Another "woohoo" to you -- for this excellent review. (I just wrote you a response to the more-recent post about getting a publisher -- and, more important, an editor who's willing to accomodate your keen determination to get THE book you want out of the process. Think Max Perkins and Hemingway/Fitzgerald.)
I don't know if Anais has told you about my confessing to her several years ago that I, too, am genderqueer. (It's so long ago that I forget exactly WHAT I may have confessed -- but I suspect she told you something, perhaps recently, that prompted you to "friend" me on LJ. No matter -- in effect, I'm coming out to you, one way or another!)
Anyway, your little review was wonderfully honest, admitting that you see Audrey as something of a rival -- her having "seen print" before you, though she's a different stripe (think zebras!) of genderqueer. You can relax about your claim to be "the very firstest" (with the "mostest" -- as a Civil War general once claimed, regarding how he won a certain battle! Nope, NOTHING new under the sun, is there?)
Please feel free to share this letter with Anais. Which permission is likely unnecessary: I have the inpression that you do that with much else in your vividly lived existences.
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Date: 2016-08-12 10:27 am (UTC)Another "woohoo" to you -- for this excellent review. (I just wrote you a response to the more-recent post about getting a publisher -- and, more important, an editor who's willing to accomodate your keen determination to get THE book you want out of the process. Think Max Perkins and Hemingway/Fitzgerald.)
I don't know if Anais has told you about my confessing to her several years ago that I, too, am genderqueer. (It's so long ago that I forget exactly WHAT I may have confessed -- but I suspect she told you something, perhaps recently, that prompted you to "friend" me on LJ. No matter -- in effect, I'm coming out to you, one way or another!)
Anyway, your little review was wonderfully honest, admitting that you see Audrey as something of a rival -- her having "seen print" before you, though she's a different stripe (think zebras!) of genderqueer. You can relax about your claim to be "the very firstest" (with the "mostest" -- as a Civil War general once claimed, regarding how he won a certain battle! Nope, NOTHING new under the sun, is there?)
Please feel free to share this letter with Anais. Which permission is likely unnecessary: I have the inpression that you do that with much else in your vividly lived existences.
Cheers, Justine