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Today wasn't very exciting. I'm trying to get myself moving faster in the morning, and it sort of worked today. I set my alarm for 6:45, dozed until about 7, then farted around on my phone until 8. This is an improvement over having my alarm set to 7:15, dozing until 8, then farting around on my phone until 9. It's also getting me to bed sooner, because 6:45 is 7 hours after 11:45, so I need to be lights out by 11:30.
I'm reading a book by a VP cousin (not sure what year she was, though; after me), Karen Osborne, called Architects of Memory. It was recommended to me by my housemate because her corporate dystopian future hellscape is comparable to mine, so I could use it as a comp title in my queries. It's definitely engaging, and definitely similarly corporate-ly dystopic. Her scale is much larger than mine - there are colonies at multiple stars, aliens, wars, that sort of thing. Mine's more of a cozy corporate dystopia. Small scale.
As popular as books with corporate hellscapes are right now, you'd think my little book would garner some interest, but not so far. 3 of the 8 queries I sent got form rejections, and the other 5 are awaiting responses. (Except the one where no response means no, so after 6 weeks when I don't hear from them, they go into the rejection stack.) Two "didn't fall in love" and one "didn't connect with the characters" so far. I guess when I have 4/8 back, I'll start round 2.
Seriously, though: The Expanse and the Murderbot Chronicles are wildly popular. My crit group said it had Murderbot vibes, so it wasn't just me. And, honestly, in the year of our hellscape 2020, who doesn't want to read about a bi woman with a prosthetic arm leading strikes against the corporate bosses and winning? And also getting the girl!
I'm reading a book by a VP cousin (not sure what year she was, though; after me), Karen Osborne, called Architects of Memory. It was recommended to me by my housemate because her corporate dystopian future hellscape is comparable to mine, so I could use it as a comp title in my queries. It's definitely engaging, and definitely similarly corporate-ly dystopic. Her scale is much larger than mine - there are colonies at multiple stars, aliens, wars, that sort of thing. Mine's more of a cozy corporate dystopia. Small scale.
As popular as books with corporate hellscapes are right now, you'd think my little book would garner some interest, but not so far. 3 of the 8 queries I sent got form rejections, and the other 5 are awaiting responses. (Except the one where no response means no, so after 6 weeks when I don't hear from them, they go into the rejection stack.) Two "didn't fall in love" and one "didn't connect with the characters" so far. I guess when I have 4/8 back, I'll start round 2.
Seriously, though: The Expanse and the Murderbot Chronicles are wildly popular. My crit group said it had Murderbot vibes, so it wasn't just me. And, honestly, in the year of our hellscape 2020, who doesn't want to read about a bi woman with a prosthetic arm leading strikes against the corporate bosses and winning? And also getting the girl!
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Date: 2020-10-29 12:23 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2020-10-31 02:11 am (UTC)From:Mine is about this woman, Estelle, who takes a dangerous job building a colony on Mars so her arm won't get repossessed. She wants to just do her work and get paid, but the company keeps dicking over her crew, and she keeps fighting back, eventually leading an all-out strike, even though it could get her fired. And also there's a WLW romance. I did a lot of background reading on the Pullman strikes as research and skimmed a lot of wikipedia articles on miners' strikes in the early 1900s.
There's a sequel in the fermentation stages that can roughly be summarized as "capitalism sucks, then you seize the means of production."