Post by account_disabled on Dec 29, 2023 23:50:49 GMT -5
When I attended the editorial workshop “Di Lavoro Leggego”, organized by NN Editore, there was an interesting part – the one I appreciated the most – on the figure of the editorial reader . Who, in short, proposes a novel to a publishing house to publish. In that case the editorial reader fills out a reading sheet and among the information he enters he must also, and above all, indicate which series that novel may be part of . Yes, our novel must be part of a series . And I don't think any publisher in the world is willing to create one specifically for us. During the workshop we had to prepare a reading sheet together with an editorial reader. I, naively, asked if the publisher could create one for that novel. Her eyes widened as if I had said heresy.
When I proposed my essay on the laws of blogging to Anteprima edizioni, the publisher replied that it fit well into a new series that they had recently launched. From here we come to the third question to ask Special Data ourselves, once we have chosen our potential publishing house: can our novel be included in one of the series published by the publisher? A few words about sloppiness in writing Although I have specified on the frequently asked questions page - which I invite you to read on the Write to me page - that I do not read other people's manuscripts, more or less once a week I receive requests of this kind. I'm not a literary agent either and I'm not qualified to make judgments anyway. I'm a beta reader, but for a small number of people.
The time in the day is always the same for everyone. But I mentioned the sloppiness in the writing . Well, those emails I receive are all written ungrammatically: spaces before the comma, missing or wrong punctuation, and worse. My question – and yours, I imagine – arises spontaneously: do you intend to write to a publisher in that way to pitch your manuscript? If the answer is yes, do you really think I waste my time reading it? Those emails will be trashed, with a series of muttered expletives as background music. I would do it like this. I wouldn't feel like giving an answer to anyone who writes like that. Is getting published difficult? Yes it is. Nobody ever said it was easy. At no time in history, I suppose, has it ever been easy.
When I proposed my essay on the laws of blogging to Anteprima edizioni, the publisher replied that it fit well into a new series that they had recently launched. From here we come to the third question to ask Special Data ourselves, once we have chosen our potential publishing house: can our novel be included in one of the series published by the publisher? A few words about sloppiness in writing Although I have specified on the frequently asked questions page - which I invite you to read on the Write to me page - that I do not read other people's manuscripts, more or less once a week I receive requests of this kind. I'm not a literary agent either and I'm not qualified to make judgments anyway. I'm a beta reader, but for a small number of people.
The time in the day is always the same for everyone. But I mentioned the sloppiness in the writing . Well, those emails I receive are all written ungrammatically: spaces before the comma, missing or wrong punctuation, and worse. My question – and yours, I imagine – arises spontaneously: do you intend to write to a publisher in that way to pitch your manuscript? If the answer is yes, do you really think I waste my time reading it? Those emails will be trashed, with a series of muttered expletives as background music. I would do it like this. I wouldn't feel like giving an answer to anyone who writes like that. Is getting published difficult? Yes it is. Nobody ever said it was easy. At no time in history, I suppose, has it ever been easy.