Agents/publishers anyone?

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I wish that I was as precise in the English as you are Chancellor. I just don't have the temperament nor the patience for it. I still can't remember all the rules on using a comma after having studied many times.

I locked myself in the alley while taking care of my daughter's store last week. That has to be some kind of indication that I'm just not up to par.

I don't think the rules of composition have changed much, but the rules of the marketability of the product have. The publishers are less likely to accept good writing than they are "proven", marketable, story lines.

They don't mind using their editors, they just want the agents to do the filtering. That's why its so very hard to get someone else to do the printing. Self-publishing is growing by leaps and bounds.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Richard Perry

I don't think the rules of composition have changed much, but the rules of the marketability of the product have. The publishers are less likely to accept good writing than they are "proven", marketable, story lines.

They don't mind using their editors, they just want the agents to do the filtering. That's why its so very hard to get someone else to do the printing. Self-publishing is growing by leaps and bounds.

Yes it is! I think it's great! Good luck to you!

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I wish that I was as precise in the English as you are Chancellor. I just don't have the temperament nor the patience for it.

Besides having a natural affinity for it, I've had to do it in all of my jobs after high school way back in 1981.

I still can't remember all the rules on using a comma after having studied many times.

That's what reference books are for.

I locked myself in the alley while taking care of my daughter's store last week. That has to be some kind of indication that I'm just not up to par.

I'll leave that one alone.