tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726688121062378014.post8023446858157697950..comments2023-04-09T09:38:17.640+01:00Comments on Writing, Life and the Universe: The rewrite, continued ...Angela Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708737998692926877noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726688121062378014.post-16328380340186056542011-09-06T11:13:50.852+01:002011-09-06T11:13:50.852+01:00Dear Simon,
Bless you for the comment about SPEAK...Dear Simon,<br /><br />Bless you for the comment about SPEAKING of LOVE at the end of your review of THE EARTH HUMS in B FLAT ... I'll order it immediately, the title's intriguing and beautiful, I agree, and perhaps it's the mother-daughter relationship in the novel - guessing from your review - that also put you in mind of SPEAKING of LOVE.<br /><br />And I promise to ask the publishers to send you a copy of WRITTEN in WATER when it is published. But you may have to be patient for a little while longer ... once my agent has found a publisher it usually takes about a year but on that happy day they may decide to speed up the process because of the anniversary ... we shall see.<br /><br />And the very best of luck with your conference paper. I'm sure you'll excel.Angela Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708737998692926877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726688121062378014.post-21397354113836690382011-09-06T10:37:39.592+01:002011-09-06T10:37:39.592+01:00Hi Angela,
Thanks so much for your quick and full...Hi Angela,<br /><br />Thanks so much for your quick and full reply, just the sort of update I was hankering after! It sounds really positive - your relationship with your editor sounds like the sort that most writers would give their left leg for, so hurrah for that :)<br /><br />Very selfishly, I am desperate for you to find a publisher, because I am desperate to read this!<br /><br />I'm well, thanks - doing some writing myself this week, but on a much smaller scale - giving my first proper conference paper next week (argh!) for a middlebrow conference. <br /><br />And I thought of you because I've just finished The Earth Hums in B Flat - have you read it? I don't know quite why, but it made me think of Speaking of Love.<br />SxStuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726688121062378014.post-48806429334425903692011-09-06T01:17:14.833+01:002011-09-06T01:17:14.833+01:00Dear Simon,
You are so thoughtful to ask ... my b...Dear Simon,<br /><br />You are so thoughtful to ask ... my blog has suffered - as is obvious from my lack of blogging - for the rererewriting of my second novel. But the manuscript is now with a brilliant freelance editor who's been working with me (it's still called WRITTEN in WATER) since last November. She's been asking me questions and making the kinds of suggestions a writer dreams of. She's not at all prescriptive, but she has a knack of helping me see the mss objectively which is a difficult thing to do when you're in the thick of it. I think she's quite wonderful and I hope she'll agree to work on every book I write from now on. <br /><br />The manuscript she's reading at the moment is - I fondly hope - the final draft and when I've made any last changes she suggests my agent will do her very best to sell it. But the competition's hot now: there are two <i>Titanic</i> novels already out and two more coming out in April 2012 (the 100th anniversary of the tragic sinking). So ... we can only hope there's a publisher out there who feels confident that mine will add to the collection.<br /><br />And then I move house.<br /><br />And then I begin my third novel whose working title is FOR THE LOVE OF LIFE. <br /><br />I hope all's well with you? Not only have I not blogged I haven't visited any blogs either (except Dovegrey's for the W&P readathon). But I will again soon.<br /><br />Best,<br />AngelaAngela Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708737998692926877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726688121062378014.post-6348351517207375232011-09-05T22:48:11.867+01:002011-09-05T22:48:11.867+01:00Hi Angela - any updates??
xHi Angela - any updates??<br />xStuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726688121062378014.post-53422866309303359502011-03-20T10:55:39.843+00:002011-03-20T10:55:39.843+00:00Good quote isn't it? And thanks for your comme...Good quote isn't it? And thanks for your comment about my blog, Rick.Angela Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708737998692926877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726688121062378014.post-27490590625194986842011-03-18T18:47:15.721+00:002011-03-18T18:47:15.721+00:00Thanks for the Patterson quote. I needed that refe...Thanks for the Patterson quote. I needed that reference for a short piece on getting started as a writer I am going to offer on my blog -www.thewritersuniverse.com. Very timely. Nice blog, by the way.<br /><br />RickThe Writer's Universehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02072872055183378154noreply@blogger.com