Ten Reasons Star Wars is Better Than Star Trek?
Just found this list and boy is that a kick in the butt for Trek fans. Number 10 is especially painful. I think I’d like to add to the list the following: Star Trek doesn’t have Wookies. Nobody in Star Wars has contracted every STD known to man for sleeping with every green, blue, purple, and tentacled alien woman… Yeah, I’m not that funny… (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)
SBS Mag: We’re Officially Public and Open For All Submissions!
SBS Magazine is now a public magazine. What that means is we are open to submissions from anyone, provided it follows the guidelines. Check out the website here for more information. With the magazine being public, that means anyone reading this blog is more than welcome to submit (again, if you meet guidelines)! Feel free to spread the word about us too! We’d like this to be a successful project with a regular publication schedule (biannual would be nice). We’re shooting to have our first issue out come this December. And yes, it will make a great Christmas gift! If you have questions you can email me, or send an email to the email provided at SBS. Anywho! (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)
Jane Austen Rejected and What It Says About the Industry
This is a bit old, but it really caught my attention. Apparently this guy (David Lassman) decided to see if some of the big publishers would recognize Jane Austen’s writing if it was submitted to them, and if they’d accept it. What surprises me isn’t that Austen was rejected–I sort of expected that considering her style is a big antiquated–but that most of the publishers didn’t even recognize the writing, including one publisher who has been printing Austen’s works in new editions and the like. I was also surprised that this guy wasn’t brought up on charges of plagiarism, but that’s not really what matters.It’s scary in a lot of ways. These are publishers bringing us new authors, supposedly representing the great literature of today, yet they didn’t notice Jane Austen or even have a little suspicion about it? Perhaps most of them didn’t read it, and, in fact, one of the publishers admitted that they probably hadn’t read it before rejecting it out of hand. But for those that did read it, how could they say the writing was good and reject it and not be aware that it isn’t original writing?And what does this say about the industry? It likely suggests that publishers are so swamped with garbage that they’ve gotten to a point where they can’t give manuscripts the attention they deserve anymore, especially good ones. It confirms my suspicions that one might actually need an agent in this business to get anywhere with some of these publishing houses, because if they aren’t reading manuscripts that might be the only way to get out of the slush. But some of these publishers have rules regarding unsolicited submissions, so are they overloaded with solicited submissions then? Or have they become bored with the writing of today and perhaps take two seconds to look at the cover letter before simply rejecting something?What do you think about this?