The Rauch Motel » How to make your editor happy http://www.therauchmotel.com You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:07:38 +0000 en hourly 1 How to make your editor happy – Tip #3 http://www.therauchmotel.com/2008/05/27/how-to-make-your-editor-happy-tip-3/ http://www.therauchmotel.com/2008/05/27/how-to-make-your-editor-happy-tip-3/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 03:45:55 +0000 laurie http://grammargeek.wordpress.com/?p=191 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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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…

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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.

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