The grumpy agent who writes the blog SlushPile Hell received a submission stating, “I have attached a copy of a letter I recently sent to Oprah about my book. She ends her show in September 2011, which leaves little time to select an agent.” The agent responds, “Finally! An author who understands the importance of Oprah and has a no-fail plan for getting on her show.” As if. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Pithy Response from Slushpile Hell”
Grant, here’s another one from the slush pile from hell.
Ooh, deep tell.
From that blog by the literary agent. He mentions that somebody wrote to him and said, I have attached a copy of a letter I recently sent to Oprah about my book. She ends her show in September 2011, which leaves little time to select an agent.
And he writes back, finally, an author who understands the importance of Oprah and has a no-fail plan for getting on her show. Love the snark.
It’s optimistic beyond all reason, right? Yeah, but, you know. I’m going to get an agent, therefore I will be on Oprah before the show closes.
And we have to, yeah, we have to do it right away.
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Bye.
