RE: So, I published my first children's book–Tori the Time Traveler
May 19, 2017 at 2:43 pm
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2017 at 2:55 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
Wow Shell! I heard you wrote two novels years ago but I didn't know you were still publishing!
And -- wow! -- I didn't know you wrote children's books too.
I know right?! I even wrote one called "There's A Monster Under Your Bed & Yes It's Real" but my proposal got rejected. Even when I said I'd also throw in a free copy of the sequel "P.S. It Also Has A Large Axe" as a limited bonus edition but I still got turned down.
I still maintain the position that the original got rejected because of the publisher's own prejudices against ampersands. And... as for the sequel, well, I guess sequels don't make sense without the original work.
Publishers can be annoying... and he sure was: Damn ampersand racist he was.
And I would have omitted the ampersand in the title but if I did that then one of the main plot points in the third of my trilogy "A Giant Evil Possessed Ampersand That Shat Its Own Brains Out" wouldn't even make any sense... and I've got too much pride -- too much pride -- to compromise one of the main plot points in my third novel (namely one of the key reasons the ampersand shits its own brains out) just to get my books published. The whole trilogy is of a very personal nature to me.
Or, it would be, if I wasn't making this all up talking shite and being a silly bugger.
And -- wow! -- I didn't know you wrote children's books too.
(May 19, 2017 at 2:36 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I wrote a book for kids once, but I couldn't find a publisher. You'd think Knopf would jump at the chance to put 'Billy the Bunny Eats Your Parents', on the shelves, but noooooooo......
Boru
I know right?! I even wrote one called "There's A Monster Under Your Bed & Yes It's Real" but my proposal got rejected. Even when I said I'd also throw in a free copy of the sequel "P.S. It Also Has A Large Axe" as a limited bonus edition but I still got turned down.
I still maintain the position that the original got rejected because of the publisher's own prejudices against ampersands. And... as for the sequel, well, I guess sequels don't make sense without the original work.
Publishers can be annoying... and he sure was: Damn ampersand racist he was.
And I would have omitted the ampersand in the title but if I did that then one of the main plot points in the third of my trilogy "A Giant Evil Possessed Ampersand That Shat Its Own Brains Out" wouldn't even make any sense... and I've got too much pride -- too much pride -- to compromise one of the main plot points in my third novel (namely one of the key reasons the ampersand shits its own brains out) just to get my books published. The whole trilogy is of a very personal nature to me.
Or, it would be, if I wasn't making this all up talking shite and being a silly bugger.
