Apr 11 2009
50 Hilarious Reasons No One Wants to Publish Your First Book
I recommend that you look at the entire list on Bookgasm, but here are some of the highlights.
8. The market for Iron Chef slash-fiction isn’t quite as broad as you may have assumed. “Oh, Morimoto,” Chef Batali sighed. “Stuff me like a pepper!”
31. There’s a fine line between writing authentic regional dialogue and making all of your characters sound like stroke victims.
32. Be thankful that they merely refused to publish it. After all, submitting a manuscript that ends with the protagonist realizing that it was just a dream (or was it?) usually causes the publisher to edit your face with a pair of brass knuckles.
36. God may have told you to write this book, but he apparently forgot to tell you how to give it a decent ending.
47. The entire point of your book has already been more satisfactorily made in a single strip of Family Circus.
