July 27th, 2011 / 11:35 am
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Dear Publishers, When you go around saying you are into “discovering new voices,” make sure you don’t really mean “discovering new people who write in the exact same voices we always publish.”

11 Comments

  1. July 27th, 2011 / 3:36 pm Anonymous—

      Good one!

  2. July 27th, 2011 / 3:48 pm seventydys—

      Multi-generational ventriloquialism and the primal hand in the first dummy has long since withered and died. In order to stand a chance of not being a dummy the writer’s eyes and ears must be alive and connected to the mouth by some form of intelligence.

  3. July 27th, 2011 / 4:51 pm Samuel Sargent—

      I’ve learned that if an author’s voice is boring, just start reading their work with a funny accent. It makes things ever so much better.

  4. July 27th, 2011 / 5:00 pm deadgod—

      If the publisher says “discovering” and not “publishing”, that’s sounds to me like a Clue.

  5. July 27th, 2011 / 5:56 pm Phil—

      Tried this with shteyngart. only works for 40 pages or so.

  6. July 27th, 2011 / 8:04 pm Eppie—

      A-B-C simple as 1-2-3. Send me something Blake.

  7. July 27th, 2011 / 9:38 pm postitbreakup—

      your posts have really been rockin lately, between the submissions list and those image collages and everything

  8. July 27th, 2011 / 10:01 pm Shannon—

      Yes.

  9. July 28th, 2011 / 5:07 am adrian—

      Shteyngart is the new Mark Leyner. Remember him? I didn’t think so.

  10. July 28th, 2011 / 7:45 am Blake Butler—

      uh ye ss leyner is tite

  11. July 28th, 2011 / 11:47 am Bradley Sands—

      Yes, I remember him.