37 Comments on “Storytelling in Four Tweets, Featuring Kristine Scalzi”

1. Especially now that you’re Mr Moneybags!

2. If you want it to be a YA, it needs more angst I think.

3. “If you like pina coladas…”

4. You might have violated contract by publishing it on your blog first, dude.

5. I just saw a show on UK tv where an American guy woke up from the anesthetic after a colonoscopy and thought the woman standing over him was the most beautiful he’d ever seen. He was blown away when she told him she was his wife.

   Fiction, meet truth. Like, way strange.

6. “A writer writes. Always.”
   – Larry, Throw Mama from the Train

7. In my headcanon those amazing studs contain the souls of Krissy’s vanquished foes.

8. And Hot Woman knows you can pay for it, as does a great deal of the world.

9. does the contract specify the length of the books? Most of them do specify a certain number of words……although, hey, if you can get away with it, great! Keep writing!

10. fuzznose: From what I’ve read about these things, if the contract specifies x and such number of novels, then the industry generally defines a novel as a minimum of 40,000 words. Anything less is classified as a novella, novelette, or short story. This I believe applies to adult novels; I don’t know about YA.

11. You might have an infringing work, I think I’ve read this one before:
    http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Monster_at_the_End_of_This_Book

12. If only you had submitted it to Tor for publication before you put it up here.

13. Dude, you’re showing your uvula in that third pic. Does your wife approve of this?

14. Somehow I have never noticed Krissy’s ear piercings. Fabulous and I like Amal’s thinking!

    (Full disclosure: I can’t be bothered to wear earrings often enough to keep my, relatively, standard pair of holes reliably open.)

15. You have a very forbearing family, John.

16. You go Krissy..

17. Scalzi, you really are a lucky guy!

18. You stole that plot twist from M. Night Shyamalan!

19. I think if you get to count that against your contract, you officially have the world’s best agent.

20. Money jokes already getting old, but I cannot resist …..

    Don’t you have a guy to handle pesky bills now? No need to dirty your hands with such egalitarian trappings as handling money.

21. Though my husband retains the title “Most Tolerant Spouse in the World,” Krissy is offering stiff competition.

22. Krissy has obviously mastered “The Look” (2nd and 4th pictures).

    (and I too like Amal’s theory)

23. A twist worthy of M. Night Shymalan’s most recent films. Expect a phone call regarding the movie rights soon.

24. Heck, I’m a straight girl and I’D hit on Krissy. That 4th picture is the best.

25. So what *was* your best line?

26. Maybe Tor will accept it as a part of a book if you adopt the “Wisdom from My Internet” model of good bookifying.

27. Need more angst, brooding, pointless brutality, people being terrible for the hell of it, and catchy songs.

    Those are what’s popular now, y’know!

    ;)

28. Noveleeny!

29. with a little photoshoppy alien thing behind those windows, you are totally covered for book one. (please note: not a legal opinion)

30. Still looks unconvinced in photo four.
    I see a sequel.

31. ‘And get the rivet gun. My other ear is loose.’

32. Awwww – CUTTTEEE! :)

33. Reminiscent of Ben Folds’s “One Down and 3.6”!

34. Dangnabbit! My shriveled heart actually, you know, beat or something when I read this. Totally adorable! #StillABetterLoveStoryThanTwilight

35. Cute.
    -Renlaw

36. Yeah, but … this just proves you are not a bunny-suit wearing SJW because she would split the check, or paid for it herself. Turns out you ARE a real he-man MilSF protagonist… You need a better character name, though: Duke Lancer, or something similar…

37. BW: that’s a whole prequel series.