June 18, 2004
Not Good Enough
A few weeks ago, I managed to get a real live literary agent to look at my manuscript-in-progress. The agent e-mailed me back yesterday and told me she didn't find the material "compelling." I wasn't terribly shocked or dismayed. The book is only half-complete and still needs a lot of polishing. And maybe the story is the kind of thing that won't grab everyone's interest. I won't have a good sense of that until I show it to a few more people. But my gut sense is that it's interesting enough to keep writing, and so I will. I'll keep everyone posted on the many, many rejections that are still to come.
My sister is back from Europe and is staying with me for a few days. She brought me a tres chic black T-shirt from the Cannes Film Festival and a few other trinkets. I was asking about accessibility in Paris. She said that the only accessible Metro station was at St. Michel in the Latin Quarter. The rest have stairs and apparently many have a distinct odor of "bum piss." Her words, not mine. She also said she only saw a handful of people with visible disabilities on the streets of Paris. Does anyone know if the EU has a department that deals with disability issues? Just curious. I suppose I can look myself. I'd be interested in seeing what sort of disability-related statistics are being collected over there in terms of population, household income, and so forth.
Posted by wintermute2_0 at June 18, 2004 06:39 PM
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Well, there is this: http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/disability/index_en.html
Best of luck with the novel. I'm sure that your prospective publisher will be very impressed that you have one eager reader waiting in Iceland. If that doesn't convince them, what will?
Posted by: Gunnhildur at June 18, 2004 08:51 PM
Try www.european disability forum
Diability Intergroup in EU headed by Richard Howlett MEP
Posted by: A Pridmore at June 19, 2004 11:03 AM
You can always self-publish.
http://www.authorhouse.com/home.aspx
Posted by: Da Goddess at June 20, 2004 04:06 AM