tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post6539977678751101195..comments2024-03-27T23:53:59.771-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: Dominating the SubmissionsLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-78547558185876414352019-02-20T11:27:21.514-05:002019-02-20T11:27:21.514-05:00I agree with all your suggestions, Rob.
Telling ...I agree with all your suggestions, Rob. <br />Telling an editor your "requirements" is sort of like telling a judge what you'll accept for a sentence. It almost never goes well. <br /><br />Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-46093997230302945092019-02-20T08:49:55.363-05:002019-02-20T08:49:55.363-05:00Being a new writer was both harder and easier in t...Being a new writer was both harder and easier in the days of typewriters and snail mail. Because it wasn't possible to simultaneously send a message to hundreds of people one didn't know to ask where to submit a manuscript, one had to do actual research—spend time in the library or at the newsstand, look at magazines, discover <i>Writer's Market,</i> and so on.<br /><br />And back then one could attach a twenty-dollar bill to the last page of one's ms. If one's story was returned and the twenty was missing, one at least knew the editor had read it all the way to the end.<br /><br />The key, then and now, is to get one's manuscripts circulating. Even if one sometimes targets the wrong market and has a rejection come flying back at boomerang speed, one learns the process: Submit and keep submitting until one's story is accepted or there are no more markets where one can send it.<br /><br />(Apparently, having just reread the above, my word of the day is: One.)<br /><br />Michael Brackenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01072019804281421944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-66008452617711687682019-02-20T08:06:03.221-05:002019-02-20T08:06:03.221-05:00Good advice and I like the cat carrier- also the c...Good advice and I like the cat carrier- also the cat.janice lawnoreply@blogger.com