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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Really? 10% good enough to just print and another 10% that can be printed after editing isn't much better than 1-5% that could be printed, but only a fraction will get bought by the publisher where they were submitted?
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Oh, it's "better".
Much better is a judgment call.
I think part of the problem is advances in technology. These days, for example, nobody submits hardcopy. They submit a Word document as an email attachment. An editor may
print out a hardcopy to do line edits, as many find circling things that are issues, making marginal notes and the like easier than trying to do it all on screen, but the initial submission is electronic.
My guess is that this leads to an enormously greater number of submissions. It's so easy: all you need is a manuscript and an email sddress to send to.
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And you don't think that that should be the norm?
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I wish it were the norm. Too many folks these days seem to lack notions like "What market publishes the sort of thing I'm writing?"
Thank you.
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And he got back on the horse and wrote another book.
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Exactly right. (Though Harry wrote short fiction as well as novels, and likely collected the rejections on those.)
Harry considered himself an SF fan, who just happened to write the stuff professionally. The money he made from writing paid for the SF conventions he liked to attend. His day job was science teacher in a private school, and he'd sometimes bring students to local cons with him.
Give a topic to talk about, and a group of people to talk to, and he was happy.
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Dennis