Comments for The End Of Nowhere http://anaquana.wordpress.com Where anything is possible Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:06:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Wherein I Rant a Bit… by Ana Ramsey http://anaquana.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/wherein-i-rant-a-bit/#comment-1380 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:06:04 +0000 http://anaquana.wordpress.com/?p=757#comment-1380 Exactly! Readers are more willing to take chances on self-pubbed books because they’re so much more affordable. If you get a bad book, you’re out between $1 and $4 usually. It’s so much easier to find good books that you enjoy when you’re not so worried about paying an insane amount of money for something that turns out to be bad.

]]> Comment on Wherein I Rant a Bit… by Ana Ramsey http://anaquana.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/wherein-i-rant-a-bit/#comment-1379 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:49:58 +0000 http://anaquana.wordpress.com/?p=757#comment-1379 I’m currently out on sub with my urban fantasy novel and it’s so frustrating. Almost all of my rejections have praised the novel quite a bit, yet they’re still rejecting it. I understand that an editor has to love the story just as much if not more than the author simply because they need to be able to use that love to sell it, but come on! If it’s such a great story, then surely there’s a market for it. Sadly, we’re at the end of our list of editors to sub to and it looks like we may have to shelve it if our last three “long shot” editors pass.

]]> Comment on Wherein I Rant a Bit… by K.L. Townsend http://anaquana.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/wherein-i-rant-a-bit/#comment-1378 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:41:35 +0000 http://anaquana.wordpress.com/?p=757#comment-1378 This is where I worry. I write in this genre which means when I do shop for an agent and a publisher, it’s going to be tough to get it sold. Yet, as a reader, I am always looking for some fresh new UF.

]]> Comment on Wherein I Rant a Bit… by October http://anaquana.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/wherein-i-rant-a-bit/#comment-1377 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:02:57 +0000 http://anaquana.wordpress.com/?p=757#comment-1377 You already know I agree with you on this :)

It disgusts me, really, that the Big 5 have so much audacity to spit out horribly edited books like they are. And not only are they horribly edited, the story itself is atrocious. Readers want GOOD stories and WELL EDITED books if they’re going to shell out their hard earned money. And for the Big 5 to say that the market for UF is declining is just hilarious. As you said, shows like Grimm, True Blood, Supernatural, Haven..etc, are HUGE hits.

The market’s not declining- readers are just going elsewhere. Places they can get GOOD stories that are WELL EDITED. Idiots.

]]> Comment on Clarion West 2013 and the 2013 Snow-pocalypse by Teegs http://anaquana.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/clarion-west-2013-and-the-2013-snow-pocalypse/#comment-1324 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:01:46 +0000 http://anaquana.wordpress.com/?p=737#comment-1324 Hiya!
Teegs here, maker of the steampunk wings, you are welcome to use the photos. Thanks for writing & I’m glad you like them :)

]]> Comment on Clarion West 2013 and the 2013 Snow-pocalypse by Lisa DiDio http://anaquana.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/clarion-west-2013-and-the-2013-snow-pocalypse/#comment-1302 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:40:45 +0000 http://anaquana.wordpress.com/?p=737#comment-1302 I hope you’re accepted, get scholarships and have an amazing experience at Clarion West. But even if it doesn’t happen, you took a big and awesome leap. Go you! :)

]]> Comment on A Look Back At 2012 by sylvarih http://anaquana.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/a-look-back-at-2012/#comment-1238 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:50:00 +0000 http://anaquana.wordpress.com/?p=719#comment-1238 I miss sword dancing too! Maybe we can grab some books and train on our own for a while? Also, remind me next week and I will dig out some of my historical non-fiction books. I have a few ;)

*hug* this year will be AWESOME!! honest.

]]> Comment on A Look Back At 2012 by Anna Cerasoli http://anaquana.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/a-look-back-at-2012/#comment-1237 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:42:59 +0000 http://anaquana.wordpress.com/?p=719#comment-1237

Cleopatra: A Life

Cleopatra: A Life

Buy from Amazon

]]> Comment on A Look Back At 2012 by Ana Ramsey http://anaquana.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/a-look-back-at-2012/#comment-1236 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:36:11 +0000 http://anaquana.wordpress.com/?p=719#comment-1236 You, my dear, are awesome! Now it’s off to Amazon to put these on my wishlist so I don’t forget.

]]> Comment on A Look Back At 2012 by Anna Cerasoli http://anaquana.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/a-look-back-at-2012/#comment-1235 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:11:26 +0000 http://anaquana.wordpress.com/?p=719#comment-1235 Ooooo… I love historical non-fiction books!! Some really good ones I’ve read (that i can remember off the top of my head) are:

Cicero by Anthony Everitt
Julius Ceasar by Philip Freeman
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins
Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
Lucrezia Borgia by Sarah Bradford
The Twelve Caesars by Seutonuis (a bit of a dry read, but interesting as he is very impartial about the various Caesars good and bad qualities)
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor

Also, if you like historical fiction that reads more like a non-fiction book, I would definitely recommend checking out Margaret George’s books. (Memoirs of Cleopatra, The Autobiography of Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles, and Helen of Troy are the ones I’ve read so far)

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