Rejection

[jhetley]

Well, Baen doesn't want GHOST POINT. That leaves Tor, for that one, and then moving on to the small presses...

At least I have been getting a good grade of rejections -- Baen really liked the characterizations, just didn't care for the characters. Wanted their problems to be external, rather than self-created.

"Different folks have different 'pinions. Some likes apples and some likes inions."

Me, I think a Vietnam vet who has turned hermit due to PTSD hasn't created his own problems. I guess "military SF" doesn't deal with the aftermath of combat, when the Hero comes home.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

There's a lot about modern military SF that sets my teeth on edge. I imagine I'd much rather read your book than one by, say, John Ringo.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, GHOST POINT isn't military SF -- it's more like post-military fantasy with shamanic Bear and witches, plus Grendel's Mother.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

It's the plus Grendel's Mother. that makes me want my copy. :-)

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

Baen doesn't want GHOST POINT.
Well, that's a bummer, and not merely because that's yet another roadblock between me and a copy of GHOST POINT of my very own. Baen's the only outfit I know of that's smart enough to realize that making (some) titles available online for free results in more sales, not fewer.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Heh, I was talking to a librarian in Merrimack yesterday about how they were missing 1634 but had 1632,1633, and 1635 and that Baen had the 1632 and 1633 free on-line but I really did need to go buy my own copies so I could read them away from a computer. (Not to mention read them when the 'Net connection is down (like it was yesterday and for most of today.))(Eesh, I've done enough Excel formula writing that I automatically count to make sure I've got the right number of parantheses.)

[pjthompson]

I guess "military SF" doesn't deal with the aftermath of combat, when the Hero comes home.

Nor, apparently, does the Defense Department. "Self-created" seems woefully uninformed.

[barbarakitten-t.livejournal.com]

eeeep....

what's wrong with baen???? they should know better!