Lesbian Fiction ForumI've recently been turned onto the blog of Miss Snark, literary agent. Concealing her identity via this pseudonym, Miss Snark is able to tell truths normally reserved for those with enough money to survive litigation.
I don't like Writer's Digest. I got a one year subscription because, well, it was almost a rite of passage. Not all rites are pain free. Miss Snark reveals her thoughts behind a contest WD is holding.
It's not quite bait and switch cause they'll probably do exactly what they say. But if you have dreams of Binky Urban or Esther Newberg taking you to lunch at Michael's and signing you to a multi book deal, you're clearly cut out to be a novelist cause you have a great imagination.
It's probably not a scam in the true sense of what a scam is: what it is, is bunk.
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last modified: 02/06/06 15:05
Gee, is this what it takes to have a high-power blog (Snark's, not yours–sorry Paula)–hide behind a pseudonym and take potshots, sniping at something about which you obviously know nothing? Writer's Edge just finished its first contest. Also its last contest. Would that it were as simple as opening envelopes and throwing away the contents. You have to READ the entries in order to be able to JUDGE them and finally CHOOSE the winner(s). That's not the end of the work, either. There's still notifying the winner(s), announcing the results via various media and means, and in my case, boxing up the prizes (books), lugging them to the sending facility, and filling out forms. Not to mention the bookkeeping for the financial aspects of the entire process. That started long before the contest was announced.
Oh, and you don't need money to tell truths. Litigation appears when you lie.
— submitted 2/8/2006 @ 12:35 pm