Freeway Flier
Yesterday up to UCLA for a committee meeting for Mythcon, to see the facilities--lovely. All enclosed, air conditioned! No million mile walks! A charming garden just in case we do get an ocean breeze in the afternoons.
Tim Powers will definitely be there, Farah Mendlesohn is trying to swing it (I hope, because I want to tap her for moderator for a panel on fantasy, collaboration, influence, writers and writing and the fantasy community) as her book The Rhetorics of Fantasy is a finalist for one of the MythSoc awards. We are so energized--it's going to a (lorf, lorf) fantastic weekend.
I have to report that there were not only actual clouds, in June, but there was even some rain (though never where I was, of course) and thunder. I had taken my umbrella, but that thing was just in case there was a million mile walk in the broiling sun. That umbrella has never had rain on it. It's really a parasol, but no one seems to make parasols anymore.
Saw this post about a hidden bird which totally made my day; I will be revisiting that one mentally as I drive around errands today.
Saw through nephele a post on when it's too soon to query agents, by agent Janet Reid which I thought good advice until the last point. No, the last point is probably fine, but I don't agree that if you have trouble getting your synopsis down to a page you have trouble with the book.
My thinking is, how does one do justice to a book that might have a number of subthreads and themes in only one page? A bald plot outline very seldom does any book justice. It has to be a fairly linear tale to be so easily summed up in a page. I could be totally on the wrong bus here--as usual-- so wanted to know what others think.
ETA: nephele's own thoughts here.
Tim Powers will definitely be there, Farah Mendlesohn is trying to swing it (I hope, because I want to tap her for moderator for a panel on fantasy, collaboration, influence, writers and writing and the fantasy community) as her book The Rhetorics of Fantasy is a finalist for one of the MythSoc awards. We are so energized--it's going to a (lorf, lorf) fantastic weekend.
I have to report that there were not only actual clouds, in June, but there was even some rain (though never where I was, of course) and thunder. I had taken my umbrella, but that thing was just in case there was a million mile walk in the broiling sun. That umbrella has never had rain on it. It's really a parasol, but no one seems to make parasols anymore.
Saw this post about a hidden bird which totally made my day; I will be revisiting that one mentally as I drive around errands today.
Saw through nephele a post on when it's too soon to query agents, by agent Janet Reid which I thought good advice until the last point. No, the last point is probably fine, but I don't agree that if you have trouble getting your synopsis down to a page you have trouble with the book.
My thinking is, how does one do justice to a book that might have a number of subthreads and themes in only one page? A bald plot outline very seldom does any book justice. It has to be a fairly linear tale to be so easily summed up in a page. I could be totally on the wrong bus here--as usual-- so wanted to know what others think.
ETA: nephele's own thoughts here.