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Originally Posted by charlesatan
[...]Yes, they have trouble with the volume they receive but they're not afraid of "flooding the market" which was your previous entry.
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You may note that I did have a "?" on that bracketed sentence, I was trying to indicate that it was not an entirely apt analogy - I need more smilies
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Originally Posted by charlesatan
If they did not follow submission guidelines, yes, they will be rejected, regardless of the manuscript's quality. (Of course it begs the question, do you want to read a writer who can't read/follow instructions?)
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You imply that the only reason why submissions are ever rejected without full review by the acquisitions editor would be that the author did not "follow submission guidelines". What makes you so certain it never happens for other reasons?
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Originally Posted by charlesatan
I'm not against self-publishing (and have self-published a few times myself), but there's been some ridiculous claims such as "returning a published author to the slush pile". There's no such hierarchy. Either your manuscript is submitted by an agent, or it's in the slush pile.
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You are absolutely right, the idea of returning an author to the slush pile was rather ridiculous. Why would they bother? If they didn't want anything to do with the author there is another, more appropriate, receptacle.