Subject: RE: Grey Days
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Thu May 01 1997 - 16:01:31 GMT
if you have to write em, make em brief, very brief...I'm the poetry editor
of _War, Lit and the Arts_ and I can tell you that I've never published
something because of a cover letter but I have read with a negative spin
because of cover letters...will
On Thu, 1 May 1997 Matthew_Stevenson@BAYLOR.EDU wrote:
> hey all-
>
> i was wondering if any of you writers, pro, semi-pro, struggling amateur, would
> have any advice on cover letters to submissions. i mean, what's the general
> method you should use in approaching this sort of thing--out and out begging?
> any input would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
>
> obsalinger: i still don't think muriel drove seymour to suicide. if anyone in
> bananafish drove him to it, i would say sybil did. she shatters the ideal of
> childhood seymour has built up. at worst i think muriel simply wasn't enough to
> make him not do it.
>
> to steal a phrase,
> death is not the end (*wink* malc),
>
> matt
>
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