tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25573541.post115992089015153508..comments2023-07-01T07:31:28.450-06:00Comments on LDS Publisher: Simultaneous SubmissionsLDS_Publisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15053645600240124892noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25573541.post-1159996486856540042006-10-04T15:14:00.000-06:002006-10-04T15:14:00.000-06:00NO!No!No! I wasn't suggesting that you send simult...<B>NO!No!No!</B> I wasn't suggesting that you send simultaneous submissions to publishers who said they would not accept them. <I>NEVER</I> do that! <I>ALWAYS</I> follow their rules!<BR/><BR/>What I meant was, if you decide to only submit to those publishers who accept simultaneous submissions, tell them that it is a simultaneous submission (if it is) and then tell them if/when you accept an offer. <BR/><BR/>I am rewording the post to make that more clear.LDS_Publisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15053645600240124892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25573541.post-1159989039015538602006-10-04T13:10:00.000-06:002006-10-04T13:10:00.000-06:00I am very pro simultaneous submissions, but I'd be...I am very pro simultaneous submissions, but I'd be careful with the publishers who explicitly post that they don't accept simultaneous submissions. If you send your manuscript to such a publisher and note in the query that it is a simultaneous submission, I would guess that your query/synopsis/partial/manuscript (or whatever you sent) won't even get read. They stated the rules and you didn't follow them, and the publisher has lots of other query letters to read. Perhaps this sort of rigidity is not the norm in the LDS market, but from everything I've learned it is the norm in the national industry. Editors/agents WANT you to give them an easy reason to reject your work. Not following their directions are usually a big pet peeve (Miss Snark immediately trashes your query if you don't enclose a SASE because the directions to enclose one are on her website).<BR/><BR/>So I'll take a different stance than LDS Publisher and suggest that if you are going to submit simultaneously to a publisher who said NOT to, that you don't mention it. <BR/><BR/>Or that you take a chance on waiting - I chose Covenant as the publisher I wanted to work with and they state that they don't want simultaneous submissions, so I submitted it only to them, waited and got lucky. :)Sariah Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06606312014221875944noreply@blogger.com