Yes, thanks for the link. I went to your website first. Then I searched for you on Amazon.com. Then I googled you. Finding little and nothing, I asked the question below.
~rave! --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Club Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am glad you are interested. We all should be ... in ourselves .. not just me. Again see here: http://www.jivagoswamidasa.com/interest.htm > j > > ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am intrigued. What are some the titles you have published? With > what publishing houses? Are the novels still in print? > > ~rave! > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Jesse Miller" > <aaaclub_services@> wrote: > > > > The idea that putting black characters in a story blocks > publication > > is distressing to me becasue this is NOT true. The reason this is > > distressing to me is many people take such a flag and allow it to > > impede them. Here's the fact: If you write well, you will get > > published (if you want to). I am speaking from personal > experience. > > ALL my published SF is about black people with black characters. > DO > > NOT (please) be like those people who sit around saying, "I don't > > have a chance because of the race factor). If your work (with > black > > characters) is rejected: IMPROVE YOUR WRITING. > > Face it: Publishers are OVERJOYED to receive quality writing by > black > > authors about black people. If you get a rejection, unless you > were > > submitting to a KKK publicaion, (and even then I'm not sure) if you > > get a rejection, IMPROVE YOUR WORK. What? You want to say you > didnt > > get there because you are black or because you incorporated black > > characters? Blackness is a niche in SF. Use it! We know about > > Black People very well. > > I personally suspect that many people here are as deficient in > their > > reading as they are their wrirting. Read my lips, (such as they > > are!) IF YOUR WRITING IS HIGH CALIBER YOU WILL BE PUBLISHED. IF > YOU > > ARE REJECTED, make it better. If you do not have the horsepower or > > time to make it better, do not blame this on the publisher. Accept > > the fact that you can always improve! > > Again, my PUBLISHED SF works are about black people with black > > characters. AND these are not (in retrospect) even anywhere near > the > > quality of writing I do now. (Which is, I know, still not so hot, > > and at best merely ample.) I'm saying lots of people here can do > it, > > but by God, it takes work along with an open heart on your part. > > So don't put down the genre, don't put down your perceived chances > in > > what is to me the dubious quest to become published (easy for me to > > say as one who is in that category) ... > > Follow the SF formula, write about what you know ... submit your > > work, take your inevitable rejection as impetus to improve and keep > > writing. You don't think publishers are overjoyed to embrace the > > black writer? Wrong answer! It takes work! I think it is all too > > easy to say "I didn't get it because of race issues." All too easy. > > Very resepctfully > > jivajiva (President Club Services) > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
