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.

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Oh, pooh! Commiseration on the rejection. I haven't read any of your stuff, but from the way you talk about it, it always sounds interesting. Of course that's not always an infallible guide. I've just given up on a book that has had glowing reviews and I know from what the author says about it that they intended it to make all sorts of deep and valid points, much of which I would agree with. But I just couldn't stand the main character/s and emotionally the book felt all wrong.

I suspect that, emotionally, your story would feel right to me, but perhaps it's not gung ho enough for the US market? Have you considered trying the UK? I know the market here is smaller, but it publishes things like the Jon Courtenay Grimwood Pashazade trilogy a long time before the States would have anything to do with it.