"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Easter/time rejection! While I have two agents looking at the full manuscript, yet another one answered "thanks but no thanks", so my Patrons get their festive story featuring spring, bunnies and butterflies. Well, no, not really. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875) was a prominent Russian intellectual who worked...
New rejection, new book on Patreon! Florence Marryat (1833-1899) was a British author and actress, and perhaps one of the most underrated figures in the Victorian era. Born the daughter of famed naval captain and novelist Frederick Marryat, Florence's life was marked by both privilege and upheaval....
I was finally able to present my Patrons with a digitised, free version of one of the most underrated and yet more significant works by Jules Verne: The Castle of the Carpathians. Published five years before Bram Stoker consigned Transylvania to the public's imagination as a...
Last week I got another rejection and I wanted to give my Patrons one of the classical Gothic books I'm annotating but it isn't ready yet, so we'll settle for another bunch of folktales collected by Grazia Deledda and translated by yours truly. Whom, as...
I received another rejection from a prospect agent, and I have another tale for you. It's an original translation from one of the folktales collected by Grazia Deledda, and this time is free for everybody. You can read it here or on the Patreon. Enjoy! The Castle...
Tuonetar is the Queen of the Underworld in Finnish mythology, and I promised you we'd talk about her when we saw her daughter Kalma, who's tasked to prevent the dead from escaping their tombs. She brews one kick-ass beer, and she's today's profile on my...
Kalma's name, the Finnish goddess associated with death and decay, possibly means "The Stench of Corpses," which is enough of a declaratory statement in itself. Narratives revolving around her, often find her lingering in graveyards and cemeteries so much that the Finnish word for graveyard,...
Following the rejection I got to my query letter on Valentine's Day, yesterday I got a much more polite one. Things are progressing fast and I need to move my ass because I'm running out of books to give my Patrons, especially since I endeavour...
"too long for traditional publishing", and on Saint Valentine's day nonetheless! Yeah, this rubbed me the wrong way a little, since I'm perfectly within the boundaries of the word count recommended for my genre and hey, if you like the project we can trim it,...
I received a lovely rejection yesterday, detailing why the agency can't undertake representation of my project and prompting me to submit more works in the future. I know it might be a form and all, but it was a kind form nonetheless. Back to business, this...
