A day of failure and fungus.
Another rejection today.
Bah.
Oh well, on to the next on the list. I've written myself into a bit of a corner with three of the books. They aren't a series or a serial but they are interrelated, so it makes sense to place them with a single publisher. Having had one of them rejected means I can't really send that publisher the other two for consideration.
I'll have to keep trying with those and also work on the zombie book, which has nothing to do with those three so it can go out to publishers who have already booted one of them.
So far I am concentrating on publishers who accept submissions through the wire. This costs nothing but a little time so the rejections only dent my pride, not my wallet, and the wallet is by far the more important of those.
It's too hot to concentrate on being properly grumpy today anyway. The heat is drying out all the fungus on the dungeon walls and I have to go down there at least twice a day to spray it. Senga wants me to let it die because she keeps trying to clean it off and it grows back. So I have to sneak down when she's not watching. That fungus has been growing there for centuries. I can't be the Dume who let it die. History would record my failure.
Having already failed once today, I'd better go and spray the walls now.
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Hope the next publisher (or the next, or the next... we're optimistic, here!) says yes. ;)
Do you use any fertilizer on the wall fungus?
Posted by: Merc | July 4, 2009 12:30 AM
There are a lot of publishers. I'm not in danger of running out of options any time soon.
The wall fungus needs to be kept damp, and that's about it. I use a spray of liquidised well-rotted compost once a year. The compost is best collected at night from a place where the villagers bury it and they are kind enough to even put a stone with the date it was buried. So I know when it's ready.
They seem very protective of their compost so I have to go at night. I don't know why they make such a fuss. They never use any of it themselves.
Some of it has been down there for centuries. It'll be nothing but bones by now.
Posted by: Dume | July 4, 2009 01:16 AM