A Rant
WHY CAN'T PEOPLE READ OUR SUBMISSION GUIDELINES BEFORE QUERYING? WHY WHY?
Our guidelines are basically a paragraph long! If you can't be bothered to read a paragraph, or pull up our website and take the 10 minutes it would take to see what it is that we publish, just don't query us. Really, I'm not kidding. Sending mass queries to agents and publishers is not resourceful, its not cool, and generally its a huge goddamn waste of everyone's time.
To be clear: we don't publsih ANY genre fiction. No women's, westerns, adventure, thriller, children's, poetry, or non-fiction. If your novel is a brilliant amalgamation of three different genres, we don't care. We won't publish it. All we publish are works of serious literary fiction with a pop edge that fall in-between the worlds of commercial and experimental publishing-- in style as well as subject matter. That's it.
If you can see your work being published by Random House, we're not the right place for you. In turn, if you can see your novel being published by FC2, we're not the right place for you either. Impetus is a publishing house dedicated to giving those writers who fall into the gray area between the experimental and commercial a place to be heard. So, take the freakin' 10 minutes it takes to read our submisson policies before clogging our inbox--I beg of you.
You'll not only save our time--but your own.
1 comment:
I submitted a query to you. Your response: We don't publish thrillers, for the sole reason that the word "thriller" is used in one of the reviews. Didn't get a sense you actual read the piece.
In my view, not publishing genre fiction is pretty closed-minded. There is no genre writing, only bad writing. Philip K. Dick wrote science fiction, but he's one of America's best writers. Are you saying "works of serious literary fiction" can't have elements of a thriller, science fiction, or something else? Pretty unadventurous. Not to mention "literary fiction" is a genre in itself.
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