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Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ?

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From djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ?
Message-ID <ntE5Ey.1oDH@kithrup.com> (permalink)
Date 2015-08-20 17:18 +0000
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In article <eh1cta948o3i8gbrjbd2kq4jh4mdi66lu4@reader80.eternal-september.org>,
Lawrence Watt-Evans  <lwe@sff.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:42:47 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
>Heydt) wrote:
>
>>In article <pvpata90rp5vn6v9tgkvau9e63k5f43ada@reader80.eternal-september.org>,
>>Lawrence Watt-Evans  <lwe@sff.net> wrote:
>>>On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 04:05:25 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
>>>Heydt) wrote:
>>>
>>>>Conga rats!  Particularly in getting Wildside to do ANYthing.  My
>>>>agent sent 'em an inquiry back in the day, and they never even
>>>>troubled to say No.  
>>>
>>>When was that?
>>>
>>>I have little trouble getting a response from Wildside.  Living nearby
>>>and having adopted the publisher's cat may have helped with that.
>>
>>Maybe.  It was a goodish while ago, like early 2000s.
>>
>>Let me look it up ... but I remember talking [typing] to you
>>about it. ....
>>
>>Well, I can't find the original email from my agent, and I can't
>>find the original discussion with you.
>>
>>But in 2006 I had a discussion with Ann Sharp, who manages the
>>Marion Zimmer Bradley Trust, and I told her,
>>
>>>Some years ago, Patricia Wrede suggested that Wildside might be
>>>interested in publishing _TIL_.  She put me in touch with the
>>>publicity person there, who sounded very enthusiastic (well,
>>>publicity people have to, I guess) and suggested that my agent
>>>get in touch with their editor, John Betancourt.  So he did.
>>>
>>>Betancourt never answered.  NEVER.  Not even a "No."  Dropped us
>>>into the fathomless abyss.  I mentioned this once on rasfw, and
>>>here's what Lawrence Watt-Evans said:
>>>
>>>"I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not.
>>>
>>>"John Betancourt is a nice guy, but he's not good at time management
>>>and has a tendency to lose track of things he needs to respond to.
>>>I'm not sure whether to advise you to nag him until you get a
>>>response, or to say you should shrug and forget it.
>
>Yeah, that sounds about right for that time period.
>
>Since then, however, John has largely gotten his act together.  Thanks
>to the boom in ebooks that began when the Kindle was released in 2007,
>Wildside DOES now support him; it's his full-time job.
>
>He's fired at least three of the other four people who were working
>for him in '06, which (perversely) helped*.  (I'm not sure who the
>fourth one was, to be honest.)  And he's gotten better at time
>management -- still not anywhere near perfect, but much better than he
>was.
>
>I'm not saying you should try again, necessarily, but if you did, and
>still got absolutely no response, this time I _would_ be surprised.

/shrug

At this stage, I think I would be ashamed to have enouch chutzpah
to attempt getting anything published by anybody, e- or not.
Particularly since it wouldn't bring in any money.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress.
Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.

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    Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2015-08-20 01:41 -0400
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