Comments on: Back, from the future…

By: Marianne de Pierres

Marianne de Pierres — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:12:00 +0000

good thing you followed up.
Fingers and toes crossed.

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:12:27 +0000

Marianne, I’m absolutely certain it got lost. Bernadette now has an electronic copy and has written to confirm that it arrived (bless her!)

I can only think there’s a Bernard Fowler of Hatchet Street, Sydney who had a really nice surprise in the post last month!

By: Marianne de Pierres

Marianne de Pierres — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:22:45 +0000

If you sent it on the 10th of June and she hadn’t received it – that seems an awfully long time. Are you sure it hasn’t got lost?

By: j-a

j-a — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:55:04 +0000

good luck with the manuscript, graham, and well done on submitting it. i look forward to hearing how you go, and to reading it in print one day.

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:34:43 +0000

I sent mine to Bernadette on 10th June and since then have been chewing my nails, my hands, and my desk, waiting for a reply. So I emailed Bernadette a few days ago and she tells me she hasn’t even received it!!

Aaaaaaarrrggggghhhhhhhh!!!!

All that agony for nothing. And now it has to start all over again!!

Is it any wonder I’m using so many exclamation marks ?

Somebody shoot me, please.

By: Marianne de Pierres

Marianne de Pierres — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:02:18 +0000

Hi Guys,

when to send your manuscript is the ‘how long is a piece of string’ thing. But be brutally honest with yourself. If you are, you’ll know whether you can do better.
When you’ve got to the stage where you’re just shuffling words around – there’s a good chance you’re done.

MDP

By: bribiewriter

bribiewriter — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:35:15 +0000

Way to go, Luke, I agree about next year. Let’s go! i’m afraid after my long service leave being spent on the MS I’m not sure what else to do with it. I feel I could always go back and tweak but where do you stop. For better or worse i have sent Bernadette and email tonight (!) saying its finished. I rang Kate at QWC and she recommended the intital email to bernadette in case she wants it sent vis email. Marianne’s comments are haunting me now.

As a friend of mine once said, and I think I have this right- Poo, bum, tit, fart, enema!

terry

By: Janette

Janette — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:06:06 +0000

Oh no, quick update – Luke we only have 26 days to get our manuscripts finished!!! The Large Hadron Collider in Europe is due to be activated in 27 days and some people think it’s going to end the world by creating black holes…

But happily Graham says it’s okay because they will be tiny and disappear before they can destroy us. Right Graham?

I hope.

By: Janette

Janette — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:58:33 +0000

Hey there, bit of respect – these guys could be your biggest fans one day.

Never underestimate the power of an enthusiastic costumed groupie. Just ask Joss Whedan how important his mad fans were in keeping the Firefly / Serenity dream alive.

Though I confess a rabid Klingon of either gender is a scary prospect. Give me an Ewok any day (hahahahaha, JUST KIDDING folks)

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:41:49 +0000

Hmmm. Klingon chicks have never been that appealing. Except maybe that once on NG when everyone’s fantasies were coming to life and Worf dreamed up this big, feral…

Still, I’m sure the games and the off-piste conversations were far more interesting.

No. Really.