Recent content by Luciferette

Agreed. I write historical fiction, and so many times I've been reading around a subject and a tiny, inconsequential bit of info has provided a pivotal plot point. Specific research is different (e.g. Getting dates right so no anachronisms); I do that as I go along, otherwise you can get bogged...

Messed up that reply - try again: Your film could be The Iceman Cummeth - kinda highbrow literary porn...

Maybe I'm an incurable miserabilist, but it's the sad things that stick with me, so vividly that I can remember everything. I think the one memory that interests me the most in terms of writing, though, is very recent. I had my old Labrador, Jack, put to sleep in January -- he'd had a wonderful...

I quite like the technique, but only when it's used by a skilful author -- as @Paul Whybrow says, Pratchett and Mantel do it wonderfully. The most striking example for me is The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber. Now, that's skill! It adds a sinister layer of someone else watching over...

FLAME HIM.

What, poacher turned gamekeeper kinda thing? :) I like to think I'd be gentle on the huddled literary woss names, but I think agents seem to Go Postal after about the 1 year-query reading mark. Can't blame em, really. Ps. Funnily enough, had my second rejection yesterday, along the lines of...

Nature and novelists abhor a vacuum. I think we spend so long plotting, studying character motivations etc that we have a tendency to fill in gaps in stories with ever-more complicated twists. I know I did this with the above event -- dreadfully ghoulish, I admit -- but we might never know the...

Just seems odd that they obviously put a lot of thought and effort into that post, and it's a very active thread yet they've not come back. Anyway @brinley, if you're still around it would be nice to know what you're writing etc -- I'm always interested in what others are working on (ie nosey...

Where has @Binley gone?! No intro, one super-long post, then...gone. How strange.

Race yer...;) Yes, @Rich. you're absolutely right. It's a strange situation for me, because I've got the added complication of the full already being with *famous agency* -- they were a great help while writing the first draft, only to get radio silence for 9 months after delivering the MS...

As I say, I'm really no expert -- the others might be able to advise me on this -- but I'm pretty shy when it comes to stuff like this, and my gut instinct is that "no means no, so don't come back"! Maybe I'll wait and see if I hear from the other two, then think on (as my mother would say)?

Yaaaaaaaaaay! Brilliant news! So chuffed for you. Will hie me to Twitter now and get following.

They are SUCH heartening words, thank you (mwah, mwah)! I'm such a query virgin, I'm really not sure what to expect. After so many months of silence from *famous agency*, I'd kind of given up hope of ANYONE liking it. Oh me of little faith and even littler querying experience... Seriously, I bow...

My dad has a Grey called Chris...22 years old and laid an egg last week :) (the parrot, not my dad) -- so now Christine, not Christopher!