Piers Anthony's home page

[Robert_Moriyama]

Found a link to Piers Anthony's home page at ralan.com:<br><br>http://www.hipiers.com/index.shtml<br><br>Anthony provides some very looong commentary on a great many topics in his 'newsletter', and other sections include links to various electronic publishers and services with basic info on how they work. This month's newsletter includes (among other things) some tips on book manuscripts and how to submit them to publishers.<br><br>Dan, if you look at Mr. Anthony's newsletter, you'll never again worry that your editorial is long and rambling! (I think Anthony said that one of them ran to 12,500 words ...)<br><br>Robert M.<br>

[Robert_Moriyama]

At 10:44 AM 9/26/2004 -0400, you wrote:<br><br>>>Dear Mr. Anthony:<br>>><br>>>I am writing to thank you for choosing "Halfway to Hell" as one of the top 5 (okay, number 5 out of 10) entries in Ralan Conley's Grabber Contest. The story had actually been accepted for publication in the Planet Relish webzine, but P.R. had ceased operations before the story appeared ... I hope you will read (and enjoy) the rest of the story when Ralan puts it online.<br>>><br>>>I've also taken the opportunity to visit your website -- you devote a lot of effort to providing useful links and tips for aspiring authors, for which I thank you. I have posted a link to your page in the 'lettercol' of the Aphelion webzine, where most of my writing has been 'published' over the past several years. The authors there keep up a <br>lively discussion on various topics and try to critique each others' stories; a visit from you would be a huge thrill for all the regulars (hint, hint). We had a lettercol thread that started out as a discussion of a recent newspaper article titled "Is Science Fiction Dead?" that morphed into a quite nasty argument over whether or not editors of paying markets welcomed new authors or not. The thread actually became the topic of discussion at other websites, and drew <br>comments from a number of semi-pro authors (who said that it ain't easy for an unpublished author to get out of the slush pile -- but it is possible).<br>>><br>>>Anyway, thank you again for choosing my story (the front end of it, anyway) as prize-worthy.<br>>><br>>>Robert Moriyama<br>>><br> Thanks for your note. We have printed it for Piers Anthony. He appreciates hearing from you.<br> Piers Anthony asked us to add:<br> The story beginnings were all anonymous, so I had no idea of the authors.<br> I do list Aphelion, wondering whether its Mare Imbrium Section has any relation to my Xanth night mare Imbrium, whose hoofprint shows that section of the moon.<br><br> Editors do tend to be shits. It comes with the territory.<br><br>Piers Anthony<br><br>Robert M.

[Robert_Moriyama]

No, but anyone from Xanth would be welcome in the Mare Inebrium. The bar's name made more sense when the idea came about. The Mare was originally going to be at the north pole of Earth's moon.
Dan

<br><br>I sent a reply to the note from Piers Anthony (and staff) explaining what the Mare Inebrium was ... there isn't a crater called that, is there? (My lunar geography -- er, selenography? -- is beyond rusty.)<br><br>Robert M.<br>