tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post719271414901202816..comments2024-03-18T09:09:59.625-04:00Comments on Janet Reid, Literary Agent: Query question: when the call isn't The CallJanet Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615380335938685231noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-26589241016752756092015-05-07T19:35:32.876-04:002015-05-07T19:35:32.876-04:00Seems to me like any call would be better than no ...Seems to me like any call would be better than no call or a rejection letter.Annay Dawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08931961028233363261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-29819953146970240232015-05-05T21:20:08.473-04:002015-05-05T21:20:08.473-04:00Awright, Carolynn. I'm sitting here with a mig...Awright, Carolynn. I'm sitting here with a migraine listening to Mozart & Barber's Adagio, trying to focus and get some word count in, and I check in and see that, and all I can think is... where are the rest of the letters? Is that all typo? Namizia? Av fernado?<br /><br />Clearly, I'm either over-budgeted on screen time or under-budgeted on sleep time, or both... but I think I said something about that last week.<br /><br />At least my Louise Perry "Teaching Guide" came in (AKA the next in the Gamache series....).<br /><br />UnCaptcha'd TunaJuliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15041316285692964293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-75737935157375936712015-05-05T20:42:51.395-04:002015-05-05T20:42:51.395-04:00Okay I'm gonna see what I get.
'reCAP, I ...Okay I'm gonna see what I get.<br /><br />'reCAP, I got Namizia, what's that all about ? I want food, bwahhh<br />It Timed out and I got av fernadoCarolynnwith2Nshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18394998702410764388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-61703549703398535312015-05-05T20:25:37.223-04:002015-05-05T20:25:37.223-04:00ReCAPTCHA must be on a diet, Brian. Especially aft...ReCAPTCHA must be on a diet, Brian. Especially after giving everyone else so much food...<br /><br />(Although I've had giggles today, your epic cry for ice cream made me burst out laughing)<br /><br />I got sandwiches again. At least you can always tell the sandwiches - two slices of something bread-like around something food-like...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-57860597334793740282015-05-05T19:32:47.199-04:002015-05-05T19:32:47.199-04:00Haha Angie, that was a WONDERFUL story. I don'...Haha Angie, that was a WONDERFUL story. I don't know why you WOULDN'T share it publicly! Unless of course your former principal reads Janet's blog... oh no...<br /><br />WHAT KIND OF JOKE IS THIS! SELECT ALL THE ICE CREAM AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE ICE CREAM!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-54298378592620405982015-05-05T19:20:32.161-04:002015-05-05T19:20:32.161-04:00Janet, feel free to call me anytime! I'd be th...Janet, feel free to call me anytime! I'd be thrilled to chat with you about anything at all. I haven't queried you, but...wait, is that a prerequisite?<br /><br />Does anyone else get the beer CAPTCHA? I'm supposed to pick out the only glass that doesn't have beer in it. I guess the shape of the glass is the clue, but they all look like glasses of beer to me. It's a difficult task for a non-drinking poodle.Lilly Faye https://www.blogger.com/profile/01212792129632471288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-60898788974324623442015-05-05T18:54:08.556-04:002015-05-05T18:54:08.556-04:00There's no way in hell I'm reading all thi...There's no way in hell I'm reading all this after a day with Mom. Just so ya'll know. <br /><br />Colin - yes, ask Donna about hyperlink failure. (I DID see that.)<br /><br />I just wanted to see if I got guinea pigs on reCAPTCHA.<br /><br />Donnaevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09026536210749494257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-35895388511955602422015-05-05T18:36:49.968-04:002015-05-05T18:36:49.968-04:00Brian, the only computer programming I did was Bas...Brian, the only computer programming I did was Basic in High School. I planned a senior hook day, keg party on Sugar Loaf mountain. Mass printed the message. Keg parties were happened often. I was so proud of myself I'd learned to loop language. <br /><br />No one played hookie because the principal caught word and sent out a message, anyone who did would be suspended. <br /><br />I can't believe I'm telling you this stuff. It's 1 AM and I'm drinking cranberry juice. angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-76170997570211835482015-05-05T17:53:23.929-04:002015-05-05T17:53:23.929-04:00According to the Woodland Creature quiz results:
...According to the Woodland Creature quiz results:<br /><br />"You are an owl. You are a cultured person and probably have some good close friends. People should be wary not to anger you as you will attack."<br /><br />Not sure about that last part.<br /><br />And favorite ReCAPTCHA yet: cats.Karen McCoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02640324898284007337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-51321911561358209442015-05-05T17:17:10.251-04:002015-05-05T17:17:10.251-04:00Brian: That's what I found with my computer co...Brian: That's what I found with my computer courses, too. Even though I didn't go into a programming field, I found it really helped to understand computers. While others were crying, "Why isn't this working?!" I was able to say, "It's because it doesn't understand what you're asking it to do. Try this."<br /><br />It was taking computer science, too, that I realized that most CS students didn't want anything to do with writing. And thus began my technical writing career.<br /><br />I got sandwiches. I hope they're gluten-free. Although the cake I wasn't allowed to choose looked much yummier...<br /><br />It must have heard me. It wouldn't take my OpenID that time, so this time, it showed me cakes. Much nicer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-76045264594234099602015-05-05T17:07:36.889-04:002015-05-05T17:07:36.889-04:00Haha. Thank you BJ!
