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- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!nott!emr1!thiessen
- From: thiessen@emr1.emr.ca (Tracy Thiessen)
- Subject: Re: Publishers of the wierd... info request
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.125928.10990@emr1.emr.ca>
- Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
- References: <1992Dec17.213146.1@hamp.hampshire.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:59:28 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Dec17.213146.1@hamp.hampshire.edu> bgardner@hamp.hampshire.edu writes:
- >Hi :)
- >I'm a writer who writes really wierd things... like as in my stuff has
- >been compared to Beckett and Albee and Joyce (depending on what I'm writing)
- >and I would like to start being published now. Every one who has ever read
- >my work has loved it (even those who hate me), but I didn't think I was ready
- >until this point. But now the problem is finding publishers... from looking
- >over and over at the Writers Market I can not find any one who seems avant
- >garde enough... is that a failing on the part of the listers, or are there
- >truely no publishers out there that are willing to take a risk on something
- >that has never been tried before. What I'm looking to publish is a play
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Everything, but every thing, has been tried before.
-
- In response to a similar query, a pretty astute fellow
- in another news group pointed out that "if there's meat
- there, (publishers) will be able to smell it". Pick a
- couple of publishing houses and fire out the manuscript.
- If your stuff is really that good, it will find a home.
-
- Tracy
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