Dear Unpublished Guy:
I usually don’t respond to the pathetic pleas of a person who has made the misplaced presumption that they are a writer. As I indicated in my initial communication, your submission exceeded our gazette’s word count by …
Dear Unpublished Guy:
Do you actually think kittens are tasty? Judging by the short story you submitted to our journal, you must have dined exclusively on kittens for many years. To call your submission fiction would be inaccurate. In …
Dear Ms Unpublished Guy:
We were dismayed that your short story title, Happy People, had not intended to be ironic. The gratuitous acts of good will were truly appalling. We have never before read a story that contained so …
Dear Unpublished Guy:
In response to your book proposal:
We applaud your effort to write a free verse epic villanelle. However, as is clearly stated in our submission guidelines we don’t accept Ambrose Bierce Wormhole Westerns. Clearly, the epic …
Publishing in a Bad Economy – Milk, Internet Gambling, Cannibalism
The economy is still rough out there. Keeping yourself fed while you churn out fiction stories for publication can be a difficult task. Here are five tips to generate …
Dear Deranged Individual,
No absolutely not.
What are you smoking?
Sincerely,
Blue Oyster Cult, Editors…
Dear Individual,
Thank you for submitting your fiction to Screw You magazine.
We enjoy reading so many fine short stories, and selecting the fiction to publish can be a difficult decision. So difficult that we often need to read submissions …
Link #2. Progress on July Novel Writing Month 2009.
According to Google Analytics, about 70% of the visitors to the Unpublished Guy Blog are new. I like a Title with three 7s, however, so I am going to say that …
#9 Do – Send editors an assortment of thank you chocolates and convections,
even if they have rejected your manuscript.
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Snowflake-Like Fractal Cauliflower, Symbol of Fiction Publishing Methodology
The Snowflake Guy has a little quiz you can take to evaluate how far you are on your way to publishing fiction. (Is it just me …
