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Starbeam:

--- Quote from: Kali on December 03, 2011, 03:34:13 PM ---Uh, why didn't he ever contact the editor?  It's quite permissible and professional to say, "I sent a submission to you six weeks ago and have yet to hear back.  Could you please confirm you received it?"  Crap happens, manuscripts get misplaced, editors leave houses, new editors come in and they bring their own stories with them with the result that the old slush pile gets buried even more.

Did he even check to make sure this editor accepts un-agented manuscripts?

If you're going to bleat about this being a business and editors should be professional, you can't then abrogate your own professional responsibilities.

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Considering some of the tips he gave at the end of the blog, you'd think he would've followed up.  But again, the entire thing was a challenge-though sounds more like a game-and he didn't really even care about that particular idea.  Rob and I discussed this yesterday--the guy's likely leaving out all the pertinent info like that to get people to think what he wants them to.  I've only read a couple other blog posts by the guy, but they all have this same sort of superior-than-thou sort of tone. 

And he likes to point out that all this was in 2009, before publishing changed, but even back then, I'm pretty sure most publishers weren't accepting unsolicited stuff.  Hell, when I first started looking into submission guidelines, in college-around 2000-most of what I found was that they didn't want unsolicited/unagented stuff.

meg_evonne:
Since we are discussing agents and have mentioned referrals, here is a related post I saw on twitter.

http://www.rachellegardner.com/2011/10/agent-referrals-recommendations/

trboturtle:
The same author has a new blog post up discussing the changing relationship between agents and writers and publishers.

Craig

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