Too busy!

With school starting up I have band camp, inservice, administrative days, and then actual school. I need to find a book to replace "ender's game" in my proposal, but don't have the time to do that right now. It bugs me to think that the proposal is not being shopped around right now because of this missing link. I just don't have time to fix it!

Ender's game was so perfect for a comparison, and the fact that it was being made into a movie increased the value of that work. I wish I could just leave it in there, but the risk of offending one of the people responsible for perusing proposals is too great. If one person stands in the doorway to the publishing world, I dare not give him the finger! 

Ender's Game

So I see that the movie "Ender's Game" is coming out.  I read this book WAAAY back in my childhood, and recall enjoying it.  I had to brush up on it a bit in my proposal.  I love the similarities in my thoughts and the author's in that we both have young protagonists, both have them going into a military-like training for extra-terrestrial warfare, and both have big burdens for protecting the planet.  My book series will go a bit into Earth's past as well as the future, and in comparison I am going a different way all together.  Getting published still is obviously the biggest hurdle, but I am not above the waiting game.

I see the static that is flying about the gay marriage issue for Orson Scott.  I would be inclined to ask "Why go there?" Does it play a role in the story line of your book? does it change or shape your main character? What relevance does the argument have on the good story you want to tell?

I watch lots of movies and read lots of books, and often I find myself disagreeing with actors, authors, or agencies, but the love of a good plot is just too ripe to become so idealistic I can't enjoy the story.  Ender's game was a good book.  I imagine it will be a good movie.  Why sour the milk with modern-day politics? Let's just enjoy the story for what it is.