Sentences with phrase «manuscripts over the transom»

Here's what interests me most about our changed landscape: In the past, writers could spend years trying to get a single manuscript over the transom.

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I often long for Back Then when the big houses would accept any manuscript «over the transom.»

This is called «over the transom» submission because it humorously refers to authors that would chuck their manuscript through the transom of the publishers» offices (assumedly, it wouldn't fit in the mail slot).

The problem is they have yet to figure out how to consistently identify best sellers when a manuscript comes over the transom.