A Note on "Submissions" to My Website(s)
I never dreamed I’d have to write this, but since the same person has emailed me about this twice, here I go. I do not accept unsolicited content to post on my website. Any article, essay, blog, think piece, whatever you’d like to call it you send to me will not be read. In other words, as all the big publishers and production studios put it, “Unsolicited manuscripts will be returned unread,” assuming you’ve sent me a physical copy. If you’ve emailed me, I’ll just delete them without reading them. They’re not going up on any site I run.
Why am I being such a jerk, you ask? It’s simple – I don’t want to be sued by someone who says I promised them payment in the future for “free” content they sent me today. [See, for example, https://www.lawlawlandblog.com/2012/10/qa-why-are-unsolicited-submissions-policies-so-brutal-201210.html ].
That’s in addition, of course, to the obvious – I have no idea if your content is something with which I would agree, and finally, if your content’s so great, why not post it on your own website? You can get your own site literally for free (and the would-be contributor has her own site), and simply publicize your site. If I like your content, I’ll link to it (and maybe even tweet it), and you’ll get full credit for the article, since it will be on YOUR site.
I know that 99% of the people reading this have no intention of submitting anything for publication without my requesting it, but there’s always that obnoxious and/or oblivious 1%. Thanks for reading this!
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