Sentences with phrase «taking submissions of manuscripts»

While still taking submissions of manuscripts — often unagented submissions, which has been attractive to authors who've been rejected by the first level of gatekeeper to the industry — the numbers of rejected manuscripts from these new publishers are surprisingly low.

Not exact matches

When informed that students petition to take the advanced fiction writing class by means of a manuscript submission the previous term, and that its prerequisites were beginning and intermediate courses, Sister Ursula disputed neither the existence nor the wisdom of these procedures.

Unfortunately, a significant number of writers who take advantage of the manuscript submission process fail to reap the full benefit by not seeing it for what it really is.

Even if the submission guidelines are like, «Each corner of the manuscript must be dabbed with the urine of an incontinent civet cat and the writer must write his name backwards for the magic to take hold,» you do that shit because you're not a pretty pretty unicorn, you're a horse like the rest of us, goddamnit.)

I did my research and sent my manuscript off to about forty agents and a couple of publishers that took open submissions.

Since I have been through the process (fire) of publishing a book, I want to reach out to writers working on a manuscript, and encourage them to push through the writers block, accept the enormous amount of time it will take you to work with an editor to make your manuscript the best it can be, and the gigantic amount of time it will take you to research, submit and wait to hear, if you ever do, from the publishers, small presses, and literary agents who received your submission.

As a special service of Compass Rose Horizons, we can take your finished electronic manuscript and convert it to a «standard manuscript» format for submission to publishers and agents.

Preparing your manuscript for submission can be done as simply as letting us take care of getting it ready to be published.

It does make me wonder though, how eager were the trad pubs to adopt electronic manuscript submissions and take advantage of electronic distribution of advance reader copies?

Wouldn't one of them — at the very least — have bumped the manuscript of this letter back to the authors with an admonition to review Langenberg's very recent publication — which Willis demonstrates is freely accessible online - and incorporate in their submission some indication that they had at least taken due note of such observations, analyses, and conclusions as had come into the literature by way of Langenberg's thesis?