Tuesday, May 8, 2007
The New Yorker
I have always considered a submission to TNY as a waste of time, but one day I decided to try. I followed the guidelines to the letter. Guess what? A month or so later the acknowledgment e-mail arrived: TNY has deleted my sub without reading it. I inquired. The reply? Drum roll! They sent me the guidelines again. Apparently, the subs to TNY are read by a robot.
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Read by a robot you say? How strange.
I can only imgine you felt as i did when reading the guidline for your magazine, totally fusterated. I am a children's writer and I am an artist. True children's work is not "preachy" nor should it be lumped next to generes such as "syrupy romances". We children's writers destain moral works and we are not all interested in writing the next Harry Potter fanasty rip-off. True children's writers create works that are dark, artful, simple, and freshly real. It's fine if you do not want to publish children's work as a magazine, but please do not roboticly shove us into the transparent empty generes. We are artists as well and we deserve fellow respect. Thank You, El
Sorry to offend you. They are not lumped together, but posted sequentially to indicate what stories we dislike.
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