Tuesday, December 08, 2009

The subtle art of form rejection

I'm still cackling over this post at Editorial Anonymous.

And just to brighten up your day here's a picture of her slush monster created by Melinda Beavers
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7 comments:

  1. Josin L. McQuein12/8/09, 11:26 AM

    I LOVE the slushmonster. And I hear he gets along very well with sharks ;-)

    (Seriously, it's a symbiotic relationship. He eats the letters, the shark eats the writers. I'm not sure where the octopus fits in, though.)

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  2. Janet Reid12/8/09, 11:39 AM

    Don't forget my Herpet-American assssistant also.

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  3. Rebecca Knight12/8/09, 11:48 AM

    We would never forget your faithful assssssissssstant!

    This slush monster always gets an "awww!" from me :).

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  4. Josin L. McQuein12/8/09, 1:17 PM

    Yipes... so embarrassing. I thought your assistant was a stray tentacle. :-D

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  5. Kate12/8/09, 5:18 PM

    The slush monster makes me smile, but the list of Things Not To Send in Slush Ever Again makes me laught out loud EVERY TIME.

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  6. Furious D12/8/09, 6:03 PM

    I read that blog about how to interpret "Not for me thanks."

    However, it failed to interpret a "not for me thanks" written by an agent on toilet paper in their own blood.

    I guess my paper didn't have the right watermark.

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  7. Steve Stubbs12/9/09, 8:33 PM

    The response needs to be more subtle IMO. Try this:

    Q: "My question is, how does an author figure out if rejections are due to: agent not interested in novellas (word count), weak query, manuscript has a weak opening, weak writing, silly premise, etc, or that the project is altogether unsellable?"

    A: Yes.

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