how not to get published

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

http://theswivet.blogspot.com/2008/05/l ... -part.html

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

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

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

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

Fail. In all epic splendor.

XD

-:pirate3:

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

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

Ahhh.

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

XD

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*


Dreamer

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!



I'm never becoming an agent.

~JFW1415

Wow. That's sounds like something a friend of mine would do.

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.