by Paypal - it would cost me more than the cheque is worth to pay it into my bank account, so it's not worth doing.

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OMG - have you seen SQUASHED writers? What brilliance!!!