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Caito Potato ([info]caito) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2008-11-12 19:53:00


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Entry tags:authorwank, self-published

Specious Missive from the Blogbag
Here's a small but tasty writers' wank that has nothing to do with NaNoWriMo!

Editorial Anonymous is a blog written by an anonymous editor at a mystery publisher, who answers questions about published, how to query, etc. All in all, it's generally a good source for aspiring authors.

Of course, every now and then, the blogger receives something completely out of left field. Like this, an email from someone seeking a publicist. The blogger removes the sender's name before posting the email, but leaves the long list of self-published works untouched. Naturally, it's Google fodder, and the sender's identity is easily discovered.

Is it hilarious? Or is it unkind? Depends which commenter you ask, and they're all more than willing to share their thoughts on yaoi the email. Most especially one Will Entrekin, himself a writer published via Lulu, who seems to think he's kind of a big deal. His collection was the very first e-book on Apple's iPhone, you guys, he said so himself!

All in all, this wank report is a quick, fun read. I give myself a five star review! All I need now is a publicist. Know any random bloggers I could email about that?

ETA: The anonymous blogger states that she decided to post the Googleable list of works "not because it was funny but because coming at the end of a letter complaining about her lack of success, titles like "How to Be Wealthy Selling Informational Products on the Internet"; "How to Become Wealthy Selling Ebooks"; and "How To Become Wealthy Selling Products on The Internet" smack strongly of fraud."



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[info]shadowmonkey
2008-11-12 10:59 pm UTC (link)
The other posts under the "How to tell you're never going to get published" tag are pulling me in like a TVTropes tractor beam.
5 stars.

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[info]souris
2008-11-12 11:40 pm UTC (link)
Aagh! Extra creepy God in "Don't spam the editors part four"!

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[info]anonyrat
2008-11-20 10:10 pm UTC (link)
Which brings me to a perennial point that cannot be made frequently enough: If you don't remember what it's like to be a child, you don't get to write for them.

You, dumbasses: Have you only just realized that you have an imagination? And now you feel all artsy and free and want to inflict it on defenseless children?
(a) You're really rediscovering your imagination, and
(b) That magical ringing in your ears is the rust falling off.


Awesome advice, but...I didn't know enough people tried to publish children's books informing children that they could use their imagination for it to become an irritant.

It's like that time I was looking at submission guidelines for some fantasy short fiction magazine and one of the rules was "stop submitting police procedurals or private eye stories in a high fantasy setting".

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