Snrk

[mrissa]

"'A black mass! Again!' cried the marquise. 'I fear the devil, madame! I am sick of lying naked on a pallet while you consecrate the host with the blood of a newborn child!'" -- Annie Pietri, The Orange Trees of Versailles

Oh, gosh, I know, it just gets so tiresome...I mean, naked on the pallet again, yawwwwwwwn...flying through the air cursing the English king's sheep again? Can't we think of some different evil to do? This is boring....

This is one of the YA advance galleys porphyrin gave me, and it was nice of her, but this is not, shall we say, the best of the bunch she gave me. (They were given to her, not handpicked by her, so her taste is not indicted here.) Gratuitous Satanism in the villains introduced more than 2/3 of the way through: let's have a no on that one, shall we? Modern sentiments placed smirkily in historical characters' mouths: no. People betraying their evil plots by talking in their sleep: no. As-you-know-Bob dialog about the Satanism: no! "As you know, Bob, we've been defiling the cathedral altar with our evil Satanic rites for three months." "That's true, Mme. de Montespan, and we also kick puppies and bewitch the king." Yarrrrg.

This book was translated from the French. That means at least two editors had to say, "What a good idea! Let us publish this book!" At least two publishers had to agree. The mind, it boggles.

Comments

*smirk*

[dlandon.livejournal.com]

Sounds horrifically awful enough to be funny :) This *wasn't* one of the self-published ones?

You know, you're not much of a rabid wannabe neopro, Mrissa, you actually let me out of the house without assaulting me with a copy of your novel! And after I'd volunteered to look at it! *g* Either send it along via email or, because I don't have paper yet, you can wait until I have my furniture-less-fun-sitting-on-floor houseparty :)

- D

Re: *smirk*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Publisher: Delacorte Press. Who, I might add, rejected my first novel.

I do attempt to keep my rabies under control with shots, and the foam hardly gets on anything these days. Is .doc format all right for the book? If you want me to wait (or lend you the printed copy that lives here), I can do that, too.

Re: *smirk*

[dlandon.livejournal.com]

Rabies shots: that explains it, then. Do you let them lapse for con's like the rest of the neopro community, or do you stand firm against the temptation? *g*

Why not lend me the printed copy that lives at your place? I think it'd be easiest. Either that or email me the first three chapters and I'll print them out to get started. Which might be good since I'm not working again until Saturday -

D