Hehe, the double-shot comment reminded me of the fact that when we'd go to Sunday lunches with my parents, when I was a child, my father always ordered a bloody mary and my mother ordered a gin-and-tonic, and the waitress always reversed the drinks when she set them down. My parents would just switch and carry on, but my mother did sometimes make comments...
Anyway, I saw that link on Lit Soup and read it, and could only laugh. I mean, I've gotten rejections and I always use my first two initials rather than my given name when I send off queries. Should I take it personally and declare that clearly, agents are all against people with gender-neutral names? I think I shall be offended now on the basis of non-gendered. Yeah.
The bit about the 'war hero and whatever' particularly made me laugh, because I currently work with a woman who was the first female Navy mechanic on two classes of jets, and was in the first squad stationed on an aircraft carrier. As far as I'm concerned, it takes guts to fly a navy jet, certainly, but it takes a lot more to walk onto a carrier where everyone is pretty much convinced you don't belong -- and do the best damn job ever. First female E4 on a naval carrier. That's my idea of a hero.
The rest of it's so sour grapes that I almost cringe at the fact that he boasts about his character. How many agents do you think have since written it down and put it on a sticky on their computers with the note: IMMEDIATE REJECTION.
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Date: 2006-10-29 07:01 pm (UTC)Anyway, I saw that link on Lit Soup and read it, and could only laugh. I mean, I've gotten rejections and I always use my first two initials rather than my given name when I send off queries. Should I take it personally and declare that clearly, agents are all against people with gender-neutral names? I think I shall be offended now on the basis of non-gendered. Yeah.
The bit about the 'war hero and whatever' particularly made me laugh, because I currently work with a woman who was the first female Navy mechanic on two classes of jets, and was in the first squad stationed on an aircraft carrier. As far as I'm concerned, it takes guts to fly a navy jet, certainly, but it takes a lot more to walk onto a carrier where everyone is pretty much convinced you don't belong -- and do the best damn job ever. First female E4 on a naval carrier. That's my idea of a hero.
The rest of it's so sour grapes that I almost cringe at the fact that he boasts about his character. How many agents do you think have since written it down and put it on a sticky on their computers with the note: IMMEDIATE REJECTION.
Hehe. Moron.