Also a Luna author here--I've got next month's release. I did not write the book for this line, I wrote it as a departure and a breakthrough and a thoroughly genre-fantasy project, and lo and behold, after the auction flurry had died down, Luna had it. And then I discovered I'd written a straight-down-the-middle Luna book. My brief from Killer Agent was "write a romantic fantasy with a strong heroine and a sexy hero and a magical system no one has seen before." That's not what I'd call an easy out.
I wouldn't waste much more stomach lining on Author Wannabe. They will find right good and quick that Luna is a tough line to get into, and you have to be good. As in, able to write a damned good genre fantasy while also satisfying the expectations of Harlequin's core audience. Not to mention everybody wants in because their print runs and sales expectations blow midlist fantasy right out of the water. And they pay well. They get a Lot of submissions.
I would probably have laughed at this person--not kind of me, but there you are. I do have a problem with know-nothing know-it-alls. My bad. Flaw in my character. Naughty karma. Naughty.
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Date: 2004-08-16 08:10 pm (UTC)I wouldn't waste much more stomach lining on Author Wannabe. They will find right good and quick that Luna is a tough line to get into, and you have to be good. As in, able to write a damned good genre fantasy while also satisfying the expectations of Harlequin's core audience. Not to mention everybody wants in because their print runs and sales expectations blow midlist fantasy right out of the water. And they pay well. They get a Lot of submissions.
I would probably have laughed at this person--not kind of me, but there you are. I do have a problem with know-nothing know-it-alls. My bad. Flaw in my character. Naughty karma. Naughty.