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Press File 54 LOGOS 16/1 © WHURR PUBLISHERS 2005 What should we say to friends who have written books and who touchingly believe that we can advise them on how they can get published? Since one always wishes to send one’s friends messages of h o p e , I p u n c t i l i o u s l y g i v e t h e m t h e n a m e s o f publishers who publish their kinds of books and advise them to send a 200-word synopsis, a list of contents, a biographical note and two specimen chapters. To spare their feelings I do not mention that their chances of acceptance are infinitesimal. But I do suggest they include return envelopes and warn them that “publishing is a rough old game”. Road-blocking entry to the overcrowded market- place are thousands of snowed-under editors most o f w h o m d o n o t h a v e t h e t i m e e v e n t o m a k e reasoned rejections of unsolicited manuscripts. The least responsive sector of publishing is fiction. “Brace yourselves,” http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

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Brill
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© 2005 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0957-9656
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1878-4712
DOI
10.2959/logo.2005.16.1.54
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54 LOGOS 16/1 © WHURR PUBLISHERS 2005 What should we say to friends who have written books and who touchingly believe that we can advise them on how they can get published? Since one always wishes to send one’s friends messages of h o p e , I p u n c t i l i o u s l y g i v e t h e m t h e n a m e s o f publishers who publish their kinds of books and advise them to send a 200-word synopsis, a list of contents, a biographical note and two specimen chapters. To spare their feelings I do not mention that their chances of acceptance are infinitesimal. But I do suggest they include return envelopes and warn them that “publishing is a rough old game”. Road-blocking entry to the overcrowded market- place are thousands of snowed-under editors most o f w h o m d o n o t h a v e t h e t i m e e v e n t o m a k e reasoned rejections of unsolicited manuscripts. The least responsive sector of publishing is fiction. “Brace yourselves,”

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Logos – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2005

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