Comments | markteppo: Payday

markteppo

Payday

Aug 11, 2009 18:15

The Check That Is In The Mail? I got it today. Along with a note from my agent that says (and I'm going to quote him because it speaks very highly of Scribe's perseverance): "One of the original state goals of Scribe when we first started out was: find that one guy who wrote that cool ass book and get it published. That 'one guy' was of course ( Read more... )

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dawtheminstrel August 12 2009, 01:58:45 UTC

Go going, Mark. And Kris too. It's the long distance that tests the runner!

silk_noir August 12 2009, 02:12:26 UTC

I saw it at Borders today. Nice. Starts out wierd and doesn't let up.

markteppo August 12 2009, 02:38:23 UTC

I'm all about the hook. By the time you realize what you've stumbled into, it will be too late. Muwahahahaha!.

yolandasfetsos August 12 2009, 09:13:43 UTC

That's an amazing story. :) Congrats to you and your agent!

starchy August 13 2009, 02:44:50 UTC

That's an awesome story about an awesome story. Better not be such a long delay next time, though.

markteppo August 13 2009, 03:31:06 UTC

Feb 2010 for Heartland (the half dozen passes at happened in '96 and '97, not that I've kept any of them). After that, it is Angel Tongue in 2011, the first 2000 words of which I wrote last week, and I've got solid titles, ideas, and thematic arcs for books 4 - 8. Yeah, the time between you and me is getting much shorter.

darinbradley August 13 2009, 17:40:04 UTC

A very great chapter in the Mark Teppo story, sir.

Speaking of LB, just read this last night: "He smiled, his red tongue hanging between his burn-blackened lips."

You sly, cross-narrative-pollinating dog, you!

markteppo August 13 2009, 17:49:50 UTC

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Wait till Samael shows up in Heartland. The meta-pollination makes my head hurt.