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how not to get published

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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:33 am    Post subject: how not to get published Reply with quote

Or,
how to anger the writing/publishing community at large:

http://theswivet.blogspot.com/2008/05/lessons-in-how-to-never-get-agent-part.html

(I thought this would be vaguely amusing/horrifying for some of you.)

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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is so funny! What a moron for actually sending that letter!

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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh dear. Someone didn't have their wheaties that morning.

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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh my God. I do not want to be an agent. That sort of crap would give me a hernia for laughing so hard.

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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fail. In all epic splendor.

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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love the typos, the misused semicolon, and the missing hyphen. ^^

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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

*twitch* >.o
Ow. Just, ow. And the guy's over 40 years old? o.< Maybe he just had a bad day? Hopefully?

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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, seriously - fourteen pages?! Holy. Moly.

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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's insane, and he's an idiot. He might hurt someone if he joined something like YWS.

But really. 14 paragraph rant on nothing? *shakes head*


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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Leja wrote:
Oh dear. Someone didn't have their wheaties that morning.


Haha, that's for sure!

This guys insane. There's more than one publishing company, guy! You don't harrass one that tells you no!

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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow. That's sounds like something a friend of mine would do. Confused
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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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This guys insane. There's more than one publishing company, guy! You don't harrass one that tells you no!


Apparently, this guy had sent a similar response to a number of different agents who rejected his work.

The other funny/unfortunate thing is that this has been making its way around numerous blogs of writers, publishers, and agents of the genre. And because it's such a tightly-knit community, a lot of pretty important authors, agents, and publishers have probably read this or have at least seen it. (I found it off of John Scalzi's blog, which is frequented by Tor publishers Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, authors like Scott Westerfield and Charles Stross, and numerous other prolific people in the sci-fi/fantasy genre.) Whoops on his part.

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