[stylist] art of getting published.

[helene ryles]

Lori, Thanks for your advice on this matter. Will the publishers
expect a print letter? All my communication with the outside world is
on the internet now using email. People read my print mail to me
anyway, although it's mostly junk.
I don't have a printer. I used to use my dad's printer but the version
of Zoomtext on his computer is one of the older ones. The Magification
doesn't go large enough for me anymore.  (With this computer I use
Zoom x20 and my braille display intermitantly). So I'll either have to
update Zoom for my dad's computer or buy my own printer although I'm
running out of space here.

I'm still going over the book but when that's over with I'll sort out
publishers and agents to send it to.

Helene

On 02/11/2009, LoriStay at aol.com <LoriStay at aol.com> wrote:
> I attended a poets' reading at our "coffee house" (At the library) today.
> Most people, good writers or not are concerned about rejection letters.
> What makes it worthwhile is that on occasion the letter is NOT a rejection.
>
> But if you never send out, you'll never know.   I have a theory that all
> writers should ask a family member to screen letters from publishers, and
> just
> pitch the rejections in the trash pile.   It would certainly make sending
> out easier.   And you'd know if you hadn't been accepted because there would
> be silence at the end of that trail.   But you'd also get the good stuff.
>
> We had some very good poets, as well as two men who had written songs and
> sang them for us.   The poets are so afraid of rejection they've been
> sitting
> on their work for years--decades.   And the poems were great.   We need to
> restructure the publishing field in the U.S.!   (I can't speak for the U.K.)
> Lori
>
>