Reasons manuscripts get rejected...
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deborahjrossCheck out Wendy Loggia (editor at Delacorte) 's keynote address at SCBWI on reasons "almost there" manuscripts get rejected. Some are familiar, but this one was new to me:
4. The writer seems like a difficult person to work with. Wendy always Googles an author’s name before offering a contract. She says she may be prompted to change her mind about signing up an author if they share too much information in their blog, if they tend to blog a lot about how hard writing is, if they blog about being rejected many times, if they publicly bash a book she’s worked on, or if they bash a colleague in the business who is her friend.
4. The writer seems like a difficult person to work with. Wendy always Googles an author’s name before offering a contract. She says she may be prompted to change her mind about signing up an author if they share too much information in their blog, if they tend to blog a lot about how hard writing is, if they blog about being rejected many times, if they publicly bash a book she’s worked on, or if they bash a colleague in the business who is her friend.
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Date: 2009-09-07 06:04 pm (UTC)I think it's interesting how some people react with, "another check list of things to avoid," which imho is true and not-true. Editors are as capable of saying offhand snarky things as anyone, and I do see them as even more beleaguered than in times past. Between corporate pressures, financial craziness, and an inundation of drekprose facilitated by the internet/email, they have precious little time to do what they love. Having read slush -- international pornographic slush under the guise of fantasy, at that -- I have a certain sympathy for filters.