Over the course of her dynamic career Lucienne has sold over six hundred titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list of more than forty authors spanning the commercial fiction genres, primarily in the areas of fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, suspense and erotica.That's all well and true, but what we really love about Lucienne is her hearty appetite for good humor. We also admire her ability to whip up beautiful jewelry in one hand while whipping up beautiful manuscripts in the other. Welcome, Lucienne!!
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1) In addition to writing great query letters, what else bothers you about today’s aspiring writer? (This is inspired by Stephen Barbara's post on PW)
That there are so many of them! (Writers, not pet peeves.) We get something like 200 queries per month per agent. Reading through them really cuts down on my beach time.
Seriously? Authors who don't do their research or follow submission guidelines. Queriers who address me as "Mr." Diver or put down those who've rejected them previously as lacking vision. We're in publishing; we squint at tiny type all day. Mocking us for our corrective lenses isn't a bit nice.
2)What’s your favorite karaoke song?
Favorite karaoke song? You're kidding, right? Is there such a thing?
3)What’s your favorite snack?
The blood of innocents.
4)A haiku about adverbs, please:
With verbs needing help
Lolly got her adverbs here
At the Comp'ny Store
Lolly got her adverbs here
At the Comp'ny Store
5)What is the daily price you must pay for being a hottie?
$49.95. I had a coupon.
6) If you were on a deserted island, what book would you most like to use as kindling?
Ooh, that's tough. On Walden Pond is too short for an extended burn.
7) One bottle of fine wine, or ten bottles of college stuff?
Can we compromise on two bottles of decent, but not really fine wine? I want it all. Quality and quantity.
8) Who is your favorite editor?
Is that the phone? Yes, I'm sure it is. Gotta run!
9)There’s a reason to be afraid of that closet. The one to your left, behind the pile of boxes. Go ahead. Open it. Show us what’s inside.
When I was a kid, I was convinced that aliens were waiting under my bed to grab my legs if I got up during the night. The grim reaper hid out in my closet. Frankenstein was waiting to chase me down the hall, Dracula was hiding behind the shower curtain and there was a hand in the toilet. So, if I was desperate, and only then, I'd leap out of bed, several feet out of reach of grasping alien hands; run down the hallway, because Frankenstein shambled; throw open the shower curtain to foil Dracula and then hover. The reaper in my closet was really kind of timid. He was always waiting until I fell back to sleep. Did I mention I didn't do much of that as a kid?
10) What are you reading at the moment?
The second pass edits on my own novel, VAMPED (think Clueless meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer), which is coming out in May! I'm doing the love/hate thing with it. Today I'm just hoping it doesn't suck…no pun intended.
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Please drop by and wave hi to Lucienne! Perhaps she'll give us tidbits about Vamped!! And if you have a query letter you've been circulating for years with no success, why don't you throw it up here? heheheheeh (That's a joke. DON'T do that!)
Welcome, everyone!
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