In college I programmed robo...Haha. Thank you BJ! <br /><br />In college I programmed robots. Not real robots, mind you, but Carol the Robot - a computer language made for one infinitely useful purpose - to make it through a maze.<br /><br />Really the programming language was quite cool - taught me how logic tests work and such. And it had the added benefit of watching a visual robot traverse a maze after you were done programming it. Made me feel accomplished.<br /><br />Then again, I eventually made a super-robot that could traverse every maze by always turning left and they got mad at me and made me program stupider robots that could only traverse specific mazes. <br /><br />Super Robot Brian. <br /><br />(Even Captcha agrees. It just made me identify humans from robots... wow... that was ironic)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-19694364886153437532015-05-05T16:41:09.915-04:002015-05-05T16:41:09.915-04:00I just took Julia's woodland creature test.
...I just took Julia's woodland creature test. <br /><br />I am an owl.<br /><br />Not surprising, but a little worrying. Don't owls eat other woodland creatures? I'm not like that! Honest!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-65829689688561254862015-05-05T16:35:22.033-04:002015-05-05T16:35:22.033-04:00Brian: Love your HTML lesson! Especially the shark...Brian: Love your HTML lesson! Especially the shark mouths.<br /><br />I used to teach HTML. Back in the 90s, when the internet was 'a fad' and right around the time it went GUI (graphical user interface - meaning it wasn't just text anymore, there were fonts and pictures and colours, oh my! And GUI is often pronounced gooey. Which makes loads of sense if you really think about it.)<br /><br />(Those were also the days before a mouse went from woodland creature to click-crazy animal. So... before it got published?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-50306845545826892752015-05-05T16:14:45.572-04:002015-05-05T16:14:45.572-04:00Dude, I'm with you on the "Ziggy Cartoon,...Dude, I'm with you on the "Ziggy Cartoon, Yeah, That Really Happened" thing. <br /><br />Totally.<br /><br />Reality Fish<br /><br />(Seriously, Captcha. I could feed a small nation at this point.)Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15041316285692964293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-76324116282033250332015-05-05T16:13:02.856-04:002015-05-05T16:13:02.856-04:00He he wow thanks for the comforting(s) everyone. ...He he wow thanks for the comforting(s) everyone. My feeling is: best war story ever, right? @Julia - I know it sounds like something out of a Ziggy cartoon, but, yes, it actually happened.Stephen Kozeniewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185600045044927669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-67926849359294777012015-05-05T15:58:04.456-04:002015-05-05T15:58:04.456-04:00Wait...Agents call you?Wait...Agents call you?b-Nyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04190440924186746537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-75554372916257490442015-05-05T15:55:46.888-04:002015-05-05T15:55:46.888-04:00Um. These links aren't showing up as blue for ...Um. These links aren't showing up as blue for me. LOL. The only blue things showing up for me are y'all's names.<br /><br />I give up.<br /><br />Back to my Mystery.<br /><br />I found several "Rules for Mystery Writers" online yesterday, and last night, no kidding, at 4 am, I woke up, my eyes flew open, and I went, "I GET IT!"<br /><br />And now I have a plot that works.<br /><br />So why am I talking to you? Because now I have new Reefers.<br /><br />I typed that before I realized that it worked on one level and not on another. And, yes, I have a kid with Asperger's and ADHD, and I have NO idea where he gets it. :)<br /><br />Maybe I should actually be a Squirrel.<br /><br />Dory Squirrel<br /><br />(Please, Captcha, No More Food!)<br />(Holy Baloney, Batman! Prayer works, not that that's a big surprise to me, I got guinea pigs. And I'm not eatin' 'em.)Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15041316285692964293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-89672013877625778172015-05-05T15:47:13.325-04:002015-05-05T15:47:13.325-04:00Julia,
