Pull up a keyboard and stay a while. I’m a Colorado Springs wife, mom and writer. I’m fluent in tortilla making and running from bears. My YA is represented by Rachel Ekstrom of the Irene Goodman Agency and I'm working on an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Star Wars meets Where the Red Fern Grows
Those Blank meets Blank things are hard to come up with. Right now, I'm (shamelessly) describing my work-in-progress as above. How do you Blank meets Blank describe yours?
KELLY: Are you still thinking? When I was trying to come up with mine, I kept thinking of people in my real life...like my characters are a combination of so-and-so and so-and-so.
TINA: Oh, man. I like both of those. We named one of our kids after a Little House character, because we read aloud all the books while I was pregant with baby #3. It was like, After all that, of course we need to name the baby BLANK (not Nellie).
JONATHON: Just when I thought I'd read everything (I read so much this week, Husband asked me if I might be hurting my eyes), you throw these books at me...fab titles, but I haven't read them! But TINA's impressed.
TRACY: I have some high school friends who might describe me that way. Possibly w/out the awesome.
JUDY: And I bet those are wonderful books that are too good for me (but I'll check them out anyway)!
ELLIOT: You made me do an internal glee scream...your book sounds v cool.
I bring in some basic principles from theoretical physics. Every particle has an anti-particle. When they meet, they anihilate in a big burst of energy. It's like an Italian waiter serving the pasta and the anti-pasta at the same time >:)
I've really wanted to respond to several of your recent posts but I couldn't becauase of that same old problem I have with my workplace distrusting your blog.
Here are my responses: nice muscle, 11 year olds send their friends to flirt on their behalf, Encyclopedia Brown and Hitchcock's 'Three Detectives' (loved kid mysteries), and Star Wars meets Lord of the Rings -- humble, no?
COLD AS HEAVEN: You're so fun...and, really, I'd like everything served at the same time.
RAY VEEN: Tell you work computer I'm trustworthy. STAR WARS meets LORD OF THE RINGS sounds like an expensive film...after the book's published, your agent better look for a big production company.
ROBERT: I read an editor's blog recently where the editor was talking about how she uses Blank meets Blank during meetings. So, yeah, I do think they take them sorta seriously...you just gotta make sure you're being accurate as can be when you make your claim.
17 comments:
My novel THE CHRONICLES OF CHRISTMAS is the origin of Santa Claus meets "Batman Begins."
Ohhh, I like that description, Anita! Hmmm, I have to think about this one!
Gosh yours sound good. And rick's, intriguing!
My current one: confederacy of dunces meets are you there god it is me margaret? Sorta. Maybe.
My next one: little house on the prairie meets the hunger games. For sure.
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER meets THE BELL JAR meets BEDKNBOBS AND BROOMSTICKS.
J, that is the best yet.
Bizarre, Anita. Awesome bizarre.
Hmmm. Challenging. The Handmaid's Tale meets The Painted Drum.
Judy
...cute idea:)
"The Rookie" meets "The Shining."
RICK: Are you kidding me?! Cool!
KELLY: Are you still thinking? When I was trying to come up with mine, I kept thinking of people in my real life...like my characters are a combination of so-and-so and so-and-so.
TINA: Oh, man. I like both of those. We named one of our kids after a Little House character, because we read aloud all the books while I was pregant with baby #3. It was like, After all that, of course we need to name the baby BLANK (not Nellie).
JONATHON: Just when I thought I'd read everything (I read so much this week, Husband asked me if I might be hurting my eyes), you throw these books at me...fab titles, but I haven't read them! But TINA's impressed.
TRACY: I have some high school friends who might describe me that way. Possibly w/out the awesome.
JUDY: And I bet those are wonderful books that are too good for me (but I'll check them out anyway)!
ELLIOT: You made me do an internal glee scream...your book sounds v cool.
Just for clarification's sake, the last one is a movie, not a book. That should make it easier for you.
JONATHON: Ah...even better...I may actually take a one-day break from reading...long, I know.
I bring in some basic principles from theoretical physics. Every particle has an anti-particle. When they meet, they anihilate in a big burst of energy. It's like an Italian waiter serving the pasta and the anti-pasta at the same time >:)
Cold As Heaven
I've really wanted to respond to several of your recent posts but I couldn't becauase of that same old problem I have with my workplace distrusting your blog.
Here are my responses: nice muscle, 11 year olds send their friends to flirt on their behalf, Encyclopedia Brown and Hitchcock's 'Three Detectives' (loved kid mysteries), and Star Wars meets Lord of the Rings -- humble, no?
Do agents etc take "blank meets blank" seriously? Seriously.
COLD AS HEAVEN: You're so fun...and, really, I'd like everything served at the same time.
RAY VEEN: Tell you work computer I'm trustworthy.
STAR WARS meets LORD OF THE RINGS sounds like an expensive film...after the book's published, your agent better look for a big production company.
ROBERT: I read an editor's blog recently where the editor was talking about how she uses Blank meets Blank during meetings. So, yeah, I do think they take them sorta seriously...you just gotta make sure you're being accurate as can be when you make your claim.
Wow, Star Wars meets Where the Red Fern Grows sounds like quite a combination!
SHERRIE: Aiming high and all that! :)
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