Thank you for your recent query regarding representation. Having considered this, we've concluded that LMQ is not going to be the right fit for your project, but of course wish you all the best with it. Sincerely, LMQ [for Jason Anthony]
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
What's It All About?
if only more people read books...
ReplyDeletehey! were is the grammar Nazi on this post? lol
ReplyDeletei already meet the soup Nazi today in downtown AA and he told me not TO eat so NOISY lol
I'm not the grammar Nazi, but I am impressed that you didn't misspell any words. Maybe someday you can learn about proper capitalization and punctuation.
ReplyDeletedo you ever get feeling that we are being watched? like a black helicopter watching from the sky
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Khr45wT4o
ReplyDeletespelling enforcements hahhhah
Two significant observations got lost:
ReplyDelete1) Yes, old timer, a twenty-year-old intern, with the sensibilities of his/her age, is going to read (and reject) your manuscript.
2) Yes, the core problem is that few people want to read good fiction, so there's little financial incentive to publish it.
Can this blog solve those problems?
I think this blog can solve those problems.
ReplyDeleteWR should showcase three literary works every week -- and we, the readers, can vote on which one we want to continue reading. The lowest vote-getter gets replaced with a new work every week. The losing work would have seen the light of day for that one week at the very least.
You can see that I have given this considerable thought :)
We can start doing it by genre, by category, ... oooh, the possibilities!
How about it, WR? Will you be our savior?
How about bringing back the Rejected Story Corner?
ReplyDeletejust make sure that you never sent out to an Ann Arbor MI publisher or agent(university press), because if your not in the LIT. circle around here you will not make it in the pages. the prestige of U is wide lol.
ReplyDeletealso the huron river review is very nice and a respectful journal(which is why i'm not in myself lol) but only for students to submit. but even that only except the few and best.
the huron river review is ever fiction student dream to get published in,at wcc .
my local writing climate is difficult
who else has problems placing most
because i can help.
i own vintage poetry publishing
take up 5 poems goodozog@gmail.com
Well, the comment above is true for small college town's University press. I mean really, they aren't going to accept unsolicited submissions from Joe Blow, especially if you submit an ms outside their genre. I believe the UM press publishes non-fiction, no? So why would you submit poetry?
ReplyDeleteI used to live in a college town where the University was a big part of the lit scene (and I was not part of the U), HOWEVER, talented writers were always welcomed. Obviously not every successful writer is a student or faculty member, and obviously there comes a point when students graduate and no longer have their academic affiliation. You can't blame it all on not belonging to the U.
I think "Radek" is suffering from grand delusions about his writing abilities. If you keep on getting rejected, and you have atrocious grammar, perhaps there is a link between the two? Perhaps you can share your rejected work with us Anonymice. A rejected poetry corner.
Was it here, w/r, that I read about a site where you submit an outline of your plot and a sample of the beginning, and people vote on it? If it was here, could you give me the link? Because I can't hunt it down.
ReplyDeleteI visited the site, but the stuff on display was formulaic junk. Not literary fiction (which, unfortunately, is what I write). But maybe there could be an upscale variation of that idea?
There has to be another route!
rejection in poetry is very common.yes! but ever writer.
ReplyDeleteso many time when almost made but all doing music .
how many poems have you published
I never submitted to U press and this isn't just college town. we have so more that.... music and more
ReplyDeletethe U is a Ivory towner and a monster.
ReplyDeletenot everyone one in Ann Arbor is connected with the university,in fact the area which I live in Ann Arbor has no one getting into the U in anyway.
I'm "hip hop" dude so that I'm against the establishment and rather fight the power ,abusers. loosen your bow-tie ,dushbage lol
why do i have say this again?
ReplyDeletei do not sent,submit poem horribly misspelled .
when I'm going to get published iN RATTLE and poetry magazine one day then you will see the light.
look for my name thank you
from web page
ReplyDelete"The University of Michigan Press publishes both scholarly works and books of more general interest in the following areas:
"American History, Applied Linguistics, Classical Studies and Archaeology, Class Studies, Communications, Cultural Studies, Disability Studies, English as a Second Language, Fiction, Gender Studies, German Studies, Law, Literary Criticism and Theory, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Music, New Media, Poetics, Political Science, Theater and Performance, and Writing Craft."
I can only speak for myself, but I do wish you success Radek. But keep in mind that how you present yourself in public can affect your reputation. If I was an editor who read your comments here and saw your submissions in the slush pile, I would probably not bother reading your poems.
ReplyDeleteI did look at your poetry lit mag/blog out of curiosity, and you have a lot of typos there as well. Surely the poets you publish deserve a more carefully edited presentation.
more room to improve, thanks best,luck.
ReplyDeleteThe way I see it, I don't care that much about repetition because sometimes even jerks have good reps, once someone likes a poem of my enough to publish it in a important journal by then it will be deserved for me.
one thing that I hate is a poem that wasn't that good making it in the new yorker and maybe that poet had great english skill jet passion wasn't in the poem.
I'm not that greatest of a writers but I try and I can offer exposer to poets with my blog at best, with that I'll focus even more on my grammer .
A few earors
ReplyDeletejet should me yet
I'm not that greatest of (a take the a out) writers
that shout the
ReplyDeletethank you..
http://www.bloodmoonrisingmagazine.com/shortstory4614.html this is the 12th poem I have published in a magazine's and I'm happy the way it turned out.
ReplyDeleteyes A spell cheeked everything myself before sending out the poem but like I said I'm happy with way the words sounds and engery of my poem with little pause. poets play with words and poets make errors and poets decides to keep mistakes if those mistake create something amazing good then!.I have muse, and that my frends make me a better writer. dont try take magic out my poetry,it's alive and as good I like it.
but not writer I'm performer and poetry is beyond my rusty pen and dont ever hold back my truth. goodozog@gmail.com sales and gives poems