Great quote

[mcmacin]

I saw this today and thought it would stir some thought.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner

[TanyaSue]

LOL. :D That's funny!

[jacks girl]

Hey I'll remember and not send any envelope.

LOL

[righter1]

Terrific quote. Maybe we should send a postcard instead?

One book I read (I want to say it was "How I Write" by Janet Evanovich) suggested that you do that, and have 2 or three check boxes on it--I.E.: Not Interested; Please submit full manuscript; etc. It saves you money on postage, and, may give you an answer more quickly. Then, they can just use you MS for scratch paper or to line their birdcages :D or to give to another editor that may read your work and think you're brilliant and give you a call. :)

[dulcigal]

Ah, but then you don't get to get those wonderful form rejection letters!

Honestly, with the postage jacking up again, I was considering just sending small SASEs anyway, but I've also read that marking a MS as disposable also gives bad hints to the editor.

Maybe it's a good thing for editors to line their birdcages with our MSs--their parrots might get them to change their minds about us!

[tlm]

With the ability to save the ms on the computer, it doesn't really make sense to go to the expense of having the ms returned.