![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhetleyWell, 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.
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.
no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 08:32 pm (UTC)Nor, apparently, does the Defense Department. "Self-created" seems woefully uninformed.