Why I'll Never Be an Acquiring Editor
Sep. 4th, 2005 11:06 amTucked on my hard drive is a long, sort of rambling semi-review of The Historian. There it will stay. I'll never be a reviewer, either. I get to a certain point in the proceedings and lose interest. Wonder if the faults I'm finding in the work in question are just as evident in my own books--the mote in their plot and the beam in my own.
I started out wanting to like this book. The reviews I read were uniformly good, and I found the premise interesting.
( Oh well. )
Shortest form: Plenty of people love this book. I didn't. If I were an acquiring editor and had read this manuscript, I've have offered a low five-figure advance and an axe. So much for my editorial career.
I started out wanting to like this book. The reviews I read were uniformly good, and I found the premise interesting.
( Oh well. )
Shortest form: Plenty of people love this book. I didn't. If I were an acquiring editor and had read this manuscript, I've have offered a low five-figure advance and an axe. So much for my editorial career.