SlushPile Hell

One grumpy literary agent, a sea of query fails, and other publishing nonsense.

Aug 29 2011

I hope you’ll represent my fictional novel.

To you and the other countless authors who refer to your books as “fictional novels,” will you please, for the love of all that’s holy and good in this world, stop it. Besides, I don’t represent fictional novels. I represent only poetic poetry, nonfictional true stories, how-to-cook-stuff cookbooks, and children’s books for children.


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    I’ve gotten queries/submissions with this, too. But what is worse: “fictional novel” or “true/nonfiction novel”? Yes,...
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    Yikes! Pet peeve of all pet peeves. Novel implies denotes fiction, you guys.
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    When I was but a lowly intern at a literary agency (ah, the good old days), I had the following exchange with an author:...
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