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Editorial Anonymous' anecdotes are mostly true. Names of authors, illustrators, editors, agents, publishers, manuscripts, and a few random nouns have been changed to protect her ass. Slush Monster courtesy Melinda Beavers. www.melindabeavers.com
August Order of the Monster of Slush
a blog of a children's book editor
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But seriously, don't try to query me or submit to me. I'm anonymous.
If you submit to me or query me at this email address, I will use your letter/submission on the blog. Be warned.
But seriously, don't try to query me or submit to me. I'm anonymous.
If you submit to me or query me at this email address, I will use your letter/submission on the blog. Be warned.
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Editorial Anonymous' anecdotes are mostly true. Names of authors, illustrators, editors, agents, publishers, manuscripts, and a few random nouns have been changed to protect her ass. Slush Monster courtesy Melinda Beavers. www.melindabeavers.com
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August Order of the Monster of Slush
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Things Not To Send in Slush Ever Again
- flashlights
- shoe shine kits
- dead bugs
- photos of you
- photos of you dressed in formalwear
- photos of you dressed in your Halloween costume
- photos of you not dressed
- glitter
- confetti
- glitter confetti (I'm serious)
- dolls, handmade or otherwise
- dolls, especially not santa dinos
- tea, coffee, hot chocolate
- seed packets
- money
- dental x-rays
- farting handpuppets (mini whoopee cushion)
- woolen stockings full of jellybeans
- crates of tangerines
- contraceptives
- fake contraceptives
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- copyright (3)
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- first lines contest (17)
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- how to tell you're never going to get published (26)
- I'm So Going to Hell (2)
- illustration (27)
- intellectual property (7)
- links (53)
- marketing (3)
- marketing and publicity (3)
- pitch contest (17)
- poetry (9)
- publisher rep guest blogs (1)
- publishing dictionary (25)
- publishing myths contest (3)
- queries (27)
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- rejections (6)
- revision (7)
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- slush and punishment (31)
- slush monster (8)
- submissions (106)
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- The 8 Rules of Rejections (1)
- the bookshelf at the top of this blog (4)
- the industry (58)
- The Kitchen Full of Slush (6)
- the publishing process (17)
- translations (4)
- trends (6)
- what's it like to be an editor? (14)
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11 comments:
LOL -- Mine too; however, I believe I'd reverse the order.
I know Word lets you hold down the Alt key and press the minus sign on the numeric keypad, but for blogger...
Hold down the Alt key and type 196. When you let go of the Alt key you should see a dash (but not an emdash) slightly larger than a hyphen.
─ dash
- hyphen
Love that "too special" one!
How about "too sophisticated."
and... There are 500 stories in here. Pick one and run with it, fool!!
Yikes!! How did this get here when I was in the 'editor speak.' Please delete and move cuz i can't. Grrr. Thanks!!
Sorry, in Word it's hold down Ctrl and press the numeric keypad minus sign (not Alt).
And when you type '196' is must be on the numeric keypad.
Em dashes are spectacular. Semi-colons, on the other hand, don't do a thing for me. Ellipses--now those are truly loveable...
Shelly
Semi-colons scare me. I know it is an irrational fear but they do nonetheless. I am always afraid I will misuse them so I just avoid them and phrase things differently.
I've done way to much typography to care about dashes anymore(I'm sorry but it is true),but dots(some people call them ellipses) are the new pink for me....
BTW, that is nice code above for dashes.
Anyone know a code for moving responses to where they really should be?
You can also use the — HTML entity, like this—see?
I'm so glad to hear an editor say they love semicolons. I am getting tired of having them yanked out of all my manuscripts.
I'm pretty sure Blogger will let you use the HTML character entity for an em dash—it's ampersand pound 8212 semicolon.
I added it to the sentence above; if it worked, you should see an em dash.
There are all sorts of other neat character entities here. Just in case you ever need to use a ™, a ç, or an œ ligature in Blogger. :-)
MJ—it worked! That's fabulous!
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