Nick Mamatas, one of our Five Easy Question alums, had a piece of simple, sober, and CAPITALIZED advice for fledgling writers. You should print this out and paste it on your computer before you ever email an editor again:
"[I]f you write me back after I send you a rejection slip to tell me that my rejection is wrong, you're banned, forever. There is some allowance for naivete, but people with tons of pubs should know better than to try to bully an editor. Especially when it says not to, specifically, in the guidelines."
Secondly, Christa Faust, another graduate of the Five Easy Questions Correspondence School, linked to the amazing Postmodern Pulp issue of the Mississippi Review (which includes, quite coincidentally, a Mamatas story), finding us a new writer in the process:
"I just stumbled across a short story that I couldn’t help but read. Anything with the word “kayfabe” in the title makes me curious. I’ve never read anything else by Ray Banks, but you better believe I will now. So go read "The Last Kayfabe." I’ll wait."
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