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Many publishing houses receive literally thousands of unsolicited manuscripts through the mail every year, and experience has convinced most of them that nothing promising ever arrives “over-the-transom.”
How do I get an editor or a literacy agent? « Literacy « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2009
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To make that possible, I need a really wide net, and a mix of both solicited and over-the-transom submissions in the catch.
MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 2) 2009
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Agents help, though some houses will look at over-the-transom material.
Young Writer's Query Steve Perry 2010
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There are some publishers who will still take over-the-transom i.e., unagented and unsolicited submissions.
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Agents help, though some houses will look at over-the-transom material.
Archive 2010-02-01 Steve Perry 2010
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Finally, although they're grabbing other people's stuff without prior permission, they throw up all this officious text about "We do not publish unsolicited or over-the-transom submissions" and "We reserve the right to edit the posts we publish in Voices, but all legal responsibility for their content rests solely with their authors."
Attribution and Affiliation on All Things Digital - Waxy.org 2009
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The NYRB is exonerated if it in fact received no submissions from women (unlikely); but more egregious if these numbers were largely the result of solicitation rather than over-the-transom submissions (true for many higher-end journals).
Numbers Trouble : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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I also suggested that the Gates Foundation hire a diverse group of what Disney calls "Imagineers" to screen these odd over-the-transom communications for a kernel of an idea they could invest in.
Richard Walden: A Note to Bill Gates, Oprah, Madonna: size isn't everything! 2009
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Most over-the-transom submissions we get are quickly rejected because it's clear the writer hasn't a clue about what we've published in the past.
Got Pith? Roger Sutton 2007
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Online video companies are hungry for more professional material than what typically arrives in over-the-transom videos.
Web Sites Cast a Net 2007
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