"There seems to be an assumption that I am a beginner at this industry while people who run Tumblrs are the experts. Somebody has that backwards."

"There seems to be an assumption that I am a beginner at this industry while people who run Tumblrs are the experts. Somebody has that backwards."

(via youngmanhattanite)

Well, I know Joe isn’t a beginner/is older than god/has been on the Internet since the dark ages, but getting a “no” from an editor and then “re-asking,” as he puts it, still strikes me as obnoxious—as is throwing the people nice enough to refer you to editors and agents under the bus just because you weren’t happy with the responses. And I don’t think having been around the block before makes him a publishing expert anymore than me having covered publishing for a year and been through the book sale process makes me one. I just don’t think pitching an agent or editor means either owes me something.

Source youngmanhattanite