Open thread

[onyxhawke]

Two parts:

One;

While i know several of you from elsewhere on the Web, I'm not familiar with all of you. If you'd like please introduce yourself and tell me why you read my LJ. Real names not required.

Two:

Anyone got a question for me? Some questions might not be answered, others might not be answered in a way you'd want...

Comments

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Well, I stopped by because of Masochism Monday, which was much appreciated,thank you.

I'm sure I have plenty of questions, but none are popping to mind just now.

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Ah!!! Stalker!!

Help!

Help!

You Carpe Libris chicks are _everywhere_!!!

[oldcurlywolf.livejournal.com]

OMike,
where did this come from all the sudden? As to why I read...because I enjoy the occasionally twisted way your mind works.

Wolfie

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

As I've been known to point out here and there... I'm an information junkie, if they ever find a way to put it in an edible, injectable, or inhaleable form it better be non-toxic or i'll OD the first day.

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

Hello there. I'm a reviewer/writer with a couple of short story publications under my belt, and I'm here because I love watching other professionals in the field, and seeing what they have to say and think. I came here because Masochism Monday intrigued me. And because someday, I might need an agent.

Or bail money.

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Bail money, sorry i spent that on vodka and maple sugar candy.

As for the other... what do you write novel wise?

[sraun]

I followed you from either the LMB list or Baen's Bar - I think I found you first on the list, and later on the Bar. I tend to friend everyone on LJ that I know from other venues - either electronic or face-to-face - until I've discovered I'm not interested in reading what they have to say. So far, you're nowhere near that point!

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

I think it was the Bujold list, iirc you flisted me after I mentioned to Redlion this gig.

[mckenzee.livejournal.com]

Not sure where I found you, but we have a few mutual friends.

Me, I'll read anything.

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Oh fascinating the one person to reply so far i don't recognize!

[archangelbeth]

I was the grouchy chick on an Arisia panel. You gave me a water bottle and a pen! I still have the pen, but I think my kid has absconded with the water bottle.

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Grouchy?

Love, i hate to break it to ya but i'm less nice in a good mood most days.

[amandatkd.livejournal.com]

Like Wolfie, I enjoy seeing the warped manner in which your brain operates in from time to time [G]. Seriously, I like seeing your point of view regarding the publishing industry.

Besides, anyone who'd torture themselves with MM needs to be watched, for their own good [VBEG]

Amanda

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Heyla sexy, you coming to WFC this year too?

[melindadansky.livejournal.com]

I think I followed you over from sfandf_writers because you said something intelligent.

I'm a writer--I just got back from this year's Clarion West. I'm also working on a PhD in statistics, and I own a farm.

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

I said something intelligent??

And people think _I_ need to be watched.

[tcastleb.livejournal.com]

I came here because sartorias mentioned MM in her LJ and I figured it would be worth participating in (and it was.) I'm staying because it's entertaining. And I also did pick up one of your nifty pens at last year's WFC, and it served me well during the workshop I just went to. All that critting to do.

Questions--um. Can't think of any.

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Oh, hi again.

If i were actually coherent enough to put 1 + 1 together properly i'd probably have recognized you.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

You looked at my novel Machiavelli Moon in your slush pile contest and I figure that an agent's lj is probably a handy thing to peek in on if I'd like to get in the game somme day.

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Ah so thats who you are!

I was curious as to which LJ was yours.

For those wondering...

I do mean what i say in critiques.

[cdpeck.livejournal.com]

I added you when you posted about Masochism Monday on a community somewhere. I'm hoping to get published someday, so I tend to add literary agents, editors, and published authors to my friends list so that I can learn stuff. I figure this way I don't have to like go to college to learn how to be a writer and stuff. ;-)

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

The best advice i can give on getting published is:

Write well.

Edit/Revise to the best of your ability.

Submit.

Remember that luck plays a part.

What do you write?

[woodrunner.livejournal.com]

I forget where I spotted you but I'm sure it was someplace important, where you said something that caught my interest, which tends to be enough to get you on my reading list these days.