Well, I can be a ferret then, same amount ...Julia,<br /><br />Well, I can be a ferret then, same amount of mayhem.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-8783303097352725732015-05-05T15:44:19.262-04:002015-05-05T15:44:19.262-04:00As a non user of blogger - here's my helpful a...As a non user of blogger - here's my helpful advice on links!<br /><br />HTML is all about tags. You open a tag, and then you close a tag. The stuff that happens between the open and close tag are what becomes the link or the bolded stuff. Below is my YIPPE tag. It makes everything between the tag happy.<br /><br />YIPEE I'm a penguin /YIPEE<br /><br />But tags always need to be eaten by sharks or they don't work. ALWAYS EAT YOUR TAGS WITH SHARK MOUTHS! (also known as less than or greater than symbols)<br /><br />So Links look like this: <br /><br />a href="http://website.com" <br /><br />with open and closed shark mouth around the above text. Then you need to close your tag with this:<br /><br />/a<br /><br />and use your open and close shark mouths around the '/a'<br /><br />The stuff between the open tag and the closed tag is your linky.<br /><br />You might be doing it completely right but you might not have words between your opening tag and your closing tag so it doesn't have any words to show in blue and use as a hyperlink.<br /><br />That's my lesson of the day! Go eat some HTML with shark mouths!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-15784400360201432322015-05-05T15:43:21.921-04:002015-05-05T15:43:21.921-04:00Julia: What do you mean? Your hyperlink worked. Th...Julia: What do you mean? Your hyperlink worked. There it is in my browser all blue underlined and hyperlinky! Well done. :)Colin Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03292997431935215499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-68370614788366439412015-05-05T15:37:12.944-04:002015-05-05T15:37:12.944-04:00Amy,
I think you have the right of it. As mention...Amy,<br /><br />I think you have the right of it. As mentioned before an agent discussed with my friend changes he wanted made. Basically pull out three main characters and wrote three separate books about them instead of having their stories intertwined.<br /><br />That would be very similar to taking <i>Game of Thrones</i> and doing separate books on main characters. After much thought she declined. <br /><br />Sometimes you just need these conversations to see where everyone is and where they are willing to go. An author should be thrilled an agent is that interested.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-25880422071538575142015-05-05T15:29:42.646-04:002015-05-05T15:29:42.646-04:00Oh, boogers. See? Still can't do HTML. I fail ...Oh, boogers. See? Still can't do HTML. I fail HTML. Utterly and completely. So here's the link. I leave it to others who can do the HTML thing to link it up.<br /><br />@Julie - I'm a badger. I figured I'd be a badger, and I'm a badger. I took a quiz and it said so.<br /><br />Or else an owl. I like owls. And bunnies. :)<br /><br />See? There's a quiz for everything. Even for Wee Woodland Creatures like us.<br /><br />http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-what-woodland-creature-are-you-test<br /><br />Badger Ray<br /><br />Seriously, Captcha. NO MORE FOOD! Give it to someone else. I canna eat na more!Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15041316285692964293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-76914716011341521312015-05-05T15:28:00.538-04:002015-05-05T15:28:00.538-04:00@Julie - I'm a badger. I figured I'd be a ...@Julie - I'm a badger. I figured I'd be a badger, and I'm a badger. I took a quiz and it said so.<br /><br />Or else an owl. I like owls. And bunnies. :)<br /><br />See? There's a quiz for everything. Even for Wee Woodland Creatures like us.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-what-woodland-creature-are-you-test" rel="nofollow">WoodlandCreature</a>Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15041316285692964293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-51318558762069220062015-05-05T15:26:03.279-04:002015-05-05T15:26:03.279-04:00Meanwhile, back at the original question...
I rea...Meanwhile, back at the original question...<br /><br />I read this post a few times, but subsequent readings did not diminish my confusion. The questioner had the chance to have a detailed business discussion about her manuscript... and is angry about it? To fall back on the dating metaphor, the OP is asking the agent to marry her on the first date. Can't you get to know each other first? Is that really an insult?<br /><br />If your nose is already out of joint at this point in the process, how will you survive dealing with an editor, an art director, a publishing house, booksellers, and the many, many other people required to make your book a success but who won't always tell you what you want to hear?Amy Schaeferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17263719891092841767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-73577470464011102312015-05-05T15:11:53.647-04:002015-05-05T15:11:53.647-04:00All right people, just so you know. When we start ...All right people, just so you know. When we start calling woodland creatures, I get the honey badger because...master of mayhem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com