The Swivet [Colleen Lindsay]: Two words that will cause agents and editors to have an immediate aneurysm:

Sunday, February 17, 2008

::: fictional novel :::

(That is all.)

Patrick Nielsen Hayden said...: Surely, a fictional novel is a novel that exists only inside a work of fiction. Like the novel The Grasshopper Lies Heavy in Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle.; February 17, 2008 at 7:38 AM
Cyndi Lewis said...: Uhmmm... so are you saying that stupidity and redundancy hinder my chances of getting published?; February 17, 2008 at 8:02 AM
Brigid said...: When I received my first partial request, I was at work. I couldn't contain my excitement, and I just about knocked over my workstation. Of course, one of my coworkers wondered at the excitement, and I finally broke down and told him I'd written a novel for which I was trying to find an agent. (No one, except my husband, knew until that point.) While I was talking about it, I used the word novel at least three times. To which he says, "Is it fiction or non-fiction?"

Really, until that day, I thought Miss Snark was kidding.; February 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Chris, The Book Swede said...: Better than a non-fiction novel I suppose ;)

I think it's very cool that you're now an agent, it's good to see and hear some of what goes on :D

Scalzi's advice to kids is good, harsh, but good -- only problem is, I'm not that far away from it still applying from me, and damn!, I was going to let you have a look at my novel of fictional fantasy :(

Best,
~Chris; February 18, 2008 at 9:17 AM