Any well-known authors or pro reviewers out there...

[seawasp]

 Who are into Oz enough to want to try my Oz novel "Polychrome"? My agent said that if I can get anyone interested enough to blurb it ahead of time that actually helps with the pitch. I'll be posting this around elsewhere, too, just to see if I can find anyone.

Comments

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

I doubt I'm well enough known to make a difference with a blurb, alas. I am intrigued. I love Oz and Polychrome is an awesome character, so I'll cross my fingers for you. :)

[seawasp]

Well, I could still send you a copy if you like. Email me at seawasp at sgeinc dot com if you do.

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

I'll be glad to but I don't think anyone but spammers ever look at my livejournal. I suppose I can make a nice facebook post though. What are you looking for just a mention about it or a nice gushing mention? :D I can work something up because damn but Polychrome really really impressed me and I would love to buy it and hold it and hug it. Oh and read it again and again.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Willing to read and buy the book? Yep. Well-known and followed in the press? Nope. Good luck, though.

[lwe.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in taking a look at it.

[djonn]

I've been inactive on the reviewing front for awhile, so I don't know how much my name would be worth nowadays -- but back in the day I had review columns with Dragon (1984-1996) and Amazing Stories (columnist for one of the last three incarnations, regular contributor to the other two). And I'm definitely enough of an Oz groupie to be interested in looking at a potential new novel. For the record: as I recall, I actually reviewed Farmer's A Barnstormer in Oz when it first appeared (mixed positive, if memory serves), I disliked Wicked intensely -- not at all for being revisionist as such, but for being badly revisionist. OTOH, I quite enjoyed the two books Sherwood Smith published a little while back. I also thought Disney's Return to Oz deserved much better press than it got at the time, and published a review in my then-local newspaper which (among other things) gave kudos to Joan D. Vinge's novelization of the movie.

So: if you think I'd be of use, I'd be more than happy to have a look; my email address is on my LJ profile page.