This is a quick entry as I get ready to head to Florida with the family for a week. Gerard has been forwarding stories in the final stages of consideration to me and, after reading about 20 of them, I can’t help but share the following, general thought.If you are submitting to a magazine, a book publisher, or online publication, wouldn’t you, oh, I don’t know, PROOFREAD YOUR WORK FIRST? Honest to Heloise, campers, you’d be floored by how many stories are just riddled with typos, spelling, and grammatical errors. And I don’t even mean little boo-boos, but big ol’ mistakes that a simple read-through should have caught. I’ve rejected at least two stories that were right on the bubble of being accepted, simply because the authors apparently didn’t care enough to proof their work before submitting. Why should I choose their work over the many others who bothered to both craft a great story and make sure it is error-free? Hell, one guy had to type his story in prison, and HE bothered to submit a flawless manuscript. If he can find time between breaking rocks to proofread, then why can’t others?
That’s it for now. Hope y’all have a happy first week of November!
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