Being A Writer On the Internet (Complicated! Augh, So Complicated!)
Thanks to y'all for the very thoughtful response to yesterday's post! It got mentioned on the Publisher's Weekly blog, so I am currently feeling famous
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Guilty ships in books? *thinks* Not really - I tend to unabashedly ship who I ship, and want it despite any deep unlikelihood! I was reading Kelley Armstrong's Waking the Witch this week, though, in which characters Adam and Savannah are separated by eleven years, and he's known her in a friend-of-the-family capacity since she was twelve (she's now twenty-one) and I did feel a LITTLE ashamed to be charmed by it since significant age difference on that level is usually a turnoff for me.
Dudes being patronising to their partners is a surefire turnoff, though. Do not want!
I'm not sure I know what you mean vis a vis 'where I started'? I mean, I started knowing nothing, as everyone does, but writing books and wanting them to be published and slowly gathering information from friends, family, then the internet, then through an internship and friends in publishing. (This one wonderful former editor at Tor, Anna Genoese, taught me all I have ever been able to learn about the maths of publishing, and some of the first things I learned about editing.) But I may be misunderstanding your question!
I wish I had known that it is a good idea to have something firmly in mind for your cover, so you can ask for that. Which is not to indicate dissatisfaction with my covers! But at the time they asked me if I had thoughts, I (not a visual person at all) just gaped like a fish. And people I know who have had an idea that was then turned into awesome I feel they seized the opportunity better than me and my fishmouth!
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I agree so hard with this sentiment.
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