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Usage examples of editors.

If you have done the marketing research discussed earlier in this chapter, you know the magazines you are aiming for, their audiences and their editors, as well as an agent would.

Previous editors spent their days in the office, laying out material and collecting proofs.

Over the past few years, several editors have told me that they are longing to see hard-core science fiction stories.

The story has been widely anthologized, which means that many editors have liked it, and many readers have seen it.

Think of the vast teams of news reporters, camera persons, editors, producers, publishers, even golfers, the whole vast panoply of men and women who have dedicated their lives to bringing the latest crisis into the homes of every human being on this planetwith nothing more to do than report on sports and weather!

There have been so many gimmick stories in science fiction that both readers and editors have become very critical of them.

That does not mean that the junior editor who first takes up your story lacks knowledge or enthusiasm, merely that the first reader in most publishing houses is the low person on the totem pole, without the experience or the clout to convince the more senior editors to take a gamble on something really new and different.

Book publishers hire editors to direct the different lines they publish.

Yes, an agent may know the editors personally, but that is not as big a help as you may think.

Do not expect editors to mail your manuscript back to you out of their own funds.

As a writer you are always putting your guts on paper, allowing editors, critics and readers to take free kicks at you.

Why, I doubt that even the editors of a genre magazine would publish such drivel!

The only reason we won in Iowa is that I put the two Peace Democrat editors in Fort Lafayette for seditious agitation.

Indeed, a good many editors seemed to think of themselves, primarily, as preachers, crying aloud to a godless world to repent of its manifold sins.

Horace Greeley used to advise the country editors to give small space to the general news of the world, but to cultivate assiduously the home field, to glean every possible detail of private life in the circuit of the county, and print it.