Twisted view of "perfect"
I know I save swearing for my other podcast, but sheesh, this is a pretty f’d up view of “perfect.”
“In a perfect world we would have read some part of the books before rejecting them.”
Dude, in a perfect world you accept everyone’s books and we all become bestsellers, there’s no poverty, and everyone gets a pony. There are no rejections in a perfect world.
Feeb.
(Of course, if we were all bestsellers, then who would we be besting? The mind boggles.)
About the Author: I am a writer and podcast producer, writing for magazines and RPGs. I am a wanna-be fiction writer with several short fiction, comic scripts, and one novel sale. Playing For Keeps will be out August, '08.
congolia | Jun 21, 2006 | Reply
The gentle sound of art and commerce crashing into each other.
Starbucks is always looking for “safe” art for their stores. If you look at their choice in music, you cannot be surprised.
They want “nice” non-offensive art, so people won’t get mad and realize they paid $4.75 for a coffee drink.
Mur, I wouldn’t mind occasional profanity. Feel free. You have earned it.
Missy | Jun 21, 2006 | Reply
Ridiculous! How can you know if the book is appropriate if they haven’t even decided “which type of books or genre they wanted to include.”
BTW I Love your blog!
Shawna | Jun 23, 2006 | Reply
And with all those wonderful books, there’d never be enough time to read them… and that isn’t MY idea of a perfect world.
Scott M. Sandridge | Jun 23, 2006 | Reply
You’d think they would’ve considered “which type of books or genre they wanted to include” before putting out a call to submissions.