Ten tips guaranteed to get MS looked at

[MsFish]

Well, that's part of the mystery of the book.  But yeah, because it's things she's done.

[Faster Master St. Pastor]

Interesting...

[MsFish]

Lol.  Let's hope the editor thinks so.  The last one aparently didn't.  

[Faster Master St. Pastor]

That or he did and decided to plagerize it to make himself famous.

Better luck next time.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

I'm not impressed with companies who don't promise a response at all.

That's the policy here, too... Umm...

[stacer]

I heard about that--the policy started while I was working there. I don't know which is worse for beginning authors, never hearing back at all from a place that won't answer unless they want to publish it, or a company not taking unsolicited mss at all.

That's one thing that I love about my job. For the ones that have promise, I still have the leeway to give feedback (though I've been running out of time lately to do so)--we're encouraged to help develop new writers, because that's a lot of who we publish.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Well, no company that doesn't promise a response deserves non-simultaneous submissions, so that at least is one thing that makes things easier for the author... I still feel really bad about what happened when Dan submitted his book though.