Comments on: Rejection (updated)

By: Corey

Corey — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:23:56 +0000

I saw Disney’s “Great Mouse Detective” as a kid and thought, hey, I might dig SH novels in my older years. To this date, I have, well, still only liked “Great Mouse Detective.” heheh

By: Cassie

Cassie — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:51:10 +0000

I fear I too am a huge Holmes fan. Josh got me the annotated omnibus of the stories for my birthday and I loved them more than jewelry. But I respect your opinions. Except about some stuff. some stuff you’re just totally wrong about.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:17:15 +0000

oh no! reading your blog and just knowing how much you condone teen pregnancy has gotten me pregnant! oh, and i’m also drunk, because apparently you condone teen drinking too.

By: Justine

Justine — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:28:55 +0000

Libba: Hush your mouth!

I can’t believe you’re a Sherlock Holmes fan. Not you and Cat! Oh noes!

Veejane: I’ve heard rumours that there never was a V. C. Andrews . . .

What can I say? She was a very strong formative influence.

Penni: True. But Henry Miller really deserved it! Plus he’s dead. Surely that lets me off the hook?

By: Penni

Penni — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:10:02 +0000

on another note, I would like to point out that rejection letters are usually very polite and seldom suggest any kind of pyschiatric intervention.

By: veejane

veejane — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:07:31 +0000

Flowers in the Attic.

What I find terrifying is how many of my otherwise-sane friends will not only admit to having read the book, but will admit to having read the sequels! And tell me (in great detail) what happens in them!

(Actually the terrifying part is realizing that V. C. Andrews died as early in her career as she did; if she’d lived, she might have been a delightful YA writer who only occasionally skeeves the everliving daylights out of me. But because she died so soon, she is permanently to be known, via ghostwriter, as the queen of creepy sibling incest.)

By: Libba

Libba — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:47:25 +0000

I got one of those crazy “get knocked up now!” flyers, too, but I couldn’t read it on account of it was all in Australian. So I’m pretty sure you’re sending coded messages, too, you naughty minx, you. And what do you mean by writing a funny blog entry? the We are Literalists–No, Literally club is coming after you. there is no escape.

Sometime we can have a conversation about a certain victorian detective whose name cannot be typed here. for i love him and actually love a lot of the social commentary within the novels. maybe over pizza while we work on our new book about heroin-addicted necrophiliacs running a sperm bank.

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:57:41 +0000

Maureen: You promised you wouldn’t tell anyone about that!

Simmone: Isn’t it a bit late for you?

Holly: No, I will never understand it either. If we believed what all the characters in our books believed our heads would explode.

By: Holly

Holly — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:49:07 +0000

I will never understand how writing about something equals condoning it. Like you should edit the world so that nothing but the stuff you’re really into exists.

But yeah, I shudder to think the stuff I would have overlooked if I were an editor. i never got into gormengast either.

By: simmone

simmone — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:47:55 +0000

i hope i don’t get pregnant from reading your blog

By: maureen

maureen — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:24:22 +0000

justine! have you been irresponsibly condoning teenage pregnancy again . . . with your crazy “get knocked up now!” flyers? I have told you about this. to the naughty mat with you!

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:12:39 +0000

Mony: That’s a startling conclusion. How did you come to it?

By: Mony

Mony — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:06:09 +0000

How can someone who so irresponsibly condones teenage pregnancy get on her high horse about other writers?

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:27:36 +0000

Indeed! Maybe I should change the name of the blog . . .

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:00:08 +0000

"this is writ ironical."

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:21:30 +0000

I guess it just goes to prove that editors are people with their own likes and dislikes. I’ve read very few of the books you mention, but asimov – even today – still works for me. Maybe I’m blinded by nostalgia.

Different strokes and all that.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:09:52 +0000

moby dick = yawn. dunno about the others, haven’t read ‘em. i did not know your thesis was about bad sci-fi. i figured it would be more about the way women were portrayed in it.

hehehehehe, you should write rejection letters more often.

By: Becky

Becky — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:34:22 +0000

Really!? How sad. I loooovved the Gormenghast books!

By: Cat Sparks

Cat Sparks — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:23:44 +0000

See, I was with you up until you dissed Sherlock Holmes. Now I’m going to have to slap you. I was once so engrossed in the Holmes novel I was reading on the way to work that, upon arrival, I snuck into a storage room and hid under a desk for the 20 minutes it took me to finish it! I figured it was worth getting sacked over if I got caught. But I didn’t get caught. And now I have to fly to NYC so I can slap you.