30daysmeme, Sparkle Lust

[aldersprig]

Day 25 of 30 days of Fiction: "26) Write a personalized rejection letter for the YA novel 'Sparkle Lust.'"

This is an in-joke of sorts off of the Addergoole setting; one might wonder why, of everyone, you never see Ardell's Change...


Dear Ardell Drake:

Thank you for submitting your novel “Sparkle Lust” for consideration. However, we are not interested in publishing it at this time for several reasons.

Firstly, although you billed this as YA, and I acknowledge that the main characters are, indeed, teenagers throughout most of the story, the subject matter is uncomfortably dark even for jaded adults.

The story itself, of a stifling, abusive stepfather, a distant father, an inappropriately interested professor, and a heavy-handed first boyfriend, bears telling, I believe, but the dark and fantastic elements that you choose to couch it in bring it into the realm of a terrifying acid trip. In addition, although I am impressed with the way your metaphors carry through the entire tale, I am not certain why you chose to use something so reminiscent of recent well-known YA novels as a symbol for uncertain sexuality.

That similarity – the sparkle which you even put in the title of your novel – would open this publishing house up to potential lawsuits, since it cannot be said that your novel is a parody or satire of the original.

Additionally, the thinly-veiled autobiographical nature of some of your details is worrisome, and would likely cause many of our customers distress. If such things are truly happening in an American boarding school; action should be taken.

And, as a personal reason, Dr. Regine Avonmorea gives this publishing house quite a bit of money, and would be very irked with this novel. And your stepfather would break my neck.

My apologies, and we wish you luck with another publishing house,

Lyn Thorne-Alder
Editor,
Alder’s Grove Press

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Comments

[lilfluff]

Okay... The first part. Amusing. Very amusing. But the end is forcing me to try not to laugh out loud in the middle of the office. :}

[aldersprig]

*grin* Huzzah!! I win!

[lilfluff]

In that case there needs to be a prize. :p

So I'll call the scene for Day 16 of the 30 Days of Flashfic to be the prize. It's from the as yet unnamed colony setting, although different characters that previously. (I might actually do tow as I've also got an idea for it using the Tales of the Mascot setting)

I already had the idea, but if your day 27 post can serve 4-6 uses depending on how one counts, then I can get two uses out of this. :) Now I just need to get it finished...

[aldersprig]

*perk* the redheads?

*grin* yeah, I multitasked like woah on that one.

[lilfluff]

Posted as Day 16b, yeah, I actually did two pieces for 'write a scene on horseback'. One posted here and one posted on LJ.

There's at least one redhead in it.

[aldersprig]

Yay!

[amanda_sheree]

Hehe! :) That was fun to read.

[aldersprig]

Yay!

[meridian_rose]

That similarity – the sparkle which you even put in the title of your novel – would open this publishing house up to potential lawsuits, since it cannot be said that your novel is a parody or satire of the original. LOL, a Twilight rip-off complete with sparkly vampires.

[aldersprig]

*grins*

The worst thing is that, for the character, it's actually semi-autobiographical.

[clare_dragonfly]

Ahaha that's wonderful, especially that Regine gives the publishing house money XD I did kind of figure Ardell's Change must be embarrassing, considering he wouldn't even show it to Lily... I thought maybe he hadn't Changed, but you've said specifically that Delaney never Changed, but said nothing about Ardell.

(This icon seems to suit Ardell.)

[aldersprig]

*bows* thank you! I had fun with that!

(yes, it's a very appropriate icon)

Del (shh) actually did Change, very late; she just didn't notice.

[clare_dragonfly]

Ooh, what's Del's mysterious Change?

[aldersprig]

She's a 'shifter. She never noticed because she'd gotten really good with tlacatl.

[clare_dragonfly]

Ahaha, poor Del. (Though that does make her a good match for Fiala...)

[aldersprig]

Ha, yes.