Jun 14 2011
Contact Guidelines
I can be contacted here.
My favorite types of messages:
- Review requests. Send me your novel manuscript, comic book script, short story and/or query and I’ll offer some suggestions about how you might be able to improve it. I’ve also reviewed writing websites, marketing materials and comic book art.
- Any other questions related to writing and/or strengthening a novel manuscript, short story or comic book script.
- Business questions, like how to market your works more effectively or find a comic book artist.
- Job proposals–I’m available as a freelance editor, proofreader and/or author.
- Feedback and/or witty insults (please hold the forgettable ones–otherwise you’re wasting both of our time).
- Interesting links. If a link is somehow related to fiction writing and/or the publishing industry, I’m 99% likely to check it out.
Please do not send me any of the following:
- Anything related to movie and/or TV scripts. I’ve never worked in Hollywood and can’t help you there.
- Fan-fiction.
- Any stories with 3+ typos in the first paragraph. Sorry, but I only have time to read/review about half of the stories that come my way. I don’t have time for everyone, so I have to limit myself to the authors that are most serious about their craft. (If you’re not there yet, no worries–please submit again as soon as your manuscript is ready).
- Anything inspired in any way by Dragonball Z. (If you’re confident you’re a serious writer, you can send it anyway, but I will stop reading if there are more than 10+ typos per page. So far those stories are 0 for 5).
- Publishing requests. I can offer advice but not publishing deals.
- Any personal information that probably should not be shared with online strangers, such as your age/sex/location/medical issues/fondness for Dragonball Z, unless it’s really relevant to a question you have.
I am trying to get in touch with you to invite you do do an interview for my comics writing blog.
I talk to people who write comics, about writing comics.
Check out the first in my interview series at http://www.rapidcitycomic.com
If you are interested in being interviewed, please get in touch with me.
Thanks.
Josh
PS, I just love your blog. Very helpful.
Just out of curiosity what do you have against dragonball z
“Just out of curiosity, what do you have against Dragonball Z?”
I don’t enjoy DBZ-inspired stories very much and the grammar/punctuation/spelling/capitalization issues tend to be spectacular.
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If a DBZ-inspired writer is confident that he/she is a serious author, I would encourage him/her to send me the story anyway. I’ll review it, but only if it has fewer than 10 typos per page.* Otherwise, I’d have to politely decline based on my schedule.
*This is extremely lenient. I’d expect a credible novel manuscript to have fewer than 10 typos total. My cutoff is at least 300-400 times more lenient than professional-grade.