More fooey. At least I didn't have to wait a long time.

[ritaxis]

Small Beer doesn't want my book.

They have a couple of things to say about it -- stilted, too much infodump. I promise I'm not going to go into a defensive tailspin. I usually like the book, I usually think I got it about right. But. If somebody doesn't like it, then I wonder. I know there's taste. But. Oh, just, fooey.

I wonder if it's the dialog -- which is written in a Spanglish future slang, and the protagonist has trouble expressing himself? Or the narrative? If it's the first, well, I don't think there's anything to do about it. I worked really hard to get those people to sound just like that. Just. Fooey.

I don't know what to do next.

I'm going to Potlatch tomorrow, but now I don't want to. I want to stay home and cry.

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I think I found something else to do next. It's a long shot, but it's better than nothing. There's an editor at Ace who will accept query letters, and it says he likes hard sf and sf with romantic elements. Well, it's not all the way hard, but it has that technology prominence I think hard sf usually has, and there's a great dealm of business about the implications of terraforming and environmental manipulation. And it has a whopping big romantic element -- the protagonist is all romantic (though his romantic vision isn't to be part of a couple, but to have a lover within a communal household, because that's the kind of scoiety he lives in!) Anyway, I'm redoing the query letter again.