FRIDAY; Or, This Week in Queries
Friday, November 13, 2009
It's ANGELS WEEK, Author-friends; angels angels angels. We have no idea why this happens, but queries come in waves. Last week was 238,000-word Conspiracy Tome week, the week before was Revisiting the Old Testament With Dubious Intent week, the week before that was Medical Thriller week, next week will be Revenant Apocalypse with Hobbits week, or something. This week we got: serial-killer angels, existentially angsty angels, teenager-guarding angels who develop Forbidden Attractions to their charges (lots and lots; those WACKY TEENAGE GIRLS just can't SPIT these days without hitting some kind of paranormal entity hot to trot with 'em! and we thought being a teenage girl was hard back in OUR day!), happy angels, mopey angels, and WAY TOO MANY Dirty Bird Angels, with the "vividly sensual" bits attached for our delectation. Angels are INSATIABLE, Author-friends. Did you know? We didn't either. Here we were, thinking they were all ANGELIC, but NO. Smutty, smutty angels! Tormented by Earthly Desires! Frolicking and gamboling with Lucifer! Enticing the single ladies with their smoking-hot bods and snowy snowy wings!
Some days we want to email Le R. Père and be all like, Pop, you were right. INVESTMENT BANKING WAS THE WAY TO GO. AUGH.
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You can start a hedge fund blog! I'm sure it will be boffo.
The pirates are coming!
EVERY single MG/YA MS I'm editing right now has pirates, with or without magical amulets, ghosts of pirates past, and pungent smokin' stogies. In one to three months from now they'll lay siege to agents everywhere. You've been warned, me heartie.
Ah, yes. The forbidden lurve. What could be more romantic? Not only is it verboten interspecies love but to bring about the fall of something holy...swoon.
Angels. . .I don't see the attraction. To me, guys with wings are not cute. Especially if said wings come with traits such as "fallen aka special" and "perfect aka god's little helper" As an eighteen year old girl, if i ever met an angel I think I'd tell him to fly back to wherever he came from cause I like the boys who side with lucifer every now and again. "aka bad boys"
"those WACKY TEENAGE GIRLS just can't SPIT these days without hitting some kind of paranormal entity hot to trot with 'em! "
Made my day! Hahahaha
Nasty, dirty bird angels. My momma would say that was sacriligous. I say...if there were no plummage involved...it could be hot.
Its all about the forbidden love. How much more forbidden can we get than angels?
Sure, love affairs with angels are all fun and games until your eye gets put out by a stray wing when he rolls over in bed one day. Regular men are bad enough with their elbows.
You know, when I was a teenager back in "the day", the only supernatural thing hot to trot with me was Slimer.
Who you gonna call?
What, no vampire angels? No half-breeds? I'm very disappointed there wasn't more variety really.
Perhaps I should pull out that half-breed angel story I started when I was 18...
Lord have mercy, who let the fallen angels out?
Does holy water work on a fallen angel? Oh, right, we don't want to get rid of them. Because they're hot.
I'm catching up.
Anna! That's sheer genius! If the Amish can be vampire, why can't an angel? A vampire, with sleek wings of obsidian, pining for the communion of angelic love that his dark nature now seals away from him. Can she, a mere mortal, fill the void?
Ooooh. I'd better start drafting now before someone beats me to it.
Meredith Ann Pierce, Darkangel trilogy, 1982. Sorry, Laurel.
"Smutty, smutty angels!" bahahhaha
I feel like the AVERAGE GIRL WITH PARANORMAL ABILITY wave is happening or will be soon. I'm just waiting for HOT SEXY ALIENS week.
Recently, Nathan Bransford asked readers to fill in the blank for "____ are the new vampires" and got some really funny answers too.
LOL! I love this place. And why is it that the angels only entice the single ladies with their smoking hot bods? If they're already so naughty why not do the dirty deed and adultery?
I'm spitting, right now. and I'm not hitting a thing 'cept the floor.
"those WACKY TEENAGE GIRLS just can't SPIT these days without hitting some kind of paranormal entity hot to trot with 'em! "
ROTFL! I almost feel sorry for the kid's these days. The girls are all dissappointed by the mundanity of actual boys, and the boys are all feeling inferior with their unfeathered, sparkleless skin. How can any of them enjoy their youth before it's too late?
I'm totally sparkly. And once I collect enough cereal boxes I'm gonna have me some wings, too. Duct tape is a marvelous thing.
too funny! I can totally see angels being the next big thing.
Has anyone seen the trailer for LEGION? Hubs had me watch it and I had no idea angels could be so badass. don't like the idea of them in any YA romantic-type stories, tho.
Ah, we're back to the Friday Funnies again. Love it.
What really sucks is when your angel is of the Guardian order and was created like a Eunuch and can't have sex with that smokin' hot bod! But his adversary, a Seraphim, with that same hot-delicious body can! Ouch!
Oh! And wings shmings be creative... my wings disappear in the human dimension. ;-)
What kind of material gets you excited? Makes you want to ask for more?
You've apparently missed the point. Heavenly sex. That is all.
Rejectionist: Like all your ilk, you are a dream crusher. I haven't even outlined my novel and already you tell me, "It's not new! It's not fresh!"
Well, balls. I say it's retro!
Did somebody say something? We were picking feathers off the soles of our boots.
Bad-boy angels as a still-paranormal reaction to the good-boy vampires that are growing old? It does makes a certain amount of sense.
Sigh. I'll always be behind the curve. Angels? Vampires? How about an Angel Vampire created out of a Werewolf Zombie with commitment problems because s/he knows there's an Illuminati symbolic thingie out in the world which will destroy the ...
Sorry. Nauseating myself.
But Marva -that's the key! If you can't stay a few feet ahead - fall about three miles behind. Next year this time- ANGELS- I'm telling you it's gonna be BIG.
Ooooh, this post has given me the BEST IDEA EVER!
What about a vampire NAMED Angel, who falls in love with the one mortal girl who has the ability to destroy him, but he can't act on his feelings because he'll lose his soul and turn ev- . . . oh, wait. That sounds familiar . . .
*looks over at DVD shelf containing all seven seasons of Buffy*
. . . DANG IT!!!
And the misnomer: It was man (artists) who decided Angels had wings.
Not in any biblical account are their descriptions of wings.
My first book depicted such hotties - sans the white feathers.
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