Doing a bit of catch-up here… I did a fun guest post for the Dead Robots Society, which can be found here. It’s all about adding value to your query and succeeding in the slush pile. Enjoy!
I didn’t receive many queries during the two weeks of open submissions, but I wasn’t expecting many. I only opened the gates to the listeners of the Podioracket interview I did on Blog Talk Radio, for one thing, and any announcement that doesn’t receive much publicity won’t get much of a response. And it was [...]
Editors and agents reach a certain point in their slush-reading careers where a quick glance at a query will tell them whether it’s worth reading onward. You start to learn a certain set of warning signs, over time. For example, you learn after reading lots and lots of submissions that a query letter riddled with [...]
Initial responses have now been sent on all the queries I received during the Dragon Moon Press open submissions period. If you have not received either a rejection or a request for a full manuscript, I did not receive your query. Make sure you check the address posted in the submission guidelines and try again. [...]
This may sound a bit obvious, but when you send a query, please send it to the correct address as specified by a publisher’s submissions guidelines. If a submissions address is listed for a publisher, whether it’s a physical address or an e-mail address, that’s the best address to which you can direct a submission. [...]
