Andrew Jameson
Re: A few questions
Kate and Maestro: Thank you for the replies. For the Lotus tip, I do subscribe to Lotus, but hadn't thought to check for (presumably) unagented sales. As for slush, I wasn't really looking for quotas, per se; more for some affirmation that publishers treat slush semi-seriously and that planning on submitting to a slush pile doesn't make me a loser. Maestro, good example with the river. I just think that my inner ear is calibrated to accept the passive voice in more situations than where it's warranted, so some examples are good.
Julie, if you'll accept advice from another noob, I think changing the name in the heroine's POV is perfectly acceptable, because it reflects her own inner thought in that POV. Changing it in the author's POV (by which I assume you mean a third person omniscient narrator?) is a little more dicey, but if you've been careful to identify the "author" with the horoine in other ways, seems like it might work.
Kate and Maestro: Thank you for the replies. For the Lotus tip, I do subscribe to Lotus, but hadn't thought to check for (presumably) unagented sales. As for slush, I wasn't really looking for quotas, per se; more for some affirmation that publishers treat slush semi-seriously and that planning on submitting to a slush pile doesn't make me a loser. Maestro, good example with the river. I just think that my inner ear is calibrated to accept the passive voice in more situations than where it's warranted, so some examples are good.
Julie, if you'll accept advice from another noob, I think changing the name in the heroine's POV is perfectly acceptable, because it reflects her own inner thought in that POV. Changing it in the author's POV (by which I assume you mean a third person omniscient narrator?) is a little more dicey, but if you've been careful to identify the "author" with the horoine in other ways, seems like it might work.