Pardon Me, Coming Through was just rejected. They said it was well written, but thought it was an alternate history! This in spite of so many words about parallel dimensions. Oh well, I'll try and beat the reader over the head a little more.
I'm also getting frustrated with writing humour. It's far more subjective than say, drama. What leaves one person rolling on the floor merely raises the nose of another. If your work goes through one crit group, then another, then a slush reader, then an editor, then their assistant, and EVERY ONE of them gives you a kill list of the jokes they don't like, what's gonna be left at the end? How on earth did The Colour of Magic ever get published?
Things are also hotting up with Outcast. They just requested my bio, contracts will follow soon and in a week or so they'll be unleashing the awesome cover artwork. I'll add it here as soon as I'm allowed.
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Wow, you'll be famous soon! Can I get an autograph? (no, really..and a headshot..and a keyring?)
Agreed on the humour thing. Humour is extremely subjective, and is often difficult to convey through a written medium. Often, comic timing and nuance just don't seem to come across in writing, and so much just leaves me completely cold. There's also the problem of the plot merely existing as something around which to base the humour (see Incompetence by Rob Grant).
Hmm. Also, if you plan on writing for an American audience, make sure you write 'not' at the end of every sarcastic phrase, and insert copious visual aids. ;) Oh, and don't forget to take the 'u' out of 'humour'--that way it's 'freedom humor'.
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