Comments on: Critiquing.

By: Graham Clements

Graham Clements — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:55:47 +0000

Blogger now notifies me with emails – I ticked a box about moderating the comments.

By: Satima Flavell

Satima Flavell — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:51:23 +0000

Yes, Karen is doing well everywhere, here and the UK and now in the States as well, I believe. You can find her on Facebook and LJ and of course she has a website. Nice lady, good writer.

I don’t know how you make Blogger tell you about responses to posts – I must have ticked something, somewhere, at some time…

By: Graham Clements

Graham Clements — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:47:44 +0000

I have heard of Karen Miller, she’s the Aussie Fantasy writer who is doing very well in England, isn’t she?

I will have a look at authonomy but the time commitment might be a problem.

I will be contacting you too.

And as I said in another reply to a comment I only just noticed, I will be looking at why blogger is not sending me emails when someone makes a comment on my blog.

By: Satima Flavell

Satima Flavell — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:51:37 +0000

OWW can be pretty good, depending on how lucky you are. Sometimes you strike a time with plenty of keen, good critters there; others they are mostly beginners; or at least, so many beginners that your chances of getting good crits are not high. I’ve been on it for two periods of six months each and I’d say I got my money’s worth out of it each time. It has produced some fine writers, including Elizabeth Bear, Karen Miller and Charles Coleman Findlay.

Have you checked out Authonomy? It’s a big commitment and is at least in part a numbers game – a lot of your time will be spent making friends, as on Facebook, to find like-minded writers who will crit your work and vote for it. The voting can take you onto the desk of an editor at Harper Collins. They are just now preparing the books of the first three authors to be chosen, and it pleased me to see that these three were not voted in but were chosen by scavenging editors:-) I’ve joined but not participated yet as it looks like being very time consuming.

I’ve been pretty lucky in that I am in two good groups. Both contain published authors and serious wannabes like me. They do meet face to face but we tend to do most of our critting by email and in one of the groups at least it’s a fairly hit and miss affair. One of them is closed but if you’re interested in the other one, contact me privately and I’ll tell you more about it: satimafn at gmail dot com