Unfortunately, due to the enormous volume of material sent in to our Children's department, Bloomsbury can no longer accept unsolicited children's manuscripts.
What does that lot mean, it's from the bloomsbury website, can someone please tell me what it means? 10 points for the best answer!!!
2007-07-30 22:10:55 · 13 answers · asked by Jack W 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Bloomsburys is swamped with would be writers sending in their manuscripts, out of the blue. So don't send us anymore unless we ask you to.
2007-07-30 22:14:26 · answer #1 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Submissions that were not requested get thrown into an editor's slush pile- where all the other unsolicited proposals go. Usually the last thing on an editor's list of things to do is rummage through that humongous slush pile. What you need to do to have a chance is: get in contact with an editor, be it by email or phone, or face to face. Then, if your question of, "can I send you my proposal?" is accepted, your submission becomes solicited. You send your package, labeled "Requested Submission." In the book I'm reading, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel," the author says, "Don't be surprised if you never hear back from most editors. Reading the solicitations is considered the least important part of an editor's job. Wait at least four months before you follow up. . . . . . . . . . Its much easier to email the editor [than call], who can then respond when the time is available to grab your proposal and give it another look."
2007-07-31 05:40:04 · answer #2 · answered by Mary 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bloomsbury does not accept unsolicited manuscripts - this means they only accept work by an author who has either been reccomended to them, or has an agent. If you are wanting to publish something, I suggest trying other publishers unless you are willing to fork out loads for an agent - which, unless you have enough money, is a bit worthless.
2007-07-31 05:15:35 · answer #3 · answered by eggz 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
it means they can't look at a childrens book unless it was submitted by a person with an agent, I saw that too. Its probably because of harry potter bloomsbury gets lots of childrens books.
2007-07-31 05:18:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means that Bloomsbury Publishers are not accepting manuscripts from people they don't already know. If they haven't asked you to send a manuscript, or story, then don't bother sending it to them, they'll just send it back unread.
2007-07-31 05:19:29 · answer #5 · answered by xanjo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You quesiton has already been answerd, so I suggest you find an agent or somewhere else as they is little moeny to be made in children's books, HP was different but it doesn't often happen. You should get the writ'ers handbook 2007 and the writers and Arists yearbook 2007 for info.
2007-07-31 05:21:09 · answer #6 · answered by jadealiesha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It mean that they get to many manuscript from wannabe writers that dont have an agent. Thus they only considdering manuscript from people with agents. In that way they hope to reduce the amount of manuscripts that they want publish anyway. Get an agent and send you manuscript through them... Johan
2007-07-31 05:38:45 · answer #7 · answered by Johan from Sweden 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone else has interpreted it for you, but I must just add: eggz isn't quite right about literary agents. You don't pay them. They work for a percentage - 10%, or increasingly 15% - of whatever they earn for you. If they can't sell your book, you don't owe them anything. It's worth sending your work around agents at the same time as you're sending it around publishers. See who bites first, if anyone. Warning: you'll need a *lot* of patience...
2007-07-31 05:21:27 · answer #8 · answered by Colin G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After the success of Harry Potter they have been swamped with unsolicited manuscripts, most of them utter rubbish.
2007-07-31 05:16:17 · answer #9 · answered by los 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically, it means that they get sent so much stuff, they are not taking anything sent in on spec. If they haven't asked u for it, don't send it.Hope this helps.
2007-07-31 05:15:18 · answer #10 · answered by SKCave 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