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[erastes]

Standish ended up in (joint) 15th Place on the Editors and Preditors Poll

http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/votenovelother06.htm

Not bad, out of a couple of hundred entries! thank you to all wot voted.

Nice to be called "Mainstream" (boggles a bit at that)

I wish I'd heard of any of the 14 place winners above me, though! Roll on the Lambda short list....

Comments

[erastes.livejournal.com]

trouble is, I don't think I've sold anything literary enough to enter for it. My short stories are a lot less literary and more porny than the novel.

There's still time though!

Thanks, hun

xxx

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Why not mainstream? Would you look for Wuthering Heights in "Romance?"

Congratulations!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*blushes furiously*

And I think I saw Ransom did well too! Yay for us!

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, #20 in Romance, and I still wonder if that was the right category. But considering I forgot it was nominated, that was a pleasant surprise.

Your book is giving me fits, btw. I really feel for Ambrose--poverty in the era of debtor's prisons was horrible and added to poor health it's a wonder he survives--but I haven't been able to work up any warmth toward Rafe. I always want to throw a bucket of water on brooding, morose heroes, or do the fish-slapping dance at them. But he annoys me the same way Lymond did, so it's not a matter of good/bad story quality, it's just that the guy's a thoughtless nitwit when it comes to sex (realistic enough, I grant you, but I wouldn't want him courting my brother.) My significant otter thought Standish was a bit like some of George Sand's work, but more open about what was going on. In other words, Standish isn't something I'm going to go back to and read for relaxation, but I am going to be recommending it.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I think the difference is that Rafe is un-redeemable, no matter what happens in the end. Oh he may "adore" Ambrose etc etc, and that's fine, but what worries me is that he's just not going to change - and it's Ambrose who is going to have to adapt around Rafe.

He is led by his cock, and he thinks - always - that money can do anything.

And yes, I've thought entirely too much about this, and I do worry about the pair of them, even now, which is why I can't do a sequel about them. Fleury, now, that's a different matter al-to-gether.

I'm dying of the giggles imagining you doing the Monty Python fish slap dance with Rafe....

Thank your S.O. INCREDIBLY for one of the nicest compliments I've ever had EVER - specially after the really bad review the book got today which I'm absolutely NOT going to advertise!!!!

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see Ambrose find a rich boyfriend who isn't a sex addict. It's not a happy ending for Rafe, but if he can't learn self-control he's going to sabotage every relationship he ever has.

Sail Away's not coming out well in reviews right now, either; the first story wanted to be a novel and I probably should've gone ahead and let it go. Live & learn..

Ransom's good reviews began to worry me until I ran across someone who was cheesed off that I didn't go into detail with the rape scenes. I think if you write something that gets no ill response at all, either you've got Pulitzer material or it's so bland nobody can find anything to fault.

And sometimes a bad review is just someone wanking--like the slam Dorthy Parker threw at Katherine Hepburn - "her performance runs the gamut of emotion from a to b." Rotten for Hepburn, but Parker later admitted she didn't remember the play at all and only used the line because she liked how clever it was.

Standish didn't get the P&E kudos for being a bad book.