Happy New Year to one and all!
You enrich and enlighten me with your comments and contributions. You amaze and delight me with your wit and knowledge. It's my great pleasure to be in your company.
I hope 2006 is a fabulous year for you!
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50 comments:
You too, Miss Snark! You rock!
Will we see you in Times Square tonight??
Equalmente! as we sometimes say in my neck of the cactus.
Happy New Year, Miss Snark and thank you for your help and advice in 2005.
Right back at ya Miss Snark! Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year, Miss Snark! I'll be lookin' for you and Killer Yapp in Times Square tonight!
Love you, Miss Snark.
All good fortune to you this New Year.
We're raising our glasses, already.
To you, Miss Snark!
Mary xxx John xxx
MS,
May all the flakes that fall on you this New Year's Eve be of snow only!
RRB
In 2006, may every synopsis sent to you be clear and compelling, may every query send shivers of excitement up your spine, and may every editor (and George Clooney) fall at your feet in adoration of your snarkiness, six-figure offers held aloft in their hands (or, in the case of George, a platinum pail of gin and matching ring with a rock the size of a pigeon.)
In short--may 2006 be the Snarkiest yet!
"You enrich and enlighten me with your comments and contributions. You amaze and delight me with your wit and knowledge. It's my great pleasure to be in your company."
Stop looking in the mirror. :)
Happy New Year!
Let's all offer a toast to Miss Snark at midnight.
Let's change our tradtion to "Auld Lang Snark"!
Let's create a National Day of Snark to remember her to posterity.
Long live the Snark...
Happy New Year, Miss Snark. Wishing you the very best for 2006!
Happy New Year, Miss Snark. I'm amazed at your patience and energy in operating the Crapometer with such care and humor. I've learned a lot from your comments and from the comments of other Snarklings. You clearly love your work and care about good writing. And in spite of your merciless manhandling of us authors, I can tell you're a nice person. Thanks for all you do.
Happy New Year, Miss Snark
You've been a revelation
Hauoli Makahiki Hou! Thanks for everything, Miss Snark. :) You're too cool.
Happy New Year, Miss Snark. I look forward to more of your advice in 2006.
Miss Snark,
May your gin glass be overflowing with gin berries in 2006.
Thank you for all your support and humor - what would we do without you?
Same to you, Miss Snark!
One of my goals for the new year is to get agency representation and get my book published. Finding your blog, I have no doubt, has increased my chances. It's a delight to hear something from an agent that is not a "Dear Author," form letter (I've collected a few already!). I suspect because you cannot individually reply to people in your rejection pile at the office(fearful of death by resubmission or just irrational retorts) that doing the crapometer is a way to help you help us-- a step removed (sorta like Don Maass and the "Breakout Novel" workshops-- they are terrific tools and he may get the type of "breakout" novels he wants to represent). It's a win-win.
I hope 2006 brings a new platinum gin pail, a diamond-studded collar for That Dog of yours *s* (My Fat Cat would make short work of K.Y., I fear) and a fateful meeting with the Clooney of your dreams. I could probably thank you enough but then the monitor would draw ants and you'd never look at anything I posted again!
Happy New Year. And THANK YOU! <
A Fan
May the new year find you buried in new books that you truly fall in love with.
Have a great and wonderful New Years! Good people deserve good things to happen. So with that, I truly believe you'll have many years of good luck and happiness.
Jon
hello miss snark i will be whatching for you in times square tonight
May the new year bring you a Clooney and a Grisham! Happy New Year Miss Snark!
Cheers, Miss Snark! Wishing you and all the Snarklings a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!
Compared to yours, our wits "pail" in comparrison.
(Prememptive apologies to all - and a Happy 2006)
XXX OOO
George Clooney was caught doodling :~)
Happy New Year to you as well, Miss Snark! Thanks for all the help you've provided us.
Message for Bonnie Calhoun: the answer to your question on the At Last! blog is count down the names in the comments. Add that to what the puzzle stated.
Happy New Year to you too!!! Thank you so much for your Snarkabulous aid to all us hopefuls and aspirings out here in the big bad world of writing ;)
Hope the New Year brings you so many wonderful things and not a trace of a hangover ;)
Warmly,
Jenny:)
Happy New Year's resolutions to you, too...and thank you!
Happy New Year, Miss Snark!
Thank you for the excellence herein, and may everyone's '06 be all snark and no fright...
With the new year comes a new readers poll, er, the ninth one that is. You can vote or nominate anything published in 2005 in the P&E Readers Poll at http://www.critters.org/predpoll/ , so mosey on over if you want to participate.
Cynthia writes:
Happy New Year, Miss Snark! Thanks for (a) your enlightening comments on these synopses, and on a more personal level, (b) for helping me to shake free of my agent phobia!
Here's to you selling a multi-week NYT #1 best-seller, George falling at your feet, and Killer Yapp getting the Prada bag of his choice to sport around town in!
The very same to you Miss Snark. Much love to you!
Happy New Year, Miss Snark. Your blog is great! Thank you for your advice.
Emelle
Best wishes for you for the coming year, Miss Snark. Thanks for everything you do on this blog.
You had me from Hello:)
A healthy and rewarding 2006 to you and the mighty Yapp.
Happy New Year, Miss S. Keep up the good snark.
Happy New Year, Miss Snark! May all the nitwits get a clue and may George Clooney finally realize that he is nothing without you!
Thanks for all of the good advice and know that it is truly appreciated!
Dave: I luv ya' dude, but I'm going to hunt you down, flip all the little letters off of your keyboard and then impale your fingers on the little tabs(insert maniacal laughter here)
It's the Year of the Snark! Happy 2006 to you, Miss Snark, and to all my fellow snarklings.
Sigh. Only a couple of hours into the new year and already I've broken my resolution to go to bed earlier. Good night, all.
Happy New Year, Miss Snark. Thank you for the wonderful work you do here.
Happy New Year, Miss Snark. And my three-year-old cocker spaniel, Matilda, asked me to say Hey and Happy 2006 to Killer Yap. She hopes he likes girls with black curls and slender waists. She's a bit nervous about the Killer part and hopes he doesn't have any tattoos. But she has no problem with kissing on the first date. Oh, and she wants him to know up front that there's no chance of her giving him baby Yaps. The vet took care of that.
Thank you, Dave.
Went and voted for Miss Snark in the Other category.
Yes, I noticed that Miss Snark is currently tied for first place in her category.
Bonnie! Gasp! You didn't solve the puzzle? I even stated in a much earlier post on one critique that "I am Spartacus." How much more do you need?
Happy New Year to Everyone!
Miss Snark has been working overtime for us this week.
Many thanks.
Happy New Year, Miss S.
What I've most got out of this exercise of synopsnizing--why an agent turns something down. It's been illuminating just for that alone, never mind how badly written something might or might not be.
As everyone else has said: thank you so much for spending your valuable time on a bunch of wannabees.
Amd Makoiyi the IW says happy new year to KIller Yap.
Happy New Year and thanks!
Linda
Happy New Year to you, Miss Snark, and may your gin pail never run dry (except in the sense of London Dry Gin, of course).
Dave: ROFLMAO...that's why I'm not a video-gamer!
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