Comments on: Tricia Bray: The best of times and the worst of times http://writerunboxed.com/2007/09/06/tricia-bray-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/ about the craft and business of genre fiction Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:52:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Patricia Bray http://writerunboxed.com/2007/09/06/tricia-bray-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/comment-page-1/#comment-20896 Patricia Bray Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:41:11 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/09/06/tricia-bray-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/#comment-20896 Selene, that's exactly what I thought. Much easier to walk away from three chapters and a synopsis which cost mere weeks/months of my life, rather than an entire novel which would represent a year's worth of effort. Patricia Selene, that’s exactly what I thought. Much easier to walk away from three chapters and a synopsis which cost mere weeks/months of my life, rather than an entire novel which would represent a year’s worth of effort.

Patricia

]]> By: Selene http://writerunboxed.com/2007/09/06/tricia-bray-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/comment-page-1/#comment-20881 Selene Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:26:20 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/09/06/tricia-bray-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/#comment-20881 Patricia, Aha, interesting, though it must have been terribly irritating at the time. Better a proposal than a whole MS, at least... Selene Patricia,

Aha, interesting, though it must have been terribly irritating at the time. Better a proposal than a whole MS, at least…

Selene

]]> By: Patricia Bray http://writerunboxed.com/2007/09/06/tricia-bray-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/comment-page-1/#comment-20736 Patricia Bray Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:11:38 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/09/06/tricia-bray-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/#comment-20736 Selene, The romance publishers rejected it as being too nautical (a la Patrick O'Brian or C.S. Forester), and the historical publishers rejected it as too heavy on the romance. In hindsight it was a classic example of something that wasn't fish or fowl. My agent and I liked the proposal, but the feedback ultimately convinced us that in order to sell it I'd have to rewrite the story to make it either a historical romance or a sea-faring tale, rather than the blend I'd originally conceived. And neither of those two options excited me. Fortunately by this time I'd already found another project I was in love with, so I tucked this proposal away. And you never know, some day I may decide to blow the dust off and take another crack at it. Patricia Bray Selene,

The romance publishers rejected it as being too nautical (a la Patrick O’Brian or C.S. Forester), and the historical publishers rejected it as too heavy on the romance. In hindsight it was a classic example of something that wasn’t fish or fowl.

My agent and I liked the proposal, but the feedback ultimately convinced us that in order to sell it I’d have to rewrite the story to make it either a historical romance or a sea-faring tale, rather than the blend I’d originally conceived. And neither of those two options excited me.

Fortunately by this time I’d already found another project I was in love with, so I tucked this proposal away. And you never know, some day I may decide to blow the dust off and take another crack at it.

Patricia Bray

]]> By: Selene http://writerunboxed.com/2007/09/06/tricia-bray-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/comment-page-1/#comment-20726 Selene Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:04:55 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/09/06/tricia-bray-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/#comment-20726 Out of curiosity, what in particular was off the beaten path about the sea-faring romance? Selene Out of curiosity, what in particular was off the beaten path about the sea-faring romance?

Selene

]]> By: Patricia Bray http://writerunboxed.com/2007/09/06/tricia-bray-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/comment-page-1/#comment-20721 Patricia Bray Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:28:03 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/09/06/tricia-bray-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/#comment-20721 Teri, thanks for the good wishes! Teri, thanks for the good wishes!

]]> By: Therese Walsh http://writerunboxed.com/2007/09/06/tricia-bray-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/comment-page-1/#comment-20719 Therese Walsh Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:09:02 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/09/06/tricia-bray-the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/#comment-20719 BEST OF LUCK, Tricia! I'll be looking forward to hearing what you decided and how things worked out. BEST OF LUCK, Tricia! I’ll be looking forward to hearing what you decided and how things worked out.

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