Never mind
Remember that huffy list I drew up last week of ten tired trends? I just read a steampunk that was wonderful fun. I hope the trend lasts long enough for this to get published and be a big success.
more fun and hi-jinks at RWA.
To the Board of Directors of the Romance Writers of America: It has been brought to our attention, by several of our romance authors, that your organization no longer considers Medallion Press, Inc. a legitimate publisher according to your guidelines. We were surprised we did not receive official notification directly, but instead discovered it was posted on several RWA internet loops. Accordingly, we request this letter be published in its entirety in the RWR Report so all members may understand the nature of the process that eliminated Medallion as an RWA approved publisher. We will also send copies of this letter to all our own RWA member authors. We are dismayed you declared Medallion Press no longer a legitimate publisher. In July of 2004 we met all of your qualifications without incident by showing sales of 5000+ copies of USA Today Bestselling author Nan Ryan's The Last Dance. Several months prior to Book Expo America 2005, we received a call from your office alerting us to ...
Was it Leviathan?
ReplyDeleteyou read an unpublished steampunk? Cuz, yeah, if it's been published I would like to know the name.
ReplyDeleteYou could write steampunk, my dear. Being able to write period is the most difficult thing about it. I suspect you'd find it a piece of cake.
No, not Leviathan but I'll add that to my list.
ReplyDeleteDoug -- I think you should write steampunk and I'll look for scenarios/words that don't work. (And then you can say "but it's ALTERNATIVE HISTORY! In this Victorian world, 'latex' is fine.")
I'm doing the research for an alternate history, but I'm afraid it doesn't qualify as steampunk. As for the genre (steampunk, that is), I'm lukewarm. I enjoyed "To Say Nothing About the Dog" but haven't cared much for other sp's that I've tried.
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