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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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Subject: Re: Potpourri
Message-ID: <5883@duke.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-May-85 12:24:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 31 12:24:24 1985
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Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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In article <2138@topaz.ARPA> lah%ucbmiro@Berkeley writes:
>From: lah%ucbmiro@Berkeley (First Lieutenant Leigh Ann Hussey)
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>Re: Publisher & Editor Reviews...
>>(Note that for a novel, you should send a query with an outline and
>>sample chapters, *not* the whole novel.  You don't even need to have
>>the novel finished.)
>
>Sorry, but that's a bad piece of advice.  I only hope that you haven't taken
>it already and suffered an unnecessary rejection.  When you have five books 
>or so out, then you can start thinking about sending outlines.  Most of the
>writers I know, however, sent their first novels complete.  ....

At the Editor's panel at Disclave last weekend, the editors all agreed
that they would consider an outline *first*, over a complete manuscript,
and that they by far prefer to see outlines over manuscripts.

Now, if you are a new writer, the response to your outline may be
"sounds good, can I see the whole manuscript when it is available?"

For some non-obvious reason, I forgot to put the editors's names into my
notebook, but they were from several big name companies like Berkely.
-- 

			Charlie Martin
			(...mcnc!duke!crm)