julesjones

I need to provide a tagline and blurb for the short story coming out in September, and this publisher doesn't do in-house editing of the blurb. So I could do with a second opinion on mine. I'd like comments from the romance fans in particular, because while this has a love story, it does not have a happy ending - I don't want something that will mislead romance fans into thinking they're getting an HEA or HFN.

One night of your life for seven years of love. But would you pay the price?

A modern man meets one of the sidhe and finds that legends are true, but the sidhe have changed. They have a new bargain to offer mortals who bring them fresh stories. There will be no coming forth from the green hillside to find that decades have gone by in the real world, the old friends and loves... old. But there is still a price to pay to have a fairy lover.

(5,500 words, speculative fiction, and yes there's a reason why I'm calling it specfic rather than fantasy.)

Crossposts: http://julesjones.livejournal.com/527237.html

I've just posted a short specfic story on the crit group filter list. If you should be able to see it and can't, let me know.

Crossposts: http://julesjones.livejournal.com/508161.html

just posted what ought to be a locked post that only the crit group can see.

ETA: this post is public, the one immediately prior to this is filtered.

Crossposts: http://julesjones.livejournal.com/507255.html

Apparently it's so long since I last had anything to post for crit that it was before I had a Dreamwidth account. So I've just set up a crit group filter on my Dreamwidth account and added those people who were already on the crit group filter on LiveJournal. Of course, this actually means in practice those people who have a Dreamwidth account, have friended my Dreamwidth account, and I have been able to recognise who that Dreamwidth account is. :-)

If you've been missed off the Dreamwidth filter and want to be on it, wave from your Dreamwidth account, and let me know who you are if it's not obvious, so that I know who to add. Some of you are using very different usernames on the two sites...

I'll have an 800 word speculative fiction short story for crit later today, assuming that I'm not driven demented by trying to do a cut-and-paste from my word processor to Dreamwidth using only Dragon.

This post is public, but I'll put up a separate test post under the crit group filter, just to check the cross posting on the filter is working properly, and so that people can test to see whether they are on the filter on either site.

Crossposts: http://julesjones.livejournal.com/506802.html

Just back from the post office, and posting my submission to Maxim Jakubowski's Mammoth Book of Erotic Quickies in the hope that it will get there before the closing date on Sunday. As you can imagine, self-editing even something as short as 7 pages/1500 words has been a somewhat slow process given the current state of my typing.

Not as slow as actually getting around to the editing, though. My crit group went over A Sparrow Flies Through 5 years ago, but for various reasons I wasn't able to do anything with their suggestions before whatever market I was interested in at the time closed. So I left it, and then stopped regularly checking the short story markets, and didn't see anything suitable for something this length and genre until my last Irregular Contemplation Of The Trunk a month back.

Thank you to my critters - it may have taken 5 years for your suggestions to come to fruition, but they were extremely useful in polishing the story this month.

Crossposts: http://julesjones.livejournal.com/505747.html

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comments wanted on blurb and tagline

short-short just posted under lock for the crit group

testing the crit group filter -- second public post

testing the crit group filter

sent off a short story submission

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