By Edward Nawotka
Today’s story discusses the launch of the beta site Pubmission.com, which promises to streamline the process for submitting unagented manuscripts to publishers. In turn, Pubmission promises to relieve editors’ burden of dealing with the slush pile.
Anyone working in publishing is likely to have heard hundreds of bad book ideas. The new blog SlushPile Hell, written by an anonymous agent, does a good job of sending up some of the more outrageous queries and proposals. Of course, it should come as no surprise that even ideas that might sound terrible to you (as this book did to me) still manage to find a publisher and an audience.
So, tell us, what is the worst book idea you’ve ever heard?
Unagented Writer? Editor Drowning in Slush? Pubmission.com Promises to Help
1 year ago
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Rob
1 year ago
I heard about a proposal that was doing the rounds of London publishers a couple of years ago. It was about the holocaust, from the point of view of an otter.
Sarah
1 year ago
I work in sales but hear a lot of pitches at book fairs anyway. The worst I ever heard was a cookbook written in the style of a business text book, flow charts and all. A close second would be The Dracula Cookbook.
Tracy Lucas
1 year ago
I know of a book which did make the shelves which depicts the same time period from the point of view of a mouse. Wasn’t that one, was it? Actually, it looked quite interesting to me… I suppose a lot depends on the idea’s execution.
Stephen King’s _Carrie_ sounds like a really stupid idea for an adult novel at face value, but I bet the checks spend just as easily.