Tor editor responds!

[mckitterick]

Dear friends -

Finally, I've heard from the editor at Tor who's had one of my novels for, what? Three years now? He wants to see the rest of another novel, part of which I sent him a couple months ago. Wants to do that one first if he likes it because the first one is "too long and difficult for a first novel," in his opinion.

Well, heck, that's exciting compared to no movement, eh? I better finish it and clean it up! Wish me luck.

Chris

Comments

[nous-athanatos.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, or something like that. It's good to know that they don't think you suck, they just think you might scare people (or something like that).

I kinda miss the good old days of challenging (nay, demanding) first novels.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so do I. In fact, for the Campbell and Sturgeon Awards this year, we've decided to specifically ask for "groundbreaking" work. Used to be that's the kind of thing editors would seek in order to keep their line alive, and it often came from people new to the field.

Chris