"Remember the editor’s deepest wish: Send something perfect for us, please. So your job is to help the editor by sending work that is developed, complete, thoroughly revised, and—of great importance—appropriate for the magazine. To do that last part of your job well, you have to read the magazines. Yes, you do." “You can’t expect to be a professional if you don’t do your own homework.” "Do not take the rejection slip, underline words or phrases on it, and send it back with a scrawled note saying: “‘Doesn’t suit your needs at this time?’ YOUR needs? Well, who cares about you and your pretentious magazine that I never liked anyway, etc., etc.” When people do this, editors post the missives in the office, to be mocked as coming from an immature writer who completely misunderstands how impersonal this is. You may set fire to rejection slips, show them proudly to your friends, use them as coasters for consolatory margaritas, but do not write anything in response." thereviewreview.net/publishing-tips/what-editors-want-must-read-writers-submitti
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 18:14:51 +0000
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