Let's say you have a story that you want to submit to F&SF. Let's also say that the story is finally ready to be sent today, August 18.
August 18 happens to be the day of the F&SF slush bomb, when (supposedly) a bunch of women were going to send a story to that mag en masse. Unfortunately, you are not a woman (because you're me) and the story you plan to send is full of boy cooties. IOW, swordfights, brothel, dead monster, brothers betraying each other, that sort of thing.
There's no way in hell F&SF is going to buy this story. They've never bought anything you've sent them, and they certainly don't buy this. In fact, the only reason you're mailing it to them is because it has the words "venom cock" in it. (Okay, there are two reasons: maybe they will buy it after all--even though they won't.)
Here're the questions:
Do you send it to them today, so it will arrive with the slush bomb? Do you hold on to it for two weeks and send it then? Or do you not bother to send it at all?
What do you think?
August 18 happens to be the day of the F&SF slush bomb, when (supposedly) a bunch of women were going to send a story to that mag en masse. Unfortunately, you are not a woman (because you're me) and the story you plan to send is full of boy cooties. IOW, swordfights, brothel, dead monster, brothers betraying each other, that sort of thing.
There's no way in hell F&SF is going to buy this story. They've never bought anything you've sent them, and they certainly don't buy this. In fact, the only reason you're mailing it to them is because it has the words "venom cock" in it. (Okay, there are two reasons: maybe they will buy it after all--even though they won't.)
Here're the questions:
Do you send it to them today, so it will arrive with the slush bomb? Do you hold on to it for two weeks and send it then? Or do you not bother to send it at all?
What do you think?
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- 14 Jan 2019, 21:47Oh, yeah, excellent point.
- 14 Jan 2019, 21:46Oh yeah. Like the lawyers who get obvious really venal criminals off because it makes their success rate look good. But those are not the ones I am referring to in meaning well. These guys are mixed…
- 14 Jan 2019, 20:37This reminds me of the time my wife was injured and the insurance guy handling her case did everything possible to deny and stall the payment. We had to put her surgery on a credit card because this…
- 14 Jan 2019, 19:24The creepiest part is that some of them are actually well meaning.
- 14 Jan 2019, 19:08Yeah. It's godawful what people will do when they have authority and no fear about using it.
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Why put yourself in an avalanche of stories if you don't have to?
The PO's have this computer thingy so you can now mail at all times of the day. All you need is plastic.
Maybe that doesn't make sense, but there you go.