Dennis Meier: Science Club KidsNews and stories about the Science Club Kids sci-fi seriesNo more blindly submitting to slush piles- February 26, 2004 I see no point in continuing to waste time sending query letter to agents and publishers--I'm going to take the energy I've writing and sending letters and devote it to developing contacts in the publishing industry. I firmly believe that the only way to get published is to know somebody. I was telling Byron last night that I have a query letter from a couple of years back, and on this letter the person I sent it to wrote a note praising the query letter for being so good. But they didn't want.http://www.webpak.net/~drmeier/categories/scienceClubKids/2004/02/25.html#a80 Poop on publishers and agents- February 25, 2004 Have I said "poop on all publishers and agents," today I wouldn't want to go to bed without expressing my feelings about the people who ride herd on what the rest of us get to read. Sometimes you folks know what you're doing; most of the time you don't. Don't confuse luck with ability.http://www.webpak.net/~drmeier/categories/scienceClubKids/2004/02/24.html#a78 Free science fiction for young adults- February 24, 2004 I'm putting book 2 in the Science Club Kids series on the Science Club Kids Website, updating the file as new chapters are added. We have no connections within the publishing industry, and that's what it takes to get the attention of somebody with the inclination and ability to make decisions. Maybe we'll get lucky. (I doubt it, but one hopes. I'm just too tired of trying to get the attention of publishers and agents to do anything else right now.)http://www.scienceclubkids.com Adio to Publishers Marketplace- February 21, 2004 After mulling it over for a few days, I pulled the plug on my Publishers Marketplace subscription. Aside from several dozen--hundreds for all I know, but the same bunch of us kept refreshing our pages so that we would show up on the "Pages Changed" list--desparate would-be authors and new agents desparately looking for that next big thing, I don't think anybody of any signficance pays attentions to this site. It's a bit like Authorlink, another dead-end idea of mine that cost money and returned.http://www.webpak.net/~drmeier/categories/scienceClubKids/2004/02/21.html#a63 http:www.jamesleeburke.comabout_the_author.html- February 16, 2004 I just noticed this sentence on James Lee Burke's Website: "His novel The Lost Get-Back Boogie was rejected 111 times over a period of nine years . . ." I'm not saying that The Science Club Kids is as good as STAINED WHITE RADIANCE, which is still my favorite Burke story, but THE WORMHOLE DEVICE is easily as good as half of the young adult books I've read over the past few years. Knowing that Burke, who writes the sort of gritty narrative that few authors can match (Pat Conroy comes to mind),...http://www.webpak.net/~drmeier/categories/scienceClubKids/2004/02/16.html#a60 A morning free from from intereuptions is a morning to write- February 16, 2004 A morning free from from intereuptions is a morning to write. The FUSA is looking forward to his first holiday since starting a job at the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality two weeks ago. With the kid sleeping at a friend's house and the spouse about to head to work, the FUSA is looking forward to two or three hours of being able to think about The Space Ark without interruption. Can the FUSA figure out a solution to the plot problems centering on what happens shortly after the...http://www.webpak.net/~drmeier/categories/scienceClubKids/2004/02/16.html#a58 Holy smokes! Another review of THE FABULOUS PHRENOSAN WORMHOLE DEVICE!- February 5, 2004 A new review of the THE SCIENCE CLUB KIDS AND THE FABULOUS PHRENOSAN WORMHOLE DEVICE cropped up when I Googled "Phrenosan." Laurie Thayer, writing for Rambles had this to say: "The Science Club Kids & the Fabulous Phrenosan Wormhole Device is a smart, entertaining adventure story with lots of science (and science fiction) for those who might not be so enthralled by wand-wielding. Packed with humor and pop-culture references, it's fun and...http://www.scienceclubkids.com/reviews.htm (Untitled)- February 5, 2004 I am searching for inspiration for the chapters where the kids have been transported aboard Nomad, where they run into Zurn again. The whole story pivots around what Zurn tells them, but what I have him saying now is too complicated. I need to simplify, simplify, simplify. One piece, and the rest of the Space Ark will fall into place.http://www.webpak.net/~drmeier/categories/scienceClubKids/2004/02/04.html#a42 |