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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]

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.