Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Now I'm intensely curious. I read a handful of the books, but it didn't hold my interest long enough. Anyone wanna fill me in on what happened? (Or are there unwritten rules around here about not spoiling book endings?) Seconded. I remember watching the tv series as a kid. What happened with all th...

A.M.Kuska wrote:Animorphs

Most evil ending in the history of ever.

I am also finishing high school! What grade are you in?? I'm a senior and am officially checked out for the duration of the school year...like I have one of the worst cases of Senioritis ever (which really helps with writing)...haha I've had Chronic Senioritis Inofficium since kindergarten, if that...

If you want to focus on the latter, there's a lot out there on how the relationship in Twilight is abusive. Honestly loads of people picked up on it before major outlets did or at least started running stories on it, but there's a lot out there now. One could make the point that it's all part of tha...

As for the reason men dislike Twilight, whether you highly doubt or not, look at the facts: the male opinion. Feel free to google "why men hate twilight". It demeans and objectifies them (double-standard again). Scusi madonna, but I must disagree. As a man who hates Twilight, knows many m...

but i can't think of any words that would turn mainstream america against your novel. Certain C word might. Only seen that turn up in one non-erotic piece of literature, and that was by a Brit. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but that is one that definitely does not come up a lot, American literatu...

I've been trying to update semi-regularly, so there's probably a few since I've last been in here, but for today we have the first of what will probably become many anecdotes from my youth.

but i can't think of any words that would turn mainstream america against your novel. Certain C word might. Only seen that turn up in one non-erotic piece of literature, and that was by a Brit. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but that is one that definitely does not come up a lot, American literatu...

Shite, bloody, etc. and other Britannic swears don't really get used excepts by weirdos like myself and immigrants, so really most people probably won't even blink an eye at those. Actually most people won't really react to anything. In my experience we Americans tend to be game on violence and swea...

To be fair, there are people who are actually like the stereotypes, though. I can't believe I hadn't remembered before today, but there's a fellow named George I've known for several years now. Flaming homosexual. Every stereotype you can think of for the flamboyant, effete, drama king gay is all bu...

How many times have you seen someone at the bookstore read the first page and put the book back on the shelf? People actually do that? Oh dear, we Pennsylvanians must be such uncivilized folk. We just scan the back covers if we aren't out for anything particular. In regards to the topic at hand, an...

KappaP, well said. I feel the same way about southerners. Books and movies make southerners into cartoons. Give a man a southern accent and he's evil (the bad guy in the movie Avatar had a southern accent), or he has a crazy family. Or he is the most kickass lawman the West has ever known (okay, th...

thecolour wrote: I'm a Land Surveyor at a very large gold mine, which isn't nearly as exciting as it sounds.

Dude I didn't even know we still mined gold in this country. That in and of itself is exciting to me.

When it comes time for querying, I am making sure you critique mine. Clearly you are a god. Congrats.

Maybe you've covered this already hereabouts or in your blog, and if so I apologize, but I've been wondering. When it comes to pages with a query, agents are very explicit on the no attachment thing, understandably. But assuming you were to get a request for a partial or a full, particularly in the ...