If your editor has bribed her friend Bonnie worked really hard to come up with a super-cool anthology title, and then promoted said anthology all over the place, you might want to get the name of it right when you submit to it.
Just sayin’.
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How to make your editor happy – Tip #2
Posted By laurie on February 13th, 2008
Save your submission as a separate attachment. A Word .doc is good. So is an .rtf file.
Most email programs will not let you send a 20,000-word submission as an email. It’ll get cut off and then your editor can’t read it. And you don’t want that…
How to make your editor happy – Tip #1
Posted By laurie on February 12th, 2008
Leave her off your send-this-chain-letter-to-everyone-in-your-address-book list.
Especially if the only correspondence you’ve had with your editor is a form rejection letter.
Really. Do you know how long I spent training my mom out of including me on these kinds of emails? And she gets special privileges ‘cuz of the whole giving birth to me thing. So, thank you, but Bill Gates isn’t sending me money, I’m not going to let some guy dressed up as an old lady into my backseat, and I always check under my car at the gas station for knife-wielding robbers. So, I’m all good on that respect.
