Commentary
#Queryfail
by Mary Cunnane •
There’s a hashtag used among the publishing Twitterati to denote the laughable efforts of would-be authors whose approach to agents and/or publishers is not up to snuff. #Queryfail appears regularly in the tweets of one Major Publishing Player in particular, signalling the sins of yet another supplicant who failed to contact her in the preferred manner, didn’t read her submission guidelines, or asked her to be friends on Facebook and then sent her a publishing pitch. The nerve.
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Comments (6)
DAMNED good article! And DAMNED well written!
Our Yank publishers would do well to remember that without the fodder (manuscripts), their cannons fire only blanks.
I -- and, no doubt, many others -- thank you for your sentiments.
There is indeed -- as you so graciously and generously suggested -- gold "in them there hills." But it takes a miner(ess) to mine it -- and a mind to find it.
Russell
#Acumen fail.