Monthly Archives: November 2007

in line to read

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I’m finally caught up enough that I can get in some “reading for pleasure” again, which is a plus as it’s been a long time, too long! I just finished Rex Pickett’s Sideways. Awesome. I laughed myself out of breath and into tears through some passages. Makes me want to look up what he’s done since…Out of my huge inventory of books, I plucked Michael Laimo’s Dead Souls to read next. It’s been languishing on the shelf since its release, and I’ve been dying to read it. While I was perusing the shelves, I remembered I had a copy of Derek Gunn’s Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder; this is going to be my next “for review” read, I believe, if no one else has beaten me to the punch already.

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corbin

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Corbin was on Jeopardy again tonight! That makes twice. :D This is neat, I think. On Jeopardy twice and on a Trivial Pursuit question (in reference to the first Jeopardy appearance).

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trip out of the slushpile

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Every slush reader on the planet has a list of “woes”. I admit, after almost two years of wading through Apex Digest slush, I’ve been slow to create mine. Here, though, are my top six in no particular order.

  • “It was as if” – No, it wasn’t. Either something is or it isn’t
  • Cover letter trying to be humorous and failing badly – Personally, I don’t feel humor has any place in a professional cover or query letter
  • “Suddenly” – My eyes and ears bleed
  • Poorly addressed cover letters – ie, those submissions which come to a specific editor – When you submit directly to a specific editor, your submission is forwarded to the actual submissions pool
  • No cover letter – I get these quite often, the rogue submission with no cover letter whatsoever, and I’m always left going, “HHmmm.”
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