A publisher announced they
wanted mss. I had one of just the right genre. I looked at their details. My ms
was too long by 20 k words, too many to revise. I was relieved. I didn’t have
to send it.
I know, I know. Submitting
is part of the process. So is getting rejected. So is marketing once you get
published, and maybe before, “building your platform,” which sounds more like
preparation for diving or ski jumping. Come to think of it, ski jumping is a
good image for submitting manuscripts.
I know a short story
writer who says he gets published more than other writers not because he’s a
better writer but because he’s a better submitter. “I have the next periodical
or publisher cued up from the moment I have submitted to the last one. On the
same day a rejection comes, I submit to the next one on the list.” I admire
that. I hate doing that.
I like writing. I like
having written. I like getting published. I like people telling me I’m a great
writer. I just don’t like that step in between the writing and the accolades.
Maybe I’ll write about that so I can put off having to submit...
John
Robert McFarland
Daughter
Katie Kennedy’s Learning to Swear in
America will be published by J. K. Rowling’s publisher, Bloomsbury Press,
in 2016.
My
novel, VETS, about four handicapped
and homeless Iraqistan veterans who are accused of murdering a VA doctor, will
be published by Black Opal Books in 2015.
I tweet as yooper1721.
I also write Christ In
Winter: Reflections on Faith from a Place of Winter for the Years of Winter. http://christinwinter.blogspot.com/
A PLUG FOR ONE OF MY OTHER
BOOKS:
AN ORDINARY MAN
[HarperPaperbacks] Randall MacLane just wanted to be an ordinary man. But sent
with a message for Custer, he became a drifting lawman with a knack for
killing, and a deep well of loneliness. Then a twist of fate brought him full
circle…
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