"I need the darkness. Someone please cut the lights." (3)

[greygirlbeast]

As days off go, yesterday was a day I truly would have been better spent working

Comments

[joshrupp]

So ... what was the book?

[greygirlbeast]

So ... what was the book?

"Now, I will not tell you the name of the author, the book's title, or the publisher."

[robyn_ma]

[redacted by commenter]

Thanks for the hint. Will avoid.

[greygirlbeast]

Thanks for the hint. Will avoid.

You're welcome.

[joshrupp]

Yeah, but that's like saying, "Somewhere in the world there is something just awful. It's kind of like a centipede robot bomb. Good luck with that."

[greygirlbeast]

"Somewhere in the world there is something just awful. It's kind of like a centipede robot bomb. Good luck with that."

Exactly. But not really. Read robyn_ma 's comment. I've done all I can do.

[strange_selkie]

Naming names will only give it traction (or start a wearisome flame war). Google "YA seven figures" and it'll come up pretty quickly.

[shantih]

The way I see it, if The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation could be published as YA - as indeed it was (and I loved it) - then your distinctive voice can't possibly be too thorny, or too difficult, or too stylized for YA to embrace.

[greygirlbeast]

then your distinctive voice can't possibly be too thorny, or too difficult, or too stylized for YA to embrace.

We shall see.

[sovay]

The way I see it, if The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation could be published as YA - as indeed it was (and I loved it) - then your distinctive voice can't possibly be too thorny, or too difficult, or too stylized for YA to embrace.

Agreed. The style is pitch-perfect eighteenth-century memoir; the subject matter is horrific and subtle; it is a razor-intelligent book. In some ways, I'm not sure why it was ever published as YA, except for the age of its protagonist, but I appreciate immensely that it was.

[greygirlbeast]

I'll have to find this book (though I have precious little reading time already).

[nykolus]

FYI: newsletter from SubPress this morning is sporting "...the nearly completed dust jacket illustration" for TWaIB. i likes what i sees so far!!!

[greygirlbeast]

FYI: newsletter from SubPress this morning is sporting "...the nearly completed dust jacket illustration" for TWaIB. i likes what i sees so far!!!

No one tells me anything.

[nykolus]

i figured. sorry!!!

[greygirlbeast]

i figured. sorry!!!

It's no big deal.