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One final note: when you are making your editor meeting ranking choices, please be careful about confusing Raelene Gorlinsky with Liz Gorinsky of Tor.
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If your tastes in SF/Fantasy run in other directions, particularly dark ones, head for Liz Gorinsky (she of the genuinely interesting photo next to her conference blurb).
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More on conference strategy follows, but for now, let's move on to the editor du jour, Liz Gorinsky of Tor.Here is her blurb from elsewhere on this very site:
"Liz Gorinsky (Editor) is an Assistant Editor at Tor Books, where she edits a list that includes acclaimed fantasy authors Dave Duncan, Cherie Priest, and Jeff VanderMeer.
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"Liz is primarily interested in acquiring books in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres.She tends to prefer works that are dark, weird, literary, or genre-bending, have feminist or GBLT interest, or are some combination of the above; but has been known to surprise herself.As an avid fan of theatre and comic books, she is also open to looking at fantastical works in either of those mediums.
"Liz came to Tor after studying English, psychology, and computer science at Columbia College in New York City, but she is much more likely to draw on skills learned during a three year stint as president of the Columbia University Science Fiction Society.
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Because Ms. Gorinsky is an assistant editor — and thus, as she tells us, often edits work acquired by other editors, I am not completely comfortable relying upon the standard industry databases as an indicator of her interests.Since Tor operates mostly in paperback, which has a higher turnover than hardback, your safest bet is probably to go to a well-stocked bookstore with a solid SF/Fantasy section and look up the authors she lists above.
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Out of this impressive list, Ms. Gorinsky has chosen to tell you about only three: Dave Duncan, Cherie Priest, and Jeff VanderMeer.
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That may sound like a whole lot of work between now and the conference, but if you write in Ms. Gorinsky's chosen areas, it's well worth doing.Why?Because — wait for it — TOR ACCEPTS UNAGENTED MANUSCRIPTS.This means, realistically, that Ms. Gorinsky is one of the only editors attending the conference who could actually acquire a book directly from an author she met there.
Let's all pause for a moment to let those delicious little facts seep into our craniums.
Why, then, did I preface her write-up with an explanation of why editors almost never pick up books at conferences?So you would properly value your opportunity to pitch to Ms. Gorinsky, my friends.
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