What Editors Want: Avoiding an Instant Rejection

[Sam Perry]

Now you can get 160 pages of advice from over 180 editors for just $10.

Plus, the entire first chapter is now online and free to view or download.

The first chapter features the 12 reasons submissions get rejected before
they even get seriously considered.

Read all about it here: http://www.writingstuff.com/fb01l.html

[Alan Hope]

Post by Sam Perry
Now you can get 160 pages of advice from over 180 editors for just $10.

That's about one paragraph of quote per editor, allowing for
interstitial text to bring each one to the podium. A very inefficient
use of resources. Could you really find no-one whose views were worth
carrying at length? From among 180 editors?

I dare say ten bucks is not a lot for a book, even though it's a mere
160 pp. It could have been so much more, though, don't you think?

Post by Sam Perry
Plus, the entire first chapter is now online and free to view or download.
The first chapter features the 12 reasons submissions get rejected before
they even get seriously considered.

If that doesn't tell people everything they need to know, the chapter
must be very badly written. And if that's the case, who wants to buy
more of the same?

A chapter on the reasons MSS are rejected is also, I should have said,
a chapter on how MSS can avoid rejection, if only by default. But
you're giving that away for nothing, implying that the rest of the
book is where the riches lie. Can you follow through on that implied
promise?

Post by Sam Perry
Read all about it here: http://www.writingstuff.com/fb01l.html

Thanks, but I don't write fiction.