Augh! It's a perfectly cromulant punctuation mark!

[valarltd]

Ellora's Cave does not take colons in their work.

But how the flaming Sea am I supposed to punctuate this sentence WITHOUT one?
“At the end, let only this be said: that all Ruvane Delkroy did, he did for love of Etarin.”

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[the-willow.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

Girl.....

Everything I hear about them from authors (often times you but also more than just you) has me knowing EC be the last place, last, right after printing stories out at Kinko's and putting them up in a nudie bar, that I want to take my work to.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I'm just bitching because the rules seem so arbitrary sometimes. And I worked to get into EC, because of the huge potential client base.

I can't live on $70/mo from my writing.


(At least we haven't had a demand for more cowbell.)

[the-willow.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

I think what I can't ever forget is an editor from them telling you to sex up your story more. (Yes it sucks that it's my fav and I can't remember the title. But the Jewish lawyer and her miracle child)

I know that they're wanting sexy stories. But that made me feel like they don't care about flow and characterization, they just want print out the wank material.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

They said Etarin needs more sex too, about 4-5 more pages. Of course, beefing up the existing scenes will be fine.

What got me on "Burning for Eight Days" was the "Sex it up/ooops, it's all sex, give us plot" two-step.

But they took it, and I'm hoping for good money. (It's what I call whoring anyway, writing for the money and not for desperate need to tell the story)