Recent Posts
I have a proposal that was sent on 9/26/2006 about mystical languages? I know that's right on the edge of the material that's already been looked at, so should I just sit tight for everyone to come back from the holidays or get worried?
I don't think that one came to me, so you'll need to wait to hear from Jason about it. He's gone through his stack of queries and we're going to try to have a meeting about them in the next couple weeks. Cross your fingers and eyes!
it was Jason, looking for something specific in a hurry. :) i'd imagine he hasn't really gotten through to responding to the bulk of the queries yet, but saw something in my query that he needed at just the right moment.
so, hopefully that's a good sign that more responses are coming before long. :)
now, i've got a short deadline so i don't have a lot of time to sit here talking. ;) heheh
it was Jason, looking for something specific in a hurry.
What's funny is that something similar happened to me lately as well, the getting asked to write something on somewhat short notice I mean. Was a cool topic, I didn't say no.
But hopefully your particular instance means some movement into the query backlog here soon. *thumb twiddle of evil*
That is interesting; I made some submissions last march and haven’t heard a word since. Should I give up hope, try a chaser, or just draft up a new query to hit the next round? (I’ll admit I don’t think my actual Submission could have been less professional last time. To my chagrin.)
Does any one know the etiquette on resubmitting queries very similar to one another? Say if between the first submission and second the concept of a race you were querying over had changed rather drastically?)
If you sent a submission back in March, I'd say it's totally normal not to hear a word about it by this time. I never heard word back about the one feature I had in the magazine until the contract arrived.
If, however, you sent a query last March, then I suspect you need to drop an e-mail to the editors to follow up, because you should've heard back on that by now.
So Zherog as an old pro mind if I ask a few questions? This was my first attempt at publication you see. When I send my Chaser Email would this be the time to add in some other Queries I have since thought of? And should I modify the description of the Race I was querying over to account for its evolution in my head since March?
(These questions open to all, any kindly Editor who wants to give me something from the horses mouth would be apreciated).
Surround the table with square brackets and all caps that read BEGIN TABLE or END TABLE as necessary.
Tab once between each column. Don't try to line the columns up on the page.
That's what I do, anyway.
-Amber S.
Yup. Amber does it right.
For the love of all that is good and holy, never ever ever include an actual table (using Word's table function). Those are unnecessary pains.
Do excel files work better or worse? If I merge my excel into a document does it cause unnecessary pains?
As Zherog says, that would be a pain. You can copy the information out of Excel and paste it into Word using the Paste Special: No Formatting command and that would make a good and appropriate table. I do that sometimes myself. :)
But don't make us do that to your document for you, because that's just one more reason to reject the whole thing. And you never want to give editors more reasons to reject your work.
Last Post Errata: - Bah, too late to edit -
Mike, I happen to know I've added a table to one of the Class Acts you've confirmed you've recieved. Do you want me to resend them unformatted, or just let you go through the pain this one time?
Don't worry about it. In the future don't do that, but for now it's not a big deal. I can't hold against you something you didn't know. :)