Liveblogging Queries Part II
Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.
Hopefully today will be slightly less slushful at work so I can concentrate on these editorial letters I have to write. One is a direct request from the author; I wrote a reader’s report for El Jefe a few weeks ago and he liked it so much he took me out to lunch and then attached it DIRECTLY in an email to the author. The author emailed back specifically asking me to “give him guidance” on where to go next with the manuscript. El Jefe called me “brilliant” in the email which is incredibly flattering, but now there’s all this pressure to live up to that too.
Anyhow, I now submit for some more amusement, the next 25 of the 100+ queries I read yesterday under the cut.
P.S. For those who wanted to know what the “batshit insane query” was, all I can say is that it involved schizophrenia and Anakin Skywalker. I wish I could make this sort of stuff up.
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