Comments on: This is a story of true love and perseverance http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2009/10/23/this-is-a-story-of-true-love-and-perserverance/ Where Words and Imagination Meet Sun, 13 May 2012 01:21:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Elizabeth Bear http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2009/10/23/this-is-a-story-of-true-love-and-perserverance/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Elizabeth Bear Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:22:51 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/?p=326#comment-75 Dear David: Well, I am fortunate to have a wonderful, wonderful editor. Dear Sully: Somewhere in that surplus of successes there was the usual surplus of rejections. *g* Dear Wayne: The first one's out in paperback, even! Dear David: Well, I am fortunate to have a wonderful, wonderful editor.

Dear Sully: Somewhere in that surplus of successes there was the usual surplus of rejections. *g*

Dear Wayne: The first one’s out in paperback, even!

]]> By: Wayne Allen Sallee http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2009/10/23/this-is-a-story-of-true-love-and-perserverance/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Wayne Allen Sallee Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:37:07 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/?p=326#comment-73 I'm glad this finally saw print, Elizabeth. I write primarily short fiction and am always pleased when I get something I wrote ten years ago in print, updated or tweaked. And I love me my steampunk, I'll look for you on the Borders shelf across from the Chicago Theater...take care...Wayne I’m glad this finally saw print, Elizabeth. I write primarily short fiction and am always pleased when I get something I wrote ten years ago in print, updated or tweaked. And I love me my steampunk, I’ll look for you on the Borders shelf across from the Chicago Theater…take care…Wayne

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2009/10/23/this-is-a-story-of-true-love-and-perserverance/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Thomas Sullivan Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:40:15 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/?p=326#comment-71 Sounds like you had to sort through a surplus of success, which beats a stick in the eye any day. I'd say that's a mark of an author who knows who she is, has broad appeal, and keeps faith with herself and her readers in the face of a sometimes nonsensical publishing industry. I also had some early sales backed up, but it didn't come out so harmoniously. Instead, it produced a conflict of author identities. Thanks and write on... -- Sully Sounds like you had to sort through a surplus of success, which beats a stick in the eye any day. I’d say that’s a mark of an author who knows who she is, has broad appeal, and keeps faith with herself and her readers in the face of a sometimes nonsensical publishing industry. I also had some early sales backed up, but it didn’t come out so harmoniously. Instead, it produced a conflict of author identities. Thanks and write on…

– Sully

]]> By: David Niall Wilson http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2009/10/23/this-is-a-story-of-true-love-and-perserverance/comment-page-1/#comment-70 David Niall Wilson Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:50:57 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/?p=326#comment-70 I love this. I love that you didn't give up on it - the complexity of it - and the fact that you - the writer - eventually won through to the pass...great essay (and wonderful cover art, too). DNW I love this. I love that you didn’t give up on it – the complexity of it – and the fact that you – the writer – eventually won through to the pass…great essay (and wonderful cover art, too).
DNW

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