In Search Of A Publisher To Look Over My Work

[inamuddle1]

I'm a very good writer, I write poetry and have done for as long as I can remember. I can write about anything but my favorite type of writing is erotic or funny poetry, I also enjoy putting poetry to music. I enjoy giving the reader a real visual experience and I can be very descript. This is the way I like to write. My writing has real character and I believe I have my own style.

I'm interested in someone reading some of my work. I would like to know what a professional writer or publisher thinks of my words. This has been a life long passion.

I would be interested in publishing. Writing a book, or having some of my work published in a book along with other poets works...

Does anyone have any advice, places I could write to regarding this.

[AB Editor]

Real advice:

If you'd like a dead-wood publisher to read it, you'll almost certainly need an agent. Find one of those first.

If you can't find an agent to take your work, then you'll need to make your work better. Are you involved in local literary clubs and writers groups? If not, you'll need to join them to get some honest feedback.

If you're happy to self publish and vanity publish, that's fine, but there's less legitimacy in it.

[boxtops]

Since the OP didn't like the critical comments (which she asked for) on her other thread, it may be one route for her, though. Editorial rejection is not a comfortable thing, been there, done that (and Ed, I mean publishing Ed rejection, not you :-)

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Arts-and-Literature/Question1219705-6.html

[naomi24]

Mine is 'real' advice too.

[Quizmonkey]

Woofgang, if you mean the question 'What's it to you...', obviously it's nothing to me. I clearly don't give two hoots if some talentless person is so deluded that they'll waste a life trying to achieve the unachievable. The original post was made to elicit advice/opinion: that's what I, and everyone else, has given. If you think the poster is too fragile to cope with the truth, then said poster shouldn't really be opening themselves up to public opinion, should they?

[woofgang]

Naomi and ed, (and others) your advice may have been honest but i don't think it was "snotty" . Quizmonkey's response however struck me as needlessly unpleasant which was why I commented.

[woofgang]

PS forgot to add that when i started typing, my response would have been directly under QM's but by the time I had finished, you two had snuck in.

[Quizmonkey]

Not 'needlessly unpleasant' just honest. It is far more 'pleasant' to be truthful (and to save a person time and heartache) than to give fake encouragement and false hope.

[woofgang]

"Anyone I hear saying things like "I'm a very good writer" or "Everyone I read my poems to really like them" (which contains one of your many grammatical errors) I wouldn't even give the time of day to. You are delusional. You don't know what 'writing' means. "

"I clearly don't give two hoots if some talentless person is so deluded that they'll waste a life trying to achieve the unachievable"

Taken from your posts. Opinionated, rude and yes needlessly unpleasant.

[ichkeria]

Quizmonster may be a bit abrupt, but within all that is a very good piece of advice:
Don't start off by telling a publisher "I'm a very good writer". If they're human that'll really get their backs up! And if they aren't human ... :-)