Stupid Question

[urbpan]

How exactly does one go about pitching an idea to a book publisher? (How do I get my first book published?)

Comments

[wakarusa.livejournal.com]

was it NSF? :) maybe it's just me, but aren't those always clusterfucks from hell?

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Oh, the first of each and every kind has been a complete clusterfuck. My favorite was the NIH training grant. YUCK.

[wakarusa.livejournal.com]

OMG. I won't even do those.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Oh...it's a huge part of the reason that i quit my last job - not because of the grant, per se, but because I only had 10 days to get and compile all the info required I had to shut out all of my other bosses and as a result, they made up a physical schedule for my day. I said 'fuck this noise, i'm a big girl' and went and got another job.

They, of course, ended up getting the training grant. Did I mention it was a competing continuation? fuckers.

[wakarusa.livejournal.com]

!

freelance has its downsides, but at least none of my crazies are usually in the same room.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

At that time, I had 10 PIs as bosses and the training grant benefitted a bunch of them and I was doing it as a favor to the chief of the dept. They were bitches, glad I left.

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

"Anything done for the first time summons a daemon" -The Talmud.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

This is especially true of grant applications, even more so when you're applying for government money.