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- From: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
- Subject: Re: Misc.writing Recommended Booklist
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:29:41 GMT
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- In article <Bs7o84.Hx4@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, mjanzen@healthy.uwaterloo.ca (Michael Edward Janzen) writes:
- |I've done a bit of reading lately, and there is disagreement
- |regarding multiple submissions. It seems logical to me to
- |send copies to at least a few publishers to start, since I
- |hear it may be necessary to send a manuscript to a couple
- |dozen (or more) places before anyone shows interest, yet I
- |hear that publishers are less likely to read a multiple
- |submission! So what do I do?
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- Check out the publisher's entry in Writer's Marketplace or its ilk.
- Some say simultaneous submissions are OK, some do not. I sent my
- MS out in a wave to all simultaneous OK houses I was interested in
- at once, then, when I had either heard from all or waited long
- enough to end up sending a withdrawal notice, I started in on the
- non-simultaneous houses, making sure to note in the cover letter that
- this was a photocopy, but not a simultaneous submission.
-
- With the exception of one editor who simply returned the MS in the
- SASE utterly without comment, no one seemed offended by this. I don't
- know, of course, WHAT got into that particular editor. (I also
- didn't get accepted by anyone, but I did collect a good number of
- considerate responses that indicated that the editors or their
- subclones had actually read the MS.)
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- --Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC | sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
- Hellenic poet of the same name. |
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