Karen Joy Fowler: Cory told me that you, and I quote, "knocked it out of the park" last week.
Me: (flustered) Uh … I … well, I, uh, wrote a story I thought he might like. As I did with Bob … I mean, I don't TAILOR my stories to each instructor but–
KJF: –but you thought @KellyLink and I would enjoy a story about eating children?
Me: Uh …
Anyway, the story that @pluralistic liked is in ParSec #10 today:
@angusm@KellyLink@pluralistic This reminds me of a barnstormer of an argument I had with my agent circa 2008, culminating in her sending me an email saying "FOR GOD'S SAKE, YOU CAN'T HAVE THEM EATING THE BABY'S FACE! YOUR READERS WILL HATE YOU!"
(My reply was something like, "Caitlin, are you projecting much?" (She'd just had another baby.))
@angusm@KellyLink@pluralistic We agreed to submit the MS to an editor of mine who had three toddlers. They agreed the baby-face-eating was in the best possible taste and published the book. (That was 10 Laundryverse novels ago.)
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