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Fuck Joe Clark and the Submission He Rode In On

fek:

Joe Clark should be the last straw. Agencies and publishing houses across the board should institute a draconian policy for this kind of assholery: nobody, anywhere will accept unsolicited submissions, and together, nobody, anywhere will ever respond to an unsolicited submission ever again.

Anybody so presumptuous as to think that any editor owes them anything for something sent to them without solicitation should be ceremoniously beaten unconscious with the manuscript they sent in, this motherfucker especially. You want a courtesy? Someone might publish your book and pay you for it. That’s a courtesy. Otherwise, the publishing industry doesn’t give a shit about you and your list, Joe Clark, other than as a shining example of the kind of person who will never get anything published, and maybe, also, for the amusement of seeing who sucks enough to dignify your cantankerous bullshit.

If you can’t respond to people who send you something, you’re either:

a) Convinced that you’re above needing to respond to The Great Unwashed (as the rest of the above-excerpted post makes clear the author feels)

b) Actually too big to be able to respond.

My guess is that a very small percentage of publishers fall into category B but most of them like to think that they are.

From all I’ve heard, the world of publishing is filled with enough divas to rival Broadway.

Which isn’t to say there aren’t decent, hardworking people in publishing or on Broadway, but this post by “Fek” strikes me a shining example of the publishing world’s worst side:

“We know about anything worth knowing about, so if we don’t contact you, don’t bother contacting us.”

What Joe is asking for would be considered common courtesy in the rest of the world. Fek responds “Fuck you Joe.”

Which illustrates exactly why Joe is making the list.

I fully expect most of publishing world to follow the RIAA and MPAA down the drainpipe of history, with a few exceptions of those who are willing to work and adapt to the changing world.