We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise This was printed with music as early as 1624, in East's Sixth Set of Books, and is found in many manuscripts.
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
Most of the untranscribed and unpublished manuscripts in the book popped out of boxes at me when I wasn't looking for them I picked them up out of the corner of my eye.
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy Remember the index expurgatorius, the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter, and the guillotine.
When he was most drunk and came home to dictate to me, he was so consistent and logical that a sober man could not have improved upon his manuscripts.
So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?
Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to get terms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.
I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
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