What We Did to Ask Your Opinion

[mrissa]

Please note that I am aware that most of you have not read this book, so you are not being asked to comment on whether the title works well for the specific book I've written. (Although if you have read it, feel free to e-mail me with opinions on how the title worked for you.)

[Poll #1294645]

Also, if you ran across a book called What We Did to Save the Kingdom, what, if any, preconceptions would you have about it? (Funny, serious, high fantasy, swashbuckling, sword-wielding protagonist, lots of boats, whatever.)

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There are some. But there are also entire respectable imprints that will reject things on those grounds.

You don't even want to know some of the other crazy-ass grounds for rejection people list in their letters. One of my editor friends suggested that they were flailing because they wanted to make it clear that this was not a form rejection, to say something useful, but I'm not sure; when they specifically say, "If you do something that's more x or less y, please send it to me," that sounds awfully full of feedback to me.