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la_belle_laideOH HAI AGAIN, INTRAWEBz CONNECTIONS!! I wrote all of this before I switched back to cable modem. I am now happily back on cable, even though it costs more, but my boss just switched my insurance so that costs less, so I guess it all evens out. Anyway, here's what I wrote earlier:
I'm having a weird week. First, see locked post up there with that oddly congruous name thingie going on, okay? So I wake up this morning and I have a few hours free, so I decide I'm going to print the manuscript and get to sending it out to people; remember the guy from Daw had told me to just send it anyway, right? So I figure, give it a shot.
Then I get the mail this morning and it's a reply to the query letter I sent, saying that they don't think the premise is right for them (not "commercial" enough,) but to try another publishing company. Very polite and not discouraging at all. I decide to hang it up on my bedroom door.
As an aside, today is really frustrating because anytime I want to get on the internet to check my mail or whatever, I have to unplug and disable Linksys, restart, plug it back in, enable it, re-enter the code, and wait for it to verify. Then I get about 40 seconds (if I have a lot of email coming in, I don't manage to get it because it takes too long,) before I get chucked offline again until the next time I decide to do the whole thing over.
So a few minutes ago I do the whole thing over, get online for all of 20 seconds this time, but it's enough time to get the one email I've got waiting. Imagine my surprise when it's from the editor of Daw, a reply to my email of "Hey, sent you guys a query letter a million years ago, ya get it?" He apologizes for the wait, saying he was out of work for a long time (he mentions a specific reason,) and says to let him know if I don't get a reply soon. I actually did email the guy back, and here's what I said:
I'm very sorry to hear about (reason for being out of work.) Interestingly enough I did get a reply today, telling me that the premise is not right for your company. I'm glad I got it today because I called a while back and spoke to a young man who informed me of your (reason for being out of work) and asked me to send the manuscript anyway. I was just going to send it tomorrow, so your reply is timely.
I thank you for your reply and for this email, and I hope you're doing better.
Best wishes!
Etc.
That's pretty decent of me, I think. And then I got chucked offline before I got to send it, had to re-do my entire connection again, got about 15 seconds on this time and sent it just as my manuscript was finishing printing.
The printing of the manuscript took about an hour and a half and is 392 pages long, but that's actually not very long. I still have some options open, like the company that published one of my favorite books. And then recently I got interested in a small but well-funded indie company, but I'm not sure what exactly they want to publish so I have to send them a message. Which obviously I can't do until I get enough time online to actually send a message (and it's not as easy as sending an email, I have to do it through accessing their page, so that might take longer than I'm getting online.)
Anyway, I just thought it was really weird how this all happened in the space of two days, right?
Oh, another wierd thing that's a sign which I forot to mention, check this out: Last Wednesday I aws having a really rough day, with my car and computer and stuff like that. I was feeding the birds when I heard this EPIC crash in my house. I checked my living room, figuring the dogs had knocked a bunch of stuff over, but nothing was out of place. It wasn't till later when I went into my bedroom do get my Kung Fu shirt on that I saw what had crashed. One of my glass shelves had just taken a dive onto the floor, and everything on it--everything--got shattered into shards. I had a bunch of little glass and ceramic things up there, mostly gifts from over the years. Some of the stuff was pretty old. One of them was a dragon snowglobe and music box that Jeremy gave me in college, and that one was just totally wasted. I tried to salvage as much of it as I could and managed to keep the dragon figure and the music box part, but the globe, the stand and everything else in it was gone. That was a few days before I got the "Hey it's me" email from him, and like a week before I got that crappy email from him. How weird is that?
If I'm posting this, it means that I've gotten online for more than 30 seconds. YAY.
Okay, so now you know, I'm posting this and it's because I went back to cable modem. It's nice to have, you know, a signal again and stuff.
I'm having a weird week. First, see locked post up there with that oddly congruous name thingie going on, okay? So I wake up this morning and I have a few hours free, so I decide I'm going to print the manuscript and get to sending it out to people; remember the guy from Daw had told me to just send it anyway, right? So I figure, give it a shot.
Then I get the mail this morning and it's a reply to the query letter I sent, saying that they don't think the premise is right for them (not "commercial" enough,) but to try another publishing company. Very polite and not discouraging at all. I decide to hang it up on my bedroom door.
As an aside, today is really frustrating because anytime I want to get on the internet to check my mail or whatever, I have to unplug and disable Linksys, restart, plug it back in, enable it, re-enter the code, and wait for it to verify. Then I get about 40 seconds (if I have a lot of email coming in, I don't manage to get it because it takes too long,) before I get chucked offline again until the next time I decide to do the whole thing over.
So a few minutes ago I do the whole thing over, get online for all of 20 seconds this time, but it's enough time to get the one email I've got waiting. Imagine my surprise when it's from the editor of Daw, a reply to my email of "Hey, sent you guys a query letter a million years ago, ya get it?" He apologizes for the wait, saying he was out of work for a long time (he mentions a specific reason,) and says to let him know if I don't get a reply soon. I actually did email the guy back, and here's what I said:
I'm very sorry to hear about (reason for being out of work.) Interestingly enough I did get a reply today, telling me that the premise is not right for your company. I'm glad I got it today because I called a while back and spoke to a young man who informed me of your (reason for being out of work) and asked me to send the manuscript anyway. I was just going to send it tomorrow, so your reply is timely.
I thank you for your reply and for this email, and I hope you're doing better.
Best wishes!
Etc.
That's pretty decent of me, I think. And then I got chucked offline before I got to send it, had to re-do my entire connection again, got about 15 seconds on this time and sent it just as my manuscript was finishing printing.
The printing of the manuscript took about an hour and a half and is 392 pages long, but that's actually not very long. I still have some options open, like the company that published one of my favorite books. And then recently I got interested in a small but well-funded indie company, but I'm not sure what exactly they want to publish so I have to send them a message. Which obviously I can't do until I get enough time online to actually send a message (and it's not as easy as sending an email, I have to do it through accessing their page, so that might take longer than I'm getting online.)
Anyway, I just thought it was really weird how this all happened in the space of two days, right?
Oh, another wierd thing that's a sign which I forot to mention, check this out: Last Wednesday I aws having a really rough day, with my car and computer and stuff like that. I was feeding the birds when I heard this EPIC crash in my house. I checked my living room, figuring the dogs had knocked a bunch of stuff over, but nothing was out of place. It wasn't till later when I went into my bedroom do get my Kung Fu shirt on that I saw what had crashed. One of my glass shelves had just taken a dive onto the floor, and everything on it--everything--got shattered into shards. I had a bunch of little glass and ceramic things up there, mostly gifts from over the years. Some of the stuff was pretty old. One of them was a dragon snowglobe and music box that Jeremy gave me in college, and that one was just totally wasted. I tried to salvage as much of it as I could and managed to keep the dragon figure and the music box part, but the globe, the stand and everything else in it was gone. That was a few days before I got the "Hey it's me" email from him, and like a week before I got that crappy email from him. How weird is that?
If I'm posting this, it means that I've gotten online for more than 30 seconds. YAY.
Okay, so now you know, I'm posting this and it's because I went back to cable modem. It's nice to have, you know, a signal again and stuff.
