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[Snell]

Hey, Nickie.  The squiggly stuff wasn't text.  It was Steve's tentacles: 

Thanks for picking up my book! You might prepare for it as if you'll be sitting front row at a Gallagher show--in other words, bring a tarp.

[Lord Anubis]

D.L. Snell, as a seven-dimensional being living in a human world, I've never felt comfortable and accepted at parties or nude beaches.  So I was wondering, how would things be different if I were 500 feet tall?


 


Also, from your own experience as an editor, how much give and take do you like from authors? For example, you just mentioned that you suggest lots of rephrasing.  Are they something where an author could say "I'll change A, C, and E, but B, D, and F really have to stay as they are," or are these "suggestions" in the Russian mafia/ Yakuza sense...?    What happens to that author who won't change a word?

[Snell]

Nubis, if you were 500 feet tall, nothing would change: 494 feet of you would be in a different dimension.

How flexible I am on editorial changes depends on the changes.  If I'm changing something because the author made a definite mistake, I never yeild.  If it's a matter of opinion, I'll state my case, maybe debate with the author, and if I can't convince them, I suggest a compromise; if that fails I move on, because at the end of the day the story belongs to the author.  That doesn't mean I won't kill them.

 

[Zombie Zak]

That doesn't mean I won't kill them.

 

Can I have they're brains?  I hear writer brains are extra tasty!

[Thom Brannan]

so, what are you up to NOW?

[Snell]

ZZ, that's because writers' brains are usually steeped in alcohol.

Gren, thanks for the question!

I'm juggling so many deadlines and projects right now I'm starting to worry I'll drop a ball. Usually your balls dropping is a good thing. But not in this case.  My current projects (the ones I can tell everyone about) are...

• Editing BEST NEW TALES OF THE APOCALYPSE with Bobbie
• Writing a 20,000-word novella for a David Conyers / Brian Sammons Cthulhu project (closed to submissions)
• Writing a 2,000 or 4,000-word short story to submit to BLOOD LITE 2 (open to the HWA only)
• Co-authoring a second novel with screenwriter/producer Richard Finney
• Promoting the first Finney-and-Snell novel, DEMON DAYS

Almost half of the projects have December deadlines  

[HOO-HAA]

Hey  ,

What would be your preference:

1) Briefs
2) Boxers
3) Freestyle!

[Snell]

Depends on the pants I'm wearing (or not wearing).

Carhartts: I'm wearing briefs, otherwise I get a male camel toe
Cargos: gotta go with boxers; the pants are loose enough, and, to quote Kramer, "You know, sometimes they need air. They can't breathe in there. It's inhuman."
My birthday suit: total balls-to-the-wall freestyle...

[Kody Boye]

My birthday suit: total balls-to-the-wall freestyle...

I assume this proves you are not some strange, subhuman creature whose dangly bits do not come out of a fold of skin then?

[Bobbie]

Carhartts: I'm wearing briefs, otherwise I get a male camel toe

Do I even want to know what this means?   

[Thom Brannan]

male camel toe is actually known as "moose knuckle."

[Bobbie]

That doesn't clear it up at all, Gren. 

[Thom Brannan]

pictoral evidence, then:

camel toe:

[Thom Brannan]

and more:

[Rob Pegler]

Google it and be amazed, Bob.