I am a minion in the throngs of writer-hopefuls and hope to glean intelligence on what not to do and what to do when I feel it is time to break free from the zombie horde and create my own army.

I don't suppose it's a faux pas if I start a letter to an agent with, "Dude!"?

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

I suppose it would be better than sending me something that started with "Dudette".

So did you send me something for MM or are you polishing something for the regular pile?

[rosencrantz23.livejournal.com]

I came through the back door in the Bar, and stick around because I like reading your flights of creative misanthropy, critique, and even the occasional *gasp* intelligent comment.

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Misanthropy...

Stop using them there polysalabics!! The leave my corpus callosum and cerebellum experiencing astringent discomfort.

[atateatarin.livejournal.com]

*waves*

I can't remember how I found you, but I flisted your LJ while you were doing the Masochism Monday thing :)
I love to read the blogs of folks in the literary industry because not only do the inner workings of the industry fascinate me (and I have this need to overload on information to boot) but I'm also prepping my own MS to query in the near future and I think the best way to avoid being a walking exasperation is to learn from the folks who have a better idea of what they're talking about than me LOL


The shorter version though is - I saw your blog, liked your style and clicked the 'add friend' button :D

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Welcome!

An important thing most people don't realize or don't know about learning to write well is that reading bad writing is just as important as reading good stuff for developing a perspective on what doesn't work and why.


First drinks on the house, the ladders in the garage...

[jamesenge.livejournal.com]

I was drawn here by the ineluctable shmeck of danger. Also Masochism Monday, possibly a more straightforward way of saying the same thing.

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, another of the things in the Slush pile I'm looking forward to.

[taphien.livejournal.com]

I know you from the Bar, found your posts there interesting, and have read your blogs for a while now (definitely longer than I have a LJ of my own).

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

I wish i had time to keep up the politics blog too. Alas... there are somethings more demanding, and less frustrating.

You hopping back across the pond anytime soon?

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Who, me? Just following my it-chose-me vocation ;)

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Saving the world from itself?

[burger-eater.livejournal.com]

Like a couple others below, I found your LJ because sartorias mentioned Masochism Monday and I sent a little something in. I'm hanging around reading because I'm hoping for new insights into publishing and because I enjoy your voice.

At this point, I read my flist mostly for the latter, though.

As for questions: read any good sf/f/m lately?

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Sadly i haven't read much of anything lately. I read HP7 which was really the best of the series, and the latest Bujold that was not in my top ten faves of hers.

OTOH...

Dave Freer's "A Mankind Witch" is on the shelves in paperback, and his collaboration with Eric Flint "Pyramid Power" is out in hardcover. I think i read both of them at least two years ago.

[tharain.livejournal.com]

I'm Don, and I have a few LJs of a literary bent that I read. Your LJ has some good suggestions/thoughts, and so I read.

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Heyla, welcome.

Whatcha reading this week?

shoop

[(Anonymous)]

I found this after finding a vague entry at P&E; it seems quite hard to find SF agents who actually take it instead of just say they do.

It took some doing to find this blog though, since on the agency website, it doesn't actually give Mike's name...

Anyway, I do have a small question. What does one do if they sent the wrong version of their work? The one I sent has a few stupid typos and plot holes and I've since chosen a less stupid title.

Though it probably doesn't matter a whole lot, I imagine. It'll get bounced either way, I think.

Re: shoop

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Resend it. At the START of the subject line insert: replacement for Sub on date and then the rest of the subject line as the guidelines state.

[retterson.livejournal.com]

I am retterson. Retired biotech industry exec, now ambivalent author of speculative fiction. Attended Viable Paradise X is my sole credential thusfar (for lack of trying, I think; I hope).

Friended you when you ran your Will Read Three event. Based on what I've read, you won't like the stuff I write. That's neither good nor bad; it just is.

I lurk here and elsewhere because wisdom and truth come from many places.

[onyxhawke.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I'm a salesmen, my two biggest criteria are A) do I think it will sell [to a publisher] and B] Do I know the right people to send it to to sell it.


There are somethings I just don't like, but do understand their commercial viability.


Anywho, Welcome.