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Post by Chirugal on Sept 12, 2006 18:21:52 GMT
Ooh, you have WIPs? Tell us all about them! Not that I'm really nosey or anything...
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Post by miladyinsanity on Sept 13, 2006 9:40:41 GMT
I'll let you know when I post the short story up (cross your fingers that I get it up by All Hallow's Eve). That's all I gotta say. I'm soooo going to enjoy writing a synopsis and query letter when the time comes.
Also, Marianne, if you read this, I've been seeing your books everywhere here! I've seen all 3 Parrish books, brand new UK editions, at 2 different library branches and one of my fave bookstores has all 3 of them too.
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Post by Chirugal on Sept 16, 2006 1:48:16 GMT
Yay! I'd love to see your stuff.
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Post by marianne on Sept 16, 2006 11:28:08 GMT
Hey there MLI,
that is great news! Thanks for letting me know. The hardest thing for a writer is shelf presence. Might be a great book but if its not on the shelf....
bests
MDP
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Post by theblindartist on Sept 16, 2006 13:23:12 GMT
I really hate posting in introductory threads. Never know what to say. Here goes everything...
G'day all, I'm TBA. Most people call me TBA. Feel free to call me TBA. I spend the majority of my time counting corporate money and checking numbers. The rest is spent off in my own little worlds. Actually, counting numbers is boring as hell, so I actually spend all my time off in my own little worlds. Some of them I hope to get published eventually.
Other than that, I troll forum RPGs. They are my crack. Actually, caffiene is closer.
Ok, I think I'm out of things to say, other than Hi.
Oh, yeah, I'm also a Parish fan.
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Post by Sheyana on Sept 17, 2006 4:19:36 GMT
Hey TBA! (cool name!)
counting corporate money and checking numbers sounds absolutely GRIPPING!
Can we hear/read/see some of the stuff from your little money-counting words sometime?
Post wherever, its great to have a new member and we'll endeavour to keep things alive.
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Post by Chirugal on Sept 17, 2006 21:23:00 GMT
Hi TBA! Good to have a fellow caffeine addict here. ;D
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Darkhorse
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leave'em where they lie...
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Post by Darkhorse on Sept 18, 2006 2:06:51 GMT
Nice to see new blood once in awhile.
TBA, Sheyana said, Can we hear/read/see some of the stuff from your little money-counting words sometime?
IF we're talking about you taking your work home with you, I'm in for a shoe-box. Non-sequential numbers, and assorted denominations of course.
Futerhmore, for those asprining or aspiring writers,( dame keyboard or damn keyboard) any ways, Black Library as in Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 books has an open entry contest and is looking submissions for their next SF anthology. For those of you not familiar with their stuff it mostly dark, gothic, science fiction. Yes, it would require you to familiarize yourself with their world but it's still an open entry opportunity.
You can find them at blacklibrary.com Something to think about anyways?
Oh and Marianne, I know it's probably not your thing ( and possibly in conflict with your current responsibilies etc, ) but those guys could use a great artist like you to pen a couple of books. There's couple of pretty talented guys in their queue but I'd match your work with anyone. And I'd love to see what you would create in their Universe.
Take care , God speed.
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Post by Sheyana on Sept 18, 2006 3:46:24 GMT
ooops, I meant to say worlds, not words...hope it didn't cause too much confusion (blame it on my words runnning together in my head please!)
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Post by marianne on Sept 19, 2006 9:10:19 GMT
Hi Darkhorse, as always, nice to hear from you. I'm quite interested in writing movie and game tie ins, but the reality is that they are very hard to come by. The writers who do them tend to have the market sewn up. I actually made some tentative enquiries into BSG novelisations but I think I am probably a long, long way down on the wish list. I would think that WARHAMMER is even harder. Of course if you all lobbied for it... MDP
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Post by marianne on Sept 19, 2006 9:38:44 GMT
Hi TBA,welcome welcome! and get cracking on that novel.
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Post by marianne on Sept 19, 2006 22:27:42 GMT
Actually, further to that DH (an coincidentally), I just read an interview with Matt Farrer who writes for the Warhammer franchise. I met him at a con in Canberra and he kindly bought my books. He had this (below) to say about Parrish which was not only nice but incredibly insightful. It's amazing how some people think that the series is simplistic because the charcters speak in slang and the descriptions aren't verbose. "As for who I'm reading at the moment, just yesterday I finished bingeing on Marianne de Pierres' “Parrish Plessis” trilogy, a racy Australian cyberpunk series. I really admire the way she combines a high-speed narrative with so much depth and detail in her plot and worldbuilding. It's so seamless it's easy to miss until you stop and look around you and realise what an excellent fit each detail is with every other one. Must have taken a hell of a lot of work." Matt Farrer in an online interview for the Black Library forum. Read the rest here: forum.blacklibrary.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8680
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Post by miladyinsanity on Sept 20, 2006 18:58:16 GMT
A friend of mine, who's an editor for an e-publisher, told me that she couldn't wait for Crash Deluxe (she lives in the US) to be released, so she ordered it from the UK.
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Post by marianne on Sept 20, 2006 21:31:02 GMT
Hi MLI, always nice to hear that an editor likes the books they tend to be the harshest critics. What sort of e-publishing? Fiction? MDP
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Post by miladyinsanity on Sept 21, 2006 19:00:05 GMT
Angie's ( www.nicemommy-evileditor.com/blog/) an editor at Samhain Publishing ( SamhainPublishing.com). I think she edits mostly romance (don't take my word for it, it's just my assumption from what she's said about her work on her blog). Oh and you guys can call me May. I forgot to put that in my signature.
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