it would be great if some of those wonderful presses included
PDF samplers or something like that on their sites for more far-
flung chaps like myself... i'm also not rolling in US coin like
some of you out yar... *coughs*
if i dig the PDF, i'm much more likely to actually buy a hard
copy... if you're just going to "old boys" it, then we may never
get to you... i'll lump myself in with this scorned group of blind
submitters as, on occasion, i simply take a stab at it... why
not... all of my submission these days are e-style and it only
costs me my time... knock 'em dead, Steve...
surely you've found something wonderful in an unsolicited, not
well researched submission, as John mentioned... i know the
likelihood of receiving some shite is much higher but not out of
the realm of possibility...
very possibly yours and perhaps worth blocking as to continue
to keep him secret-ish...
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Bob Marcacci
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
- Libbie Fudim
From: Lawrence Upton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:49:03 +0100
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BLIND SUBMISSION
The author thanks you.
I see Nate has made the obvious but justified response on Poetics; but if this helps just the one then it is worth it
One problem is that few actually go to the website. A lot of the stuff that comes to wf is sent on the basis of lists compiled without reference to us. Presumably by idiots
And another problem is arrogance - I had one this week saying they were sending work on the offchance wf accepted email submissions, detailing their terms of being published and requesting specimen publications
wf has a standard email text - basically the bit below + some expansions - for such stuff
some, as anyone who has run a press will know, are quite stroppy; and, if necessary, this website statement is the basis for cutting that - "if you can't do basic research" etc
now and then it is the basis for a productive relationship - depends how they respond to advice
however the bulk of inappropriate submissions is from people repulsed by the idea they should even read other people's poetry - and forget about paying for it
I was told the other day that as a publisher I have a moral duty to give those inclined to send me their work critical and practical guidance
he's on my blocked senders' list now
I think of Lee Marvin - "Lady, I don't have the time"
Or was it Hank Marvin?
L
-----Original Message-----I really appreciate this statement on the WRITERS FORUM site. I'd like
From: mIEKAL aND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, September 09, 2005 3:47 AM
Subject: BLIND SUBMISSION
to see these thought be more wide spread. I can't imagine how many
submissions I've received over the last 25 years where the person
submitting didn't have a clue:
"We strongly recommend that you familiarise yourself with the kind of
work published by a press, any press, large or small, commercial or
not, before you submit work to it. That is, buy their publications.
(Use the money you are going to save on postage by not wasting
submissions.) You will almost certainly discover some new work which
interests and perhaps pleases you; and you will have provided the press
with new customers, and its authors with new readers."
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/writersforum
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