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Re: Publishng: Meet our Author, Brian Joseph Davis

clindsay — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:36:04 -0000

The most important thing in this whole piece is the fact that he wrote a great hook. If every writer that sent me a query wrote a pitch like this one, more great books would get published:

"Dunning is an art school dropout and lifer intern who has $300,000 in stolen grant money in his hands and two choices. If he gives it back to the arts foundation he used to work for, he’ll implicate himself in a decades long fraud that goes back to the cold war. If Dunning redistributes the money to its rightful owners he’ll risk changing into one of the wealthy, paternalistic monsters he despises. Before he can decide, Dunning also has to survive his ex-boss, Kruger, who is cleaning up loose ends, any way he can.

The Incompetents is part neo noir, part art essay, and a wholly original view of high culture from the bottom up."

Seriously, THAT'S exactly how long a great query should be.

Re: I <3 Being an Editor

clindsay — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:08:36 -0000

You can tell her that I for one am still TERRIFIED of robbers! Especially the ones with Hamburglar masks!

Re: <i>FishbowlLA</i>: Jeff Goldblum for Best Actor? - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

clindsay — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:14:38 -0000

I love Yoram Kaniuk! A wonderful writer.

Re: Is Your Local Indie Bookstore Blogging? - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

clindsay — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:09:41 -0000

McNally Jackson here in NYC has a very good blog: http://mcnallyjackson.com/

Re: Stuff White People Might Like, If They Knew It Existed - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

clindsay — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:04:25 -0000

I would add Minister Faust (he's AMAZING!), Nalo Hopkinson, Steven Barnes, David Anthony Durham.

Re: Should Layoffs Be Publicized? - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

clindsay — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:43:04 -0000

Look, the monkey is dancing again!

Re: The Scariest Books - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

clindsay — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:36:07 -0000

Chasing The Dead by Joe Schreiber. I read it as a manuscript originally, and it freaked me out so much that I slept with the lights on for three nights.

I've given copies of that book to several friends, all of whom had the same kind of experience. It's a short read - the whole story takes place over the course of one car ride at night - but the dread builds to the point that it becomes almost painful. Also, it has the distinct honor of being the only book ever to have made me actually sit up and shriek.

Yeah, not proud of my wussy moment.

But such a good book!

Re: Black Tuesday - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

clindsay — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:28:54 -0000

Wow. Radio. How innovative

I hear they'll have little boxes with pictures that talk one day, too.

Re: Black Tuesday - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

clindsay — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:06:54 -0000

Cliff -

Your personal inability to flourish as a published author and your obvious bitterness about it apparently have dampened your ability to be objective about an industry that you clearly despise. It's a good thing, then, that you chose to self-publish, as you lack the needed professionalism to BE a published author.

People get into publishing for one reason only: because they love books. They go into it knowing full well that it is an underpaid and unstable form of employment. Why? Because they love books.

Nobody in publishing, and nobody who's ever been laid off from a job, deserves the kind of contempt and idiocy you've shown in this post.

Re: After 20 Years, Nick Cave's Second Novel is Coming - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

clindsay — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:33:14 -0000

Your memory is not faulty, sir. And the Ass Saw the Angel was one of the best books I read that year and I was always sorry to see he'd never followed up with another. The news that he had a new novel coming out pretty much made my whole October!

Re: <i>PW</i> Loses Some People, Gains Aggregate Web Content - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

clindsay — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:48:00 -0000

So, in other words, Book Life will do exactly what my Google Reader is already set up to do.

Re: The Lace Reader's Dirty Linen - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

clindsay — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:28:49 -0000

I think an acknowledgment would have been nice but honestly? The whole idea behind a publicist's job is to promote the book and author, not the publicist.

Re: From Shakespeare to Ragnarok, Elizabeth Bear Keeps Busy - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

clindsay — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:20:20 -0000

Oh, look! There is the infamous Presumptuous Cat, too!

(And if you haven't read DUST, her latest from Bantam, you are seriously missing out on an amazing book.